RIBA Concise Professional Services Contract 2020 : Conservation Architectural Services

The RIBA Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Conservation Architectural Services is suitable where the Architect/Consultant undertakes a commission for conservation architectural services for simple, non-complex, commercial projects of any value, in which the building works will be carried out using standard forms of building contract, such as the RIBA Concise Building Contract, the JCT Minor Works Building Contract or the JCT Intermediate Building Contract. The RIBA Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Conservation Architectural Services is suitable for commissions procured on the basis of a traditional form of building contract where tendering occurs at the end of Stage 4 of the RIBA Plan of Work (Technical Design). The RIBA Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Conservation Architectural Services is devised as an agreement between an Architect/Consultant and a business client or a public authority and is a 'construction contract' to which the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (HGCRA, also known as the Construction Act) applies.

Business clients include charities, religious organisations and not-for-profit bodies. The RIBA Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Conservation Architectural Services is not suitable for non-commercial work undertaken for a 'consumer' client, such as work done to the client's home, including renovations, extensions, maintenance and new buildings, if the client has elected to contract in their own name, i.e. not as a limited company or other legal entity, or where the property will be let.

A contract with a consumer client is subject to the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

The RIBA recommends the use of the RIBA Domestic Professional Services Contract 2020: Conservation Architectural Services for work undertaken for a consumer client.