Do you cover delay analysis as well?
No: we value what a period of delay cost you, and the period itself comes from whoever assesses time.
Updated: . By Jack Butler-Kettle, Construction Claims Consultant.
The answer
We do not do delay analysis or programme work, and we do not decide whether you are owed time. A prolongation head, the extra cost of being on site for longer, may need programme findings first. It may instead need agreed project facts or another specialist's input before its period can be used. Even once a period is adopted, its costs still need checking. We check that each cost was caused by the delay, has a basis in your subcontract and is not claimed twice. The valuation looks at the resources affected, the rates, any mitigation, any credits and any amounts claimed elsewhere. Where the time or the legal position is not settled, that money head is shown as conditional.
Example
Illustrative example. The scenario and figures are invented.
The facts
A steelwork subcontractor is looking at a 12-week period and records cabin, supervision, small tools and welfare costs. Whether those weeks come from one event or several is a programme question, not a money one.
What happens
- A programme specialist puts eight weeks down to one claimed cause and four weeks to other causes. The money schedule does not decide that split.
- The valuation tests the contract basis, the resources affected, mitigation, credits and overlap for the period adopted.
- If the period adopted changes, the schedule is revisited.
The outcome
The money schedule values the period adopted on the basis it has tested. Multiplying the 12 weeks by the recorded costs gives no automatic answer.
To have the cost of an adopted period valued from your own records, see our Delay & Disruption Claim service.