Robert J GemmellOct 14, 202017 minDD19: Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – approaches to assess a contractor’s financial...Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – approaches to assess a contractor’s financial entitlement due to compensable delay
Robert J GemmellJul 26, 202011 minDD17: Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – the applicable period and duration of delay for... Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – the applicable period and duration of delay for the assessment of delay costs Introduction My...
Robert J GemmellJul 20, 202012 minDD16: Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – assessment on a basis other than cost – another...Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – assessment on a basis other than cost – another case law scenario Introduction My last article,...
Robert J GemmellJul 6, 20209 minDD15: Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – a case law scenarioIntroduction My last article, DD14, examined the financial assessment of delayed preliminaries based on cost. I emphasised in DD14 that...
Robert J GemmellJun 18, 20206 minDD14: Quantifying delay costs – preliminaries – assessment based on costIntroduction My last article, DD13, examined the impact of delay on direct and indirect labour. As a result of delay, a contractor may...
Robert J GemmellMay 10, 20207 minDD13: Quantifying delay costs –labour Introduction My last article, DD12, provided a brief introduction to quantifying delay costs. That article touched on whether the claim...
Robert J GemmellApr 1, 20206 minDD12: Quantifying delay costs – an introductionIntroduction Generally, it is the contractor who claims delay costs from the employer due to delay which is an employer-risk delay,[1]...
Robert J GemmellMar 29, 20207 minDD11: Concurrent Delay and the AS FormsIntroduction To date, I have written four articles on concurrent delay. The first provided an overview of concurrent delay (DD07), the...
Robert J GemmellMar 28, 20208 minDD10: Approaches to assess contributory causes of delay and additional costtroduction To date, I have written three articles on concurrent delay. The first provided an overview (DD07), the second identified what...
Robert J GemmellMar 27, 20207 minDD09: Concurrent delay and the prevention principleIntroduction This article looks at the interrelationship between the ‘prevention principle’ and concurrent delay. As set out in my...
Robert J GemmellMar 26, 20205 minDD08: Concurrent delay: it is not parallelism or pacingIntroduction My previous article on concurrent delay briefly explored what concurrent delay is. To recap, the concurrent delay scenarios...
Robert J GemmellMar 3, 20209 minDD07: What is concurrent delay? An overviewIntroduction My previous article DD06 provided an overview of the different types of delay that can occur on construction projects,...
Robert J GemmellFeb 16, 20204 minDD06: Construction project delays 101 – plus concurrency!Introduction There are several different types of delay that can occur during the progress of the works on a construction project, each...
Robert J GemmellFeb 9, 20206 minDD05: Float: what is float, who owns the float and how is float different to contingency?What is float? The Society of Construction Law Protocol second edition 2017, (“SCL Protocol”) defines float as the “time available for an...
Robert J GemmellFeb 2, 20207 minDD04: ‘Prevention’ causing ‘time at large’: what does this all mean?Introduction “Time at large” is a common law principle which means that the contract date for completion becomes ineffective. The...
Robert J GemmellJan 29, 20207 minDD03: Comply with the notice provisions in the contract, or else…Introduction My first two articles covered why it is necessary to distinguish between delay and disruption and what that distinction is...
Robert J GemmellJan 28, 20205 minDD02: A global claim is doomed to fail, unless…Introduction A contractor may decide to claim the net difference between actual and planned costs and allege that the difference was...
Robert J GemmellJan 27, 20204 minDD01: Why is it necessary to distinguish between delay and disruption? What’s the distinction?Introduction Delay and disruption are endemic in the construction industry and lead to time and cost overruns. It is therefore essential...