18.7  Defects [Non-HRA and New Build Projects]

The Contractor accepts entire responsibility (including any financial or other consequences which result whether directly or indirectly) for the ascertainment of and dealing with any Defect in any of the Dwellings, or any part of them, or anything installed in the Dwellings attributable to:

18.7.1  defective design;

18.7.2  defective workmanship or defective materials, plant or machinery used in such construction having regard to Good Industry Practice and to appropriate British standards and codes of practice current at the date of construction of the Dwelling;

18.7.3  defective installation of anything in or on the Dwellings;

18.7.4  defective preparation of the site on which the Dwelling is constructed; or

18.7.5  defects brought about by adverse ground conditions or by reason of subsidence, water table change or any other change to ground conditions.]