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In this episode, Aspect Legal's Jelena Milanovic talks us through the general impacts of the pandemic on the construction industry, in particular pricing and construction contracts.  Jelena along with our host Joanna Oakey also drills into how supply chain shortages, pricing pressures and now natural disasters, are likely to impact the sector from a legal perspective. Importantly, we cover what construction businesses and suppliers can do to protect themselves from uncertainty.



















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Episode Highlights:







* General impacts of COVID-19 on the construction industry

* Legal impacts of supply chain shortages and pricing pressures

* What the pricing pressure environment looks like and how it will be felt by businesses in the building and construction industry?

* Further likely impacts caused by flooding in Qld and NSW

* Using legal protections in an uncertain environment



















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Joanna:

Hi, it's Joanna Oakey here and welcome back to talking law, a podcast proudly brought to you by our commercial legal practice aspect legal now we have another fabulous two-part series for you our listeners. And in this two-part series, we are talking with Aspect Legal's very own Jelena Milanovic, about construction contracts, and the general impacts of COVID-19 on the construction industry. Now, in this first half, which is part one of our two-part series, Jelena and I drill into supply chain shortages and pricing pressures, the further likely impacts caused by flooding in Queensland and New South Wales. And finally, we touch on how businesses in this industry can protect themselves from all of these upcoming uncertainties. This episode is a must listen episode, if you're involved in any way in the building and construction industry. So buckle in, here we go.

Jelena, a massive welcome onto talking law.

Jelena:

Thanks so much, Jo. It's so good to be part of it.

Joanna:

Well, I'm excited to have you on here, because we're talking about what I think is such an i...