Guidance on Specific Clauses Schedules for TradeBox Construction Contracts
- TradeBox Australia
- May 1, 2023
- 3 min read
Updated: Sep 28
Latest update 28/09/2025 | Last update 02/08/2023 | First published 30/07/2022
This guidance was provided to TradeBox Australia by Aitchison Reid Building and Construction Lawyers (the lawyers). Liability limited by a scheme approved under professional standards legislation. This guidance is not legal advice.
You can better fit your TradeBox Construction Contract to your trade business, by adding extra Construction Specific Clauses Schedules that have terms to serve your business. Not sure what Queensland Construction Specific Clauses Schedules to pick for your business? Here's some guidance on the schedules from the lawyers. Construction Specific Clauses Schedules for use in Queensland are special terms that can be added to the general Construction Contract in your TradeBox Focus Construction and TradeBox Ultimate Construction subscriptions.
From 1 September 2025, TradeBox is rolling out to its existing and new customers the Construction Contract, which is a replacement of its earlier version, the Commercial Trade Terms.
Construction Specific Clauses Schedules
The following Construction Specific Clauses Schedules are available and we give you a summary of what is included in each.
Construction Plant
What's included?
Construction plant you take to site (including your obligations, what you will use the construction plant for and if the someone interferes or tampers or uses the construction plant)
Construction plant provided to you to use on site
Covers both hired and owned construction plant
Who would use this schedule?
If you take construction plant to site or you use construction plant on site provided by the payer
This schedule of special clauses is designed primarily for commercial building sites
Installation of Supplied Building Products
What's included?
This clause protects you if the other party supplies any materials
Covers your obligations under the non-conforming building product legislation
Provides a process that the other party must follow if you are to install supplied building products
Who would use this schedule?
If the other party provides any building products for the job that you install
Material Price Increases
What's included?
The trade schedule provides a process for you to increase the contract price if the contract is agreed over 61 days before the start date. The schedule includes clauses on:
Notifying the commercial client of the increase
The time frames for the commercial client to respond and the effect on the start date
What happens when you agree an increase
The commercial client requesting further information
If the commercial client rejects the increase to the total price
Termination of the contract if no agreement can be made
If a party proposes a compromise and the time frames for agreement
Personal Property Securities Register
What's included?
Detailed clauses relating to the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (PPSA)
Creates a security interest in your favour for the goods and equipment delivered to site for the purpose of the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR)
Allows you to seize the goods from site if you are not paid
Please note:
PPSR registrations will still need to be made to enforce the security
Once the materials are fixed to the building or land they are no longer goods and the PPSR registration may no longer be effective
Who would use this schedule?
If you leave any goods or equipment on site
Please note, that this clause is only the first step in using the protections under the PPSA, you will also need to register the goods and equipment on the PPSR
PPSR registration is not a service TradeBox provides
Variable Amounts
What's included?
Provides how prime cost items and provisional sums are to be calculated once the work has been carried out
Provides definitions of prime cost and provisional sum items
Who would use this schedule?
If you use prime cost items or provisional sums in your quotes
