Course overview
Time, Delay and Liquidated Damages is for project managers and commercial teams learning to manage time-related issues on construction projects. It focuses on programme obligations, extensions of time and the information needed to prepare and assess delay claims.
The course looks at notices, records and the link between an event and its effect on the work. It introduces delay analysis, disruption and liquidated damages, with attention to the requirements of the contract your team is using.
Participants work through delay scenarios and programme examples. They discuss the cause of the delay, what the records show and how they would prepare or assess an extension of time claim.
What the course covers
The main exercise follows a delay from the site record to an extension of time submission. Concurrency, time at large and delay-analysis methods are introduced to explain the issues; detailed forensic delay analysis is outside the scope of this one-day course.
Topics include:
Contractual time requirements
- Binding completion dates and contractual time obligations
- Extensions of time and relevant delay events
- Acts of prevention and time at large
- Time bars and condition precedent clauses
- Obligations to progress and programme the works
- Completion and partial possession
Assessing delay
- Cause and effect analysis
- Concurrent delay
- Who assesses extensions of time and what their role requires
- The obligation of good faith
- Delay analysis methodologies
- Time impact analysis and retrospective analysis
- Float, contingency and programme risk
