Construction Claims Management - (9 PDUs)

Traces FIDIC contract conditions and Vidic history from 1913 to the 2017/18 edition, outlines objectives and growth to 100 member countries, four regional groups, and 1.1 million engineers.

Explore how FIDIC contracts standardize international transactions, ensure coherent and clear clauses, offer flexible models, and balance risk through continuous updates and global accreditation.

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Define the claim and its event and impact, notify the other party, substantiate it with contract terms, and prepare delay and cost analyses for potential negotiation or dispute resolution.

Learn to issue a notice of a claim: inform the engineer of the event and its impact. File a detailed claim within 28 days and cite the contract clause.

Determine the claim type and link it to the appropriate contract clause, then substantiate with analysis and documents to address extension of time, variation, acceleration, or unforeseen conditions.

Explore extension of time claims under clause 8.5 of the Red Book 2017, covering eligible delays, calculations, and preparation for time extensions.

Explore events and causes driving extension of time claims, including delayed drawings, access, and unforeseeable physical conditions, focusing on notices, and the cost plus profit implications.

Explore extension of time claims under the 2017 Red Book, detailing notices, costs, and payment for delays due to archaeological findings, testing, authorities, suspensions, and exceptional events.

Identify acceleration claims and their three types: acceleration, constructive acceleration, and voluntary acceleration. Learn how delays and change orders create extra costs and necessitate substantiation and time extensions.

Explore acceleration claims under the Society of Construction Law, detailing when acceleration is contractually provided or agreed, how payment is determined, and the roles of mitigation and constructive acceleration.

Explore how acceleration affects project costs, including labor overtime, equipment and material costs, supervision, and subcontracting, plus essential documentation for substantiating acceleration claims.

Explore how acceleration measures under FIDIC revise methods to reduce delays, link to value engineering, and examine incentives for early completion via contract clauses.

Examine variation claims and how change orders affect contract terms, scope, time, and cost. Identify design modifications, specification changes, site conditions, errors, shortages, and negative variations impacting contractors and subcontractors.

Explore variation concepts under clause 13, including how the engineer initiates variations, contractor obligations, and the impact on cost, time, and the works.

Delayed payment claims in construction stem from poor financial management, disputed work amounts, and invoice errors, triggering financing charges and affecting contractor cash flow and the payment chain.

The contractor may suspend or slow work after a 21-day notice if the employer breaches the contract, with remedies leading to resumption or claims for time, costs, and site care.

Explore contract termination claims under 2017 clauses, where the contractor must exhaust remedies and document grounds, noting 42-day and 56-day deadlines and possible employer counter notices.

Explore how contractor-initiated termination works under subclause 16.2, including two notices, 14-day response, and immediate termination, plus post-termination obligations and payment rights under 18.5 and 20.2.

Define disruption as hindrance to a contractor's method, causing productivity loss and potential compensation. Explore its relation to delay, critical path impact, and notice requirements under Vidic.

Investigate disruption analysis for construction productivity losses, identify causes of lost productivity, and compare methods from measured mile analysis to cost-based approaches.

Explore exceptional events and force majeure, their definitions, the unpredictability, and the impossibility to prevent them. Learn how external versus internal events affect liability and contract termination.

Learn how exceptional events, defined in clause eighteen of the 2017 Red Book, trigger notices within 14 days, excuse performance, and affect time, costs, and possible termination.

Explore delay analysis techniques in construction claims management, distinguishing observation and modeled approaches, static and dynamic methods, and prospective and retrospective analyses, including time impact analysis and as-built collapse examples.

Use the as planned vs as built technique to compare baseline and actual finish dates for delay analysis, noting its simplicity and limits like dynamic critical path and concurrent delays.

Learn to build a fragnet, set up delay-impacted activities, link with finish-to-start relationships, apply change orders, and calculate their impact on the overall project schedule.

Apply the impacted as planned technique by linking a delay to the baseline schedule, measuring its effect on the overall project, and documenting the event.

Time impact analysis assesses how delay events affect a contractor's progress. It updates the schedule before delays to calculate new completion dates and classify delays as excusable or compensable.

Apply the retrospective windows analysis technique to baseline schedules updated monthly, analyzing each time slice to quantify delay impact, concurrency, and the dynamic critical path across windows.

Analyze concurrent delay and its practical definitions in a construction project. Examine how contract clauses allocate liability, time extensions, and liquidated damages across owner, contractor, and force majeure scenarios.

Explore direct and indirect costs in construction claims management, differentiate cost and cost plus profit, and learn substantiation for lost productivity and delays.

Analyze head office overhead as an indirect project cost during delay periods, outlining three methods—Hutson's formula, the evidence formula, and the Etchells formula—for allocating overhead to contracts.

Learn to prepare and present a construction claim with clear structure, auditable documentation, and standalone format, including scope, timeline, cost analysis, and response to reviewer questions.

Identify the four essential elements of a claim—cause, effect, entitlement, and substantiation—and prepare a properly documented claim by timely event recording, linking cause to impact, and citing contract terms.

Explains cause and effect in construction claims with a real-life example: trenching delays access to six houses from Feb 1–9, 2010, affecting completion and entitlement to an extension of time.

The lecture explains the effect of a cause on a construction claim by detailing access restrictions, delayed material deliveries, and the baseline schedule proves a nine-day delay for six dwellings.

Identify entitlement as the core of a valid claim, covering extension of time, additional payment, and liquidated damages. Learn to substantiate each element with contract clauses and conditions precedent.

Prepare the claim package: cover letter with logos and project photo, executive summary, statement of claim, definitions, contract particulars, delay analysis method, extension of time, additional cost, and appendices.

Learn how to craft the executive summary and statement of claim for construction disputes, detailing project scope, parties, value, dates, events, delays, entitlement, and supporting contractual references.

Explore how to compose a complete construction claims document, detailing contract particulars, definitions, and standard terminology, and applying delay analysis techniques for extension of time and additional costs.

examine a design-by-employer case study of red rose tower, detailing transformer room design concerns, approvals, and revised drawings that affect space, schedule, and costs in a mixed-use project.

This lecture explains preparing a statement of claim for construction delays, detailing extension of time and additional payment due to transformer room delays.

Understand contract particulars, definitions, and document formats, and learn to navigate employer, contractor, and engineer roles, conditions, time extensions, and notices of claim in construction claims.

Apply the impacted as planned method to measure employer-caused delays on the critical path and determine time extensions. Clarify the baseline program and how concurrency influences the completion date.

Identify the delay cause for an extension of time by tracing transformer room design changes and National Electricity Company coordination, and show the impact on the project schedule.

Detail how the contractor mitigated delays through daily site reports, a steel template for block work, extended shifts, generator power on a brownfield site, and enabling transformer testing and commissioning.

Analyze delay using the impacted as-built method, comparing baseline and as-built schedules to determine an extension of time, with Primavera illustrating the revised completion date.

Explore how contractors claim extension of time for completion when delays arise from delayed drawings or instructions, and how notices, variations, and engineer coordination affect entitlements.

Understand how a contractor claims prolongation costs after a delay and extension of time. The section covers site establishment, head office overhead, financing, insurance, and lost profits elsewhere.

Explore cost entitlement under contract provisions for delayed drawings and instructions, including notices, substantiation, and recovery principles, leading to additional payment plus profit and potential extension of time.

Analyze the contractor's entitlement to additional payment for prolongation, detailing extension of time, costs, depreciation, overheads, and profit with a step-by-step cost analysis.

Learn how to craft an executive summary for a construction claim, detailing extension of time and cost implications, backed by a delay analysis of a redesign on critical path.

Understand covid-19's impact on construction claims, including extensions of time and cost, and how force majeure and exceptional events apply under the 2017 edition clause 8.5.