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What does a quantity surveyor do?
What should I check before signing a contract?
Is a pay-when-paid clause allowed in my contract?
What does a back-to-back contract mean for a subcontractor?
Can I change the terms of a JCT or NEC contract before I sign?
What is a collateral warranty, and should I sign one?
What is a performance bond, and should I agree to one?
What is a main contractor's discount, and should I agree to it?
Should I sign my contract as a deed?
What is a time bar in a contract?
Can you review our contract before we sign it this week?
Costs and measurement
FAQs
- What does a quantity surveyor do?
- Can I withdraw my quote if prices rise before it is accepted?
- What is a price fluctuation clause in construction?
- What is the base date in a JCT contract?
- How are quantity surveyor fees agreed?
- What does a bill of quantities look like?
- What is a schedule of works and when do I need one?
- How much construction contingency should I allow?
Procurement and tendering
FAQs
- What does a quantity surveyor do?
- What should I check before signing a contract?
- Is a pay-when-paid clause allowed in my contract?
- What does a back-to-back contract mean for a subcontractor?
- Can I change the terms of a JCT or NEC contract before I sign?
- What is a collateral warranty, and should I sign one?
- What is a performance bond, and should I agree to one?
- What is a main contractor's discount, and should I agree to it?
- Should I sign my contract as a deed?
- Can you review our contract before we sign it this week?
- Can I withdraw my quote if prices rise before it is accepted?
- What is a price fluctuation clause in construction?
- What is the base date in a JCT contract?
- What is a JCT contract?
- What does a bill of quantities look like?
- What is a schedule of works and when do I need one?
Commercial management
FAQs
- What does a quantity surveyor do?
- What is a payment notice?
- Who can issue a payment notice?
- What must a payment notice include under the Construction Act?
- Can a payment notice show a negative valuation?
- What is the notified sum?
- What is a pay less notice?
- Who issues a pay less notice?
- What makes a pay less notice valid under the Construction Act?
- When is a pay less notice needed?
- How late can a pay less notice be served?
- Can an email be a valid pay less notice?
- What makes a payment application valid?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 50 work?
- What does the Price for Work Done to Date mean under NEC4 Options A and B?
- How do JCT pay less notices and payment notices work?
- How is the gross valuation for a JCT interim payment built up?
- How do I find the final date for a construction payment?
- What is the JCT payment timeline?
- What is the NEC4 payment timeline?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 51 work?
- How does NEC4 Option Y(UK)2 work?
- What is a variation order, and what counts as a variation?
- Is design development a variation?
- How is a variation valued in a construction contract?
- What are dayworks in construction, and when are they paid?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 section 5 work?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 3.14 work?
- Does a site instruction count as a variation?
- How are variations valued under a JCT contract?
- What is a provisional sum, and how is the work valued?
- What is a compensation event under NEC4?
- How long do I have to submit an NEC compensation event quotation?
- What should an NEC compensation event quotation contain?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1 mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(1) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(2) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(3) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(4) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(5) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(6) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(8) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(9) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(10) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(11) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(12) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(13) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(14) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(15) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(17) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(18) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(19) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(20) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(21) mean?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 15 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 61.3 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 61.4 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 62 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 63 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 64 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 66 work?
- What does Defined Cost mean under NEC4?
- What does the Fee mean under NEC4?
- What is an NEC early warning notice, and when must I give one?
- How do I notify a compensation event under NEC4?
- Is bad weather a compensation event under NEC4?
- What should a site diary actually say?
- Who on site should own the records?
- How do JCT fluctuation provisions (Options A, B and C) work?
- How does NEC Option X1 price adjustment for inflation work?
- What is a final account in construction?
- When should the final account be submitted?
- What if the contract says nothing about final accounts?
- What is retention in construction?
- When is retention released in construction?
- How do I request the release of retention?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 2.38 work?
- What is a defects liability period?
- What counts as contemporaneous evidence on a construction job?
- What is an NEC contract?
- How does the Construction Act payment cycle work?
- How are quantity surveyor fees agreed?
