Certificate in Delay Claims and Analysis

Explore delay and disruption in construction under Fidic, including delay to completion and the distribution of delays across project components. Examine consequences such as liquidated damages and potential compensation.

Explore employee delay, contractor delay, and neutral delays, and the purpose of extension of time clauses to allocate risk and address concurrent delays on the critical path.

Learn to apply prospective and retrospective delay analysis to predict and measure project delays using CPM scheduling, what-if scenario analysis, and time impact analysis.

Identify and manage the critical path—the longest sequence of dependent tasks with no slack—to determine the project duration and how delays affect completion.

Explore the concept of float in project schedules, including free float, total float, and terminal float, critical path context, who owns it, and its role in causation and delay claims.

Identify the components of delay analysis—program, events and progress records, and supporting evidence—and learn to determine the earliest completion date, activity sequencing, and baseline comparison for contract projects.

Explore delay analysis methodologies—planned with as built, impacted as planned, collapsed as built, and time impact analysis—along with key selection parameters like contract terms, causative events, and programmer skill.

Explore extension of time under the Fidic yellow book, outlining delays entitlements, notices to the engineer, and claims under subclauses 8.4 and 20.1.

Analyze as-planned versus as-built schedules by examining enabling, infrastructure, substructure, and MEP delays, including causes like fire, change in law, and strikes.

Explore how an employer's perceived delays impact the as-planned response, with contractor responsibility for fire, strikes, and zero extension of time, and the role of subcontractor delays.

Explore how delays arise, who is responsible, and how consultants handle design delays, extension of time, force majeure, and change in law in delay claims.

Expert opinion drives time impact analysis to allocate extensions of time, such as four weeks for late clearance. It flags design delays as critical and uses mitigation for strikes.

Explore how contractor, consultant, and expert delay assessments differ, with emphasis on progress, concurrency, and criticality, and learn how to review records and select proper delay analysis methods.