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We instructed a search and found no Defect

Client side: Defects

The Supervisor had the slab lifted and there was nothing wrong with it. What happens now?

Where the contract stands

It is normally a compensation event under 60.1(10), with the instruction to search at 43.1 in NEC4 (42.1 in NEC3). The main exception is where the search was only needed because too little notice was given of work that blocked a required test or inspection.

Read the guide: Search found no Defect

This is our plain-English summary, not legal advice. Your own contract, including any Z clauses, decides.

In Contract Status, step by step

  1. Instruct the search on its register

    Choose + Add on Instructions to Search: what you are looking for, where, your reasons and when you want the findings. Only your side has the button.

    Instruction to search IS-0002, closed, with the instruction, reasons for the search and the findings reported by the contractor

    IS-0002: the slab rocked, and the search found a loose packer, not a Defect.

  2. Decide the outcome

    After the Contractor reports, you choose: Notify the Defect, Notify the compensation event, which opens filled in with the clause from your library, or record why it is not one.

    The Compensation Event Register including CE-0008, named after the search that found no Defect

    CE-0008 was raised from the search, and carries its name.

  3. See it on the activity feed

    The instruction, the findings and the decision are each dated and named.

    The Contract Activity feed showing search instructed, findings reported and an outcome decided

    The sample account also has a search where the notice was too late, so no event followed.

All screens are from the upgraded app, using a fictional water company, Kestrel Valley Water, and its made-up contractors.

What happens next on the other side

The Contractor reports findings on the record and sees your decision. If you notify the event, they quote on it in the usual way. The fictional account shows each outcome: Defect found, compensation event, and not a compensation event.

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