- How much construction contingency should I allow?
Contracts and agreements
FAQs
- What is a FIDIC contract?
- What should I check before signing a contract?
- Is a pay-when-paid clause allowed in my contract?
- What does a back-to-back contract mean for a subcontractor?
- Can I change the terms of a JCT or NEC contract before I sign?
- What is a collateral warranty, and should I sign one?
- What is a performance bond, and should I agree to one?
- What is a main contractor's discount, and should I agree to it?
- Should I sign my contract as a deed?
- What is a time bar in a contract?
- Can you review our contract before we sign it this week?
- We have already signed. Is it too late for a contract review?
- Will you tell us whether a clause we have signed is enforceable?
- Is a letter of intent legally binding?
- Is it safe to start work on a letter of intent?
- Can I adjudicate if I'm working on a letter of intent?
- Is a contract legally binding if it is not signed?
- Can I be paid more than the letter of intent cap?
- What is quantum meruit?
- The other party wants us on site next week on a letter of intent. Can you check it before we start?
- Our letter of intent expired months ago and we kept working. Can you still value the work?
- What is the Construction Act?
- What is the Scheme for Construction Contracts?
- What is a JCT contract?
- What is an NEC contract?
Payment and deductions
FAQs
- What does a quantity surveyor do?
- Does a vesting certificate entitle me to payment for off-site materials?
- What is a payment notice?
- Who can issue a payment notice?
- What must a payment notice include under the Construction Act?
- Can the payer re-issue its payment notice?
- Can a payment notice show a negative valuation?
- What is a default payment notice, and does it change the payment date?
- What is the notified sum?
- What is a pay less notice?
- Who issues a pay less notice?
- What makes a pay less notice valid under the Construction Act?
- What should a pay less notice look like?
- When is a pay less notice needed?
- How late can a pay less notice be served?
- Can the payer re-issue or withdraw its pay less notice?
- Can an email be a valid pay less notice?
- Can a payment notice be a pay less notice?
- Can they deduct money without a pay less notice?
- What makes a payment application valid?
- Can I resubmit a payment application after a payment notice?
- What is a smash and grab adjudication?
- What is a true value adjudication?
- How long does construction adjudication take?
- Is an adjudication decision final and binding?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 50 work?
- What does the Price for Work Done to Date mean under NEC4 Options A and B?
- How do JCT pay less notices and payment notices work?
- How is the gross valuation for a JCT interim payment built up?
- We have been underpaid once already. Do we need Payment evidence process setup as well as Underpayment recovery?
- What do you need from us to set up Payment evidence process setup?
- A pay less notice has just cut our payment. Can you check it before the final date for payment?
- Can you recover underpayments on payment cycles that closed months ago?
- How do I find the final date for a construction payment?
- Does the Construction Act apply to my contract?
- What payment rights does the Construction Act provide?
- Are pay when paid clauses enforceable?
- What is the JCT payment timeline?
- What is the NEC4 payment timeline?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 51 work?
- How does NEC4 Option Y(UK)2 work?
- What can I do if payment is late?
- Is it illegal not to pay for construction work?
- Can I charge interest when the payer pays late?
- What is the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act?
- Can I claim late payment compensation as well as interest?
- What do the 2026 late payment reforms change for construction payments?
- Can I suspend work for non-payment?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 4.13 work?
- Do both parties have to agree to adjudication?
- How much does construction adjudication cost?
- What happens after an adjudication decision?
- Can Payment timetable and notice process setup look at a contract before we sign it?
- Will Overdue payment recovery mean stopping work or going to adjudication?
- What is a contra-charge or back-charge in construction?
- Can they set off contra-charges against my final account?
- Do they have to let me fix a defect before charging me for it?
- Will Contra-charge prevention process setup stop the other party taking deductions?
- What do you need from us to answer the contra-charges already taken?
- What is the Construction Act?
- What is the Scheme for Construction Contracts?
- How does the Construction Act payment cycle work?
Changes and extra costs
FAQs
- What is a variation order, and what counts as a variation?
