{"id":3112,"date":"2026-07-31T07:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/?page_id=3112"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:29:24","slug":"construction-law-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/construction-law-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Law in Thailand: Contracts and Disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A client called us from Phuket last year. His villa was 70% built. The contractor had stopped work. He was demanding an extra THB 4 million for “variations” nobody had signed off. He also held the building permit in his own company name. Our client had paid 80% of the contract price. He had no retention, no performance bond, and a two-page contract in Thai he had never had translated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is not unusual. Construction law in Thailand is not hostile to foreign developers. It is just unforgiving of people who assume it works like home. Thailand has no construction-specific statute, no adjudication regime, and no specialist construction court. Your project sits on general contract rules written in 1925 plus a public safety statute from 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This guide walks through what actually governs your build: the hire of work provisions of the Civil and Commercial Code, the Building Control Act B.E. 2522, the ownership limits under the Foreign Business Act, and the three routes a dispute can take. We cite the sections. We cite real Supreme Court decisions. And we tell you where the traps are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What this guide covers<\/p>\n\n\n\n