Abstract
The French new warranty system of building which was reformed by the law on the 4th January 1978 and executed on the 1st January 1979 is composed of three very characteristic subsystem; liability system, inspection system and insurance one, which are expected to give a solution to the problems of the old system reported previously. The objective of the study reported herein is to examine the characteristics of the liability system and inspection one in the new system. On the insurance system, the author will report in the part 3. The principal characteristics of the new system are summarised as follows; 1) On the liability system, a) the ten years liability is applied restrictedly to damages which injure the apptitude of use or the solidity of building, b) the two years guarantee is applied to the other defects of building in consideration of the harmonization with the industrialization of building, c) the producer, vendor and importer of industrialized building elements bear the joint liability with the contructor, d) the liability of constructor to make good all disorders which appear in one year after the reception of building is legislated, though it depended on a contruct in the old system, and e) the reception of building is defined in detail by the law. 2) On the inspection system, a) the inspection is requested by the orderer of building though by the architect or the contructor in the old system, b) the inspection intervenes in all process of building, from design to execution, by the request in order to prevent mainly the probable defects and damages affecting the solidity or the safty of building, c) the inspection hs indispensable in the construction of certain buildings, d) the inspector must be approved by the government, e) the inspector is prohibited to hold also the business of design, execution or estimation, and f) the liability of inspector is legislated.