- Can I get paid for a variation with no written instruction?
- Is design development a variation?
- Can you vary a contract without a variation clause?
- Can I refuse to carry out a variation?
- How is a variation valued in a construction contract?
- What are dayworks in construction, and when are they paid?
- Can they omit work from my contract and give it to someone else?
- Can I lose a variation claim by notifying it late?
- What if my variations are only disputed at the final account?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 section 5 work?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 3.14 work?
- Does a site instruction count as a variation?
- How are variations valued under a JCT contract?
- What is a provisional sum, and how is the work valued?
- What should a variation claim letter say?
- Once Variation management setup is set up, who confirms the instructions on our job, you or us?
- Some of our variations were never confirmed in writing. What does Variation Recovery do with them?
- What is a compensation event under NEC4?
- What happens if I miss the 8 week deadline for a compensation event?
- How long do I have to submit an NEC compensation event quotation?
- What should an NEC compensation event quotation contain?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1 mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(1) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(2) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(3) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(4) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(5) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(6) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(8) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(9) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(10) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(11) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(12) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(13) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(14) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(15) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(17) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(18) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(19) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(20) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(21) mean?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 15 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 61.3 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 61.4 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 62 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 63 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 64 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 66 work?
- What does Defined Cost mean under NEC4?
- What does the Fee mean under NEC4?
- What is an NEC early warning notice, and when must I give one?
- How do I notify a compensation event under NEC4?
- Is a compensation event deemed accepted if nobody replies?
- Is bad weather a compensation event under NEC4?
- Will NEC compensation-event process setup work to our amended periods or the standard NEC ones?
- Will you tell us which of our refused compensation events are not worth pressing?
- Can I claim for price rises on a fixed-price contract?
- How do JCT fluctuation provisions (Options A, B and C) work?
- How does NEC Option X1 price adjustment for inflation work?
- Can I recover price rises caused by the other party's delay?
- Can I withdraw my quote if prices rise before it is accepted?
- What is a price fluctuation clause in construction?
- What is the base date in a JCT contract?
- We've already signed the contract. Can Price-rise risk controls setup still help on this job?
- What do you need from us to recover a price rise?
Delay and disruption
FAQs
- How is an extension of time calculated?
- What is measured-mile analysis in a construction disruption claim?
- What is concurrent delay, and can I still claim time or money?
- Can I claim the cost of accelerating my contract works?
- What records help prove delay and disruption?
- Which records actually decide delay and disruption claims?
- What should a site diary actually say?
- Who on site should own the records?
- We kept almost no records. Is the claim dead?
- What is quantum in a delay and disruption claim?
- Where do delay and disruption claim valuations usually fail?
- What records do I need for a loss and expense claim?
- What does a loss and expense claim look like?
- How are head office overheads claimed? Hudson, Emden and Eichleay
- Who can put a value on my delay and disruption claim?
- Do you cover delay analysis as well?
- What is a Relevant Matter under JCT?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 4.20 work?
- What does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 4.22 mean?
- Our job is already running late. Can you still set up Delay and disruption records setup on it?
- Our delay records are patchy. Will you still take on our claim?
- Are liquidated damages enforceable?
- Can the other party pass its liquidated damages down to me?
- Can they take liquidated damages without a pay less notice?
- What are liquidated damages (LADs) in a contract?
- Can the other party take delay damages without a non-completion certificate?
- What does 'time at large' mean for my delay damages?
- What is an extension of time (EOT) in a contract?
- What are the Relevant Events in a JCT contract?
- What happens if I miss the deadline for a delay notice?
- Does Completion-date and notice tracking setup include the delay analysis for our extension of time?
- Can you get back delay damages the other party has already deducted?
Completion and contract endings
FAQs
- What does a quantity surveyor do?
- Why do final accounts settle so low?
- Is adjudication worth it for a small final account dispute?
- What is a final account in construction?
- When should the final account be submitted?
- What if the contract says nothing about final accounts?
- Can a final certificate make a low final account binding?
- Do I have to accept their final account assessment?
- Can a final account dispute go to adjudication?
