Legal Liability for Built Environment Professionals
Virtual CPD Course | 8 – 9 May 2025


Legible for: 2 CPD Points – SAAMA/ECSAÂ |Â 1.6 CPD Credits – SACPCMP

Who is this course for?
This course will be useful for delegates who want to understand the liabilities under the law of contract and professional indemnities design liability when acting as a certifier, adjudicator or arbitrator.
This Course is Now Available in 2 Options
Live Session - Zoom Meeting
Duration: 2-Day (Virtual CPD Course)
Price: R5999 Per Delegate
This Course Includes:
- Course Manual
- CPD Certificate
Tailor Made In-House
Who should attend?
- Construction Health Safety Manager
- Health and Safety officers
- Health & Safety Representatives
- Construction Health and Safety Agent
- Risk Management Specialists
- Risk Assesors
- Construction Industry Professionals
- Candidates -in- training
- Quality Managers
- Construction & Project Managers
- Contractors
- Design Engineers, Engineers
- Local Government Groups
- Environmental Groups
- Community Groups
- Regulatory Agencies
- Stakeholders in the Construction
Course Outline
1. The legal framework and liability
2. The general principles of the Law of Contract
3. The Law of Delict
4. Liability under the consultant’s contract of mandate
or agency
5. Liability under professional laws and Statutory law
6. Consultants’ labilities under the consulting contract
templates
7. Consultants’ liabilities under the Construction
Contract
8. Best practice in documenting contracts using
standard templates
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Benefits of attending this Course
– Understand the engineering service consultants’
– Liabilities under the law of contract, as mandatary or agent
– Vicarious liability and professional indemnities design liability
– Liabilities when acting as a certifier, adjudicator or arbitrator
– Need to unravel, understand, and interpret contract documentation
– Need to do a legal risk assessment of their liabilities before binding themselves contractually.
Accreditation Details
This course is accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) with 2 CPD Points and by the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) with 1.6 CPD Credits.
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