I'm being charged for delays? Every question we answer on it, grouped by subject.
Liquidated damages, or LADs, are a fixed sum for each day or week you finish late, agreed in the contract before work starts.
Whether the clause is enforceable is a question for your solicitor, but it is rarely where a liquidated damages deduction is weakest.
Only as far as your subcontract allows: under a JCT subcontract, only the loss your late finish caused, counted from your extended completion date.
No, not from a sum already notified as due: to pay less than that, your main contractor must give a Pay Less Notice in time.
Not if your subcontract makes a certificate or notice of non-completion a condition of the charge, and many do.
It means your completion date has fallen away, so the delay damages rate cannot be charged and your main contractor must prove its loss.
An extension of time, or EOT, moves your completion date later for a delay your subcontract lists as grounds for more time.
Relevant Events are the causes of delay listed in a JCT subcontract that can get you an extension of time.
It depends on your subcontract: where the notice is a condition of an extension, a late one can lose you the extension.
No: Delay Damages Prevention covers deadlines and records, not delay analysis or programme advice.
Yes: we can pursue any part of the deduction that your documents and the arithmetic do not support.