Covers each potential stage of delay and disruption from inception and risk assessment through to dispute and settlementProvides commentary and comparison on 95 standard forms including 22 new standard forms of contract from the UK, Ireland, the US and New Zealand, including the 28/9 editions of the JCT and Irish government forms and the 27 AIA formCompletely revised, updated and expanded with new sections on planning and scheduling risk, GMP, target cost, partnering and alliancing contracts, notices, pacing and total time claims, forensic schedule analysis, visualisations, settlement and dispute resolutionCited in Alstom Ltd v Yokogawa Australia Proprietary Ltd, Lim Chin San Contractors Pte Ltd v LW Infrastructure Pte LtdDiscusses at length the practice and law of proof of causation in delay and disruption related claims, in various jurisdictionsCovers the practice of change management and project control in construction and civil engineering contracts Explains in detail the approach to planning and scheduling, delay and disruption, extensions of time and compensation for delay and disruption in the latest versions of standard forms Maps the developments of practical standards in planning, scheduling and forensic delay analysis against contemporary academic and legal theoryExplains how delay, disruption, concurrency, parallelism, pacing, apportionment, global claims, total loss and modified total loss and time claims should be handledCompares contrasts the old and new construction contracts in their approach to delay, extensions of time and compensationProvides diagrams to illustrate the subjects coveredDeals with the comparative law in this subject for England, Scotland, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the United StatesCONTENTS
Risk of DevelopmentProcurementStandard Form Provisions for Time and CostNotices, Claims and Early WarningsExtensions of Time and Time at LargePlanning and SchedulingPresentation and Approval of SchedulesRevising, Updating, Monitoring and ReportingProject ControlMitigation, Recovery and AccelerationVariation and ChangeConstruction RecordsCause and EffectForensic Schedule AnalysisFloat and Time ContingenciesDisruption to progress and lost productivityConcurrency, Parallelism and PacingTotal Time, Total Loss and Global ClaimsDamagesApportionmentSettlements and Dispute ResolutionAppendices REVIEWS“By far the most thorough treatment in the common law world of how to analyse delay and disruption” Robert Fenwick-Elliott, Fenwick Elliott Grace, Australian Construction law Newsletter“Continues to be one of the most in depth texts on issues of delay and disruption in construction projects.” Rupert Sydenham, Lovells, International Construction Law ReviewThe very learned author has given the profession a splendid encyclopaedia on not just his vast expertise in respect of delay and disruption but also in respect to several relevant risk categories.Building and Construction Law, John Dorter, editor