- Should I sign a full and final settlement of my final account?
- What should a final account dispute letter say?
- What can I do if the other party ignores my final account?
- Our job is nearly finished. Is it too late for Final account close-out process setup?
- If you run our final account dispute, who decides whether to settle?
- What is a retention bond, and can it replace cash retention?
- What is retention in construction?
- When is retention released in construction?
- How do I request the release of retention?
- Can they hold my retention until the employer releases theirs?
- How long do I have to recover old retention?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 2.38 work?
- What is a defects liability period?
- Are cash retentions in construction being banned?
- Is it too late for you to recover retention on jobs we finished years ago?
- We're already recovering old retention. Do we need Retention tracking and release process setup as well?
- Can the other party terminate my contract?
- What happens to my money when my contract is terminated?
- Do I have to pay their cost to complete?
- What if my contract was wrongfully terminated?
- What does termination for convenience mean for my contract?
- Can I terminate my contract if the other party does not pay?
- We have just been sent a default notice. Is it too late for Termination risk review and escalation setup?
- We have been terminated on one job already. Do we need Termination risk review and escalation setup as well?
- Our contract was terminated this week. What do you need from us first?
- Will you tell us whether our contract was validly terminated?
- What practical completion means for your money
- When a contract ends or a contractor becomes insolvent
Dispute resolution and defence
FAQs
- What are construction claims, and which service do I need?
- When does a claim against me become a dispute?
- What does a construction claims consultant do?
- A letter of claim has arrived under the construction pre-action protocol. What do I do?
- What counts as contemporaneous evidence on a construction job?
- Do photos and WhatsApp messages count as evidence against a claim from the other party?
- Before you answer a claim for us, how do you check for conflicts of interest?
- No claim has been made against us yet. What would Claim risk review and evidence process setup set up?
- We have already had one claim made against us. Do we need Claim risk review and evidence process setup as well?
- An adjudication has been started against us. What does Claim assessment and response do first?
- What do you need from us to answer a counterclaim against our account?
- What is the Construction Act?
- What is the Scheme for Construction Contracts?
- What is a FIDIC contract?
- What does a quantity surveyor do?
- What should I check before signing a contract?
- Is a pay-when-paid clause allowed in my contract?
- What does a back-to-back contract mean for a subcontractor?
- Can I change the terms of a JCT or NEC contract before I sign?
- What is a collateral warranty, and should I sign one?
- What is a performance bond, and should I agree to one?
- What is a main contractor's discount, and should I agree to it?
- Should I sign my contract as a deed?
- What is a time bar in a contract?
- Can you review our contract before we sign it this week?
- We have already signed. Is it too late for a contract review?
- Will you tell us whether a clause we have signed is enforceable?
- Is a letter of intent legally binding?
- Is it safe to start work on a letter of intent?
- Can I adjudicate if I'm working on a letter of intent?
- Is a contract legally binding if it is not signed?
- Can I be paid more than the letter of intent cap?
- What is quantum meruit?
- The other party wants us on site next week on a letter of intent. Can you check it before we start?
- Our letter of intent expired months ago and we kept working. Can you still value the work?
- Does a vesting certificate entitle me to payment for off-site materials?
- What is a payment notice?
- Who can issue a payment notice?
- What must a payment notice include under the Construction Act?
- Can the payer re-issue its payment notice?
- Can a payment notice show a negative valuation?
- What is a default payment notice, and does it change the payment date?
- What is the notified sum?
- What is a pay less notice?
- Who issues a pay less notice?
- What makes a pay less notice valid under the Construction Act?
- What should a pay less notice look like?
- When is a pay less notice needed?
- How late can a pay less notice be served?
- Can the payer re-issue or withdraw its pay less notice?
- Can an email be a valid pay less notice?
- Can a payment notice be a pay less notice?
- Can they deduct money without a pay less notice?
- What makes a payment application valid?
- Can I resubmit a payment application after a payment notice?
- What is a smash and grab adjudication?
- What is a true value adjudication?
- How long does construction adjudication take?
