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Practical Completion, Defects Liability and Rectification Periods: What Actually Triggers Each One

Flat editorial illustration of a quantity surveyor with a clipboard inspecting snagging tags in a newly completed building, with a calendar marking the defects period, in navy and amber tones

Ask three people on a project when the job was “finished” and you’ll often get three dates: the day the client moved in, the day liquidated damages stopped, and the day the last snag was signed off. On most standard forms those don’t share the same trigger. Practical completion, the rectification (or defects liability) period,Continue reading “Practical Completion, Defects Liability and Rectification Periods: What Actually Triggers Each One”