Allied Contracting Co. v. Bennett

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

We are concerned here with a construction contract purporting to make all questions “relative to the execution of the work” to be performed by the contractor under the contract, subject to the “final and conclusive” decision of the project engineer hired by the owner. The legal question to be decided is whether those provisions make such questions subject to arbitration under the terms of the Uniform Arbitration Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 10, par. 101 et seq.). We conclude that they do not and affirm the order of the circuit court…