Our job is already running late. Can you still set up Delay & Disruption Loss Prevention on it?
Yes: we check every open event on day one, and any notice already due is raised with you that day.
Updated: . By Jack Butler-Kettle, Construction Claims Consultant.
The answer
We start from your subcontract. We map the events that carry time or money, the notice each one needs and the records it expects. The open events are checked against that map. Then the routine is built into the diary, timesheets and allocation sheets your people already use. Your team runs it for a live month, with us alongside. At the end of that month we check it, and close any gaps that can still be closed while memories are fresh. Any record rebuilt after the event shows the date it was made and its sources. It is never passed off as a record made at the time. What the delay has already cost is a separate job. Delay & Disruption Claim values it from the records you have and pursues it with your main contractor.
Example
Illustrative example. The scenario and figures are invented.
The facts
A cladding subcontractor is four months into a job that is already six weeks behind. There is no event log, and the diary says delayed by others.
What happens
- The map of the subcontract's events, notices and records is agreed in the first week.
- The open events are checked against it. One late drawing issue still has four days left on its notice period, so that notice is raised the same day.
- The allocation sheets gain an area column and a cause column, and the site team runs the routine for a live month.
- The month-end check finds two diary days missing. The foreman writes them up that week, dated as later work.
The outcome
The routine is running on the live job and the notice went in on time. The cost of the six weeks already lost goes to a separate recovery.
To have the routine set up on the job you are running now, see our Delay & Disruption Loss Prevention service.