- Is an adjudication decision final and binding?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 50 work?
- What does the Price for Work Done to Date mean under NEC4 Options A and B?
- How do JCT pay less notices and payment notices work?
- How is the gross valuation for a JCT interim payment built up?
- We have been underpaid once already. Do we need Payment evidence process setup as well as Underpayment recovery?
- What do you need from us to set up Payment evidence process setup?
- A pay less notice has just cut our payment. Can you check it before the final date for payment?
- Can you recover underpayments on payment cycles that closed months ago?
- How do I find the final date for a construction payment?
- Does the Construction Act apply to my contract?
- What payment rights does the Construction Act provide?
- Are pay when paid clauses enforceable?
- What is the JCT payment timeline?
- What is the NEC4 payment timeline?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 51 work?
- How does NEC4 Option Y(UK)2 work?
- What can I do if payment is late?
- Is it illegal not to pay for construction work?
- Can I charge interest when the payer pays late?
- What is the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act?
- Can I claim late payment compensation as well as interest?
- What do the 2026 late payment reforms change for construction payments?
- Can I suspend work for non-payment?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 4.13 work?
- Do both parties have to agree to adjudication?
- How much does construction adjudication cost?
- What happens after an adjudication decision?
- Can Payment timetable and notice process setup look at a contract before we sign it?
- Will Overdue payment recovery mean stopping work or going to adjudication?
- What is a variation order, and what counts as a variation?
- Can I get paid for a variation with no written instruction?
- Is design development a variation?
- Can you vary a contract without a variation clause?
- Can I refuse to carry out a variation?
- How is a variation valued in a construction contract?
- What are dayworks in construction, and when are they paid?
- Can they omit work from my contract and give it to someone else?
- Can I lose a variation claim by notifying it late?
- What if my variations are only disputed at the final account?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 section 5 work?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 3.14 work?
- Does a site instruction count as a variation?
- How are variations valued under a JCT contract?
- What is a provisional sum, and how is the work valued?
- What should a variation claim letter say?
- Once Variation management setup is set up, who confirms the instructions on our job, you or us?
- Some of our variations were never confirmed in writing. What does Variation Recovery do with them?
- What is a compensation event under NEC4?
- What happens if I miss the 8 week deadline for a compensation event?
- How long do I have to submit an NEC compensation event quotation?
- What should an NEC compensation event quotation contain?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1 mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(1) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(2) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(3) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(4) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(5) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(6) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(8) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(9) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(10) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(11) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(12) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(13) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(14) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(15) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(17) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(18) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(19) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(20) mean?
- What does NEC4 ECC clause 60.1(21) mean?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 15 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 61.3 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 61.4 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 62 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 63 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 64 work?
- How does NEC4 ECC clause 66 work?
- What does Defined Cost mean under NEC4?
- What does the Fee mean under NEC4?
- What is an NEC early warning notice, and when must I give one?
- How do I notify a compensation event under NEC4?
- Is a compensation event deemed accepted if nobody replies?
- Is bad weather a compensation event under NEC4?
- Will NEC compensation-event process setup work to our amended periods or the standard NEC ones?
- Will you tell us which of our refused compensation events are not worth pressing?
- How is an extension of time calculated?
- What is measured-mile analysis in a construction disruption claim?
- What is concurrent delay, and can I still claim time or money?
- Can I claim the cost of accelerating my contract works?
- What records help prove delay and disruption?
- Which records actually decide delay and disruption claims?
- What should a site diary actually say?
- Who on site should own the records?
- We kept almost no records. Is the claim dead?
- What is quantum in a delay and disruption claim?
- Where do delay and disruption claim valuations usually fail?
- What records do I need for a loss and expense claim?
- What does a loss and expense claim look like?
- How are head office overheads claimed? Hudson, Emden and Eichleay
- Who can put a value on my delay and disruption claim?
- Do you cover delay analysis as well?
- What is a Relevant Matter under JCT?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 4.20 work?
- What does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 4.22 mean?
- Our job is already running late. Can you still set up Delay and disruption records setup on it?
- Our delay records are patchy. Will you still take on our claim?
- Can I claim for price rises on a fixed-price contract?
- How do JCT fluctuation provisions (Options A, B and C) work?
- How does NEC Option X1 price adjustment for inflation work?
- Can I recover price rises caused by the other party's delay?
- Can I withdraw my quote if prices rise before it is accepted?
- What is a price fluctuation clause in construction?
- What is the base date in a JCT contract?
- We've already signed the contract. Can Price-rise risk controls setup still help on this job?
- What do you need from us to recover a price rise?
- What is a contra-charge or back-charge in construction?
- Can they set off contra-charges against my final account?
- Do they have to let me fix a defect before charging me for it?
- Will Contra-charge prevention process setup stop the other party taking deductions?
- What do you need from us to answer the contra-charges already taken?
- Are liquidated damages enforceable?
- Can the other party pass its liquidated damages down to me?
- Can they take liquidated damages without a pay less notice?
- What are liquidated damages (LADs) in a contract?
- Can the other party take delay damages without a non-completion certificate?
- What does 'time at large' mean for my delay damages?
- What is an extension of time (EOT) in a contract?
- What are the Relevant Events in a JCT contract?
- What happens if I miss the deadline for a delay notice?
- Does Completion-date and notice tracking setup include the delay analysis for our extension of time?
- Can you get back delay damages the other party has already deducted?
- Why do final accounts settle so low?
- Is adjudication worth it for a small final account dispute?
- What is a final account in construction?
- When should the final account be submitted?
- What if the contract says nothing about final accounts?
- Can a final certificate make a low final account binding?
- Do I have to accept their final account assessment?
- Can a final account dispute go to adjudication?
- Should I sign a full and final settlement of my final account?
- What should a final account dispute letter say?
- What can I do if the other party ignores my final account?
- Our job is nearly finished. Is it too late for Final account close-out process setup?
- If you run our final account dispute, who decides whether to settle?
- What is a retention bond, and can it replace cash retention?
- What is retention in construction?
- When is retention released in construction?
- How do I request the release of retention?
- Can they hold my retention until the employer releases theirs?
- How long do I have to recover old retention?
- How does JCT SBC/Q 2016 clause 2.38 work?
- What is a defects liability period?
- Are cash retentions in construction being banned?
- Is it too late for you to recover retention on jobs we finished years ago?
- We're already recovering old retention. Do we need Retention tracking and release process setup as well?
- What are construction claims, and which service do I need?
- When does a claim against me become a dispute?
- What does a construction claims consultant do?
- A letter of claim has arrived under the construction pre-action protocol. What do I do?
- What counts as contemporaneous evidence on a construction job?
- Do photos and WhatsApp messages count as evidence against a claim from the other party?
- Before you answer a claim for us, how do you check for conflicts of interest?
- No claim has been made against us yet. What would Claim risk review and evidence process setup set up?
- We have already had one claim made against us. Do we need Claim risk review and evidence process setup as well?
- An adjudication has been started against us. What does Claim assessment and response do first?
- What do you need from us to answer a counterclaim against our account?
- Can the other party terminate my contract?
- What happens to my money when my contract is terminated?
- Do I have to pay their cost to complete?
- What if my contract was wrongfully terminated?
- What does termination for convenience mean for my contract?
- Can I terminate my contract if the other party does not pay?
- We have just been sent a default notice. Is it too late for Termination risk review and escalation setup?
- We have been terminated on one job already. Do we need Termination risk review and escalation setup as well?
- Our contract was terminated this week. What do you need from us first?
- Will you tell us whether our contract was validly terminated?
- What is the Construction Act?
- What is the Scheme for Construction Contracts?
- What is a JCT contract?
- What is an NEC contract?
- What practical completion means for your money
- How does the Construction Act payment cycle work?
- When a contract ends or a contractor becomes insolvent
- How are quantity surveyor fees agreed?
- What does a bill of quantities look like?
- What is a schedule of works and when do I need one?
- How much construction contingency should I allow?
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