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Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – approaches to assess a contractor’s financial entitlement due to compensable delay

Introduction My last article, DD17 provided a case law scenario based on Thiess Watkins White v Commonwealth of Australia[1] which...

Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – the applicable period and duration of delay for the assessment of delay costs Introduction My...

Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – assessment on a basis other than cost – another case law scenario Introduction My last article,...

Introduction My last article, DD14, examined the financial assessment of delayed preliminaries based on cost. I emphasised in DD14 that...

Introduction My last article, DD13, examined the impact of delay on direct and indirect labour. As a result of delay, a contractor may...

Introduction My last article, DD12, provided a brief introduction to quantifying delay costs. That article touched on whether the claim...

Introduction Generally, it is the contractor who claims delay costs from the employer due to delay which is an employer-risk delay,[1]...

Introduction To date, I have written four articles on concurrent delay. The first provided an overview of concurrent delay (DD07), the...

troduction To date, I have written three articles on concurrent delay. The first provided an overview (DD07), the second identified what...

Introduction This article looks at the interrelationship between the ‘prevention principle’ and concurrent delay. As set out in my...

Introduction My previous article on concurrent delay briefly explored what concurrent delay is. To recap, the concurrent delay scenarios...

Introduction My previous article DD06 provided an overview of the different types of delay that can occur on construction projects,...

Introduction There are several different types of delay that can occur during the progress of the works on a construction project, each...

What is float? The Society of Construction Law Protocol second edition 2017, (“SCL Protocol”) defines float as the “time available for an...

Introduction “Time at large” is a common law principle which means that the contract date for completion becomes ineffective. The...

Introduction My first two articles covered why it is necessary to distinguish between delay and disruption and what that distinction is...

Introduction A contractor may decide to claim the net difference between actual and planned costs and allege that the difference was...

Introduction Delay and disruption are endemic in the construction industry and lead to time and cost overruns. It is therefore essential...