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ASSOCIATIONS 15 Training on JBCC building contracts JBCC comprises nine constituents that represent the construction industry (owners and developers, contractors, subcontractors, and related professions), whose members volunteer their services and knowledge to draft building contracts containing an equitable distribution of contractual risk. The JBCC supplies these agreement documents to all users through the constituents’ regional offices, and offers short, intensive training courses on the appropriate application of these agreements throughout the subcontinent. Uwe Putlitz, CEO of JBCC, conducts the one-day training workshops, which earns delegates the appropriate continuing professional development (CPD) credit. www.plumbingafrica.co.za The training on the “Principal Building Agreement and Nominated/Selected Subcontract Agreement” for the second semester of 2018 will take place on: • 15 August: Garden Court, East London • 16 August: The Beach Hotel, Marine Drive, Port Elizabeth • 5 September: The Country Club Johannesburg, Auckland Park • 12 September: Sports Science Institute of South Africa, Cape Town • 3 October: Bytes Conference Centre, Halfway Gardens, Midrand; and • 14 November: 18 Burlington B&B and Conference Venue, Durban. The Joint Building Contracts Committee (JBCC) has announced the dates of its training workshops for the second half of 2018. Sunset over a building site. For more information, visit www.jbcc.co.za. August 2018 Volume 24 I Number 6