Delays and disruption are costing me? Every question we answer on it, grouped by subject.
Keep a site diary, allocation sheets, dated photos and a log of instructions, notices, payments and deliveries, set up to suit your subcontract.
The records that count are the ones that reliably show the point being tested.
Record what you saw: who was there, where they worked, what happened, when it started and ended, and what the team did instead.
Name one person responsible for each record, plus a deputy, and note who else feeds into it.
Not necessarily: a thin file does not settle what the claim is worth or whether it can succeed.
Quantum is the money side of a claim: the amount worked out on the valuation basis that applies.
A loss and expense claim is a priced schedule of the extra cost an event caused you, with each head tied to its records.
You need records of the event, the work it affected, the resources used and the cost, with each linked to the others.
From your actual records first, with a formula such as Hudson, Emden or Eichleay only where the records cannot show the loss directly.
They usually fail on quantities, rates, how costs are split, arithmetic, double counting or the valuation basis, so test each one.
A claims consultant or quantity surveyor values it from your records, while a programming expert assesses the time and your solicitor the legal questions.
A Relevant Matter is a listed event on the employer's side that gives the contractor the right to recover the loss and expense it causes.
Clause 4.20 is the JCT loss and expense clause: the Contractor recovers direct loss and expense when a Relevant Matter materially affects regular progress.
Clause 4.22 lists the Relevant Matters: the only events for which loss and expense can be recovered under clause 4.20.
Yes: we check every open event on day one, and any notice already due is raised with you that day.
Yes: you do not need a tidy file to start, so send the records as they stand, gaps and all.
No: we value what a period of delay cost you, and the period itself comes from whoever assesses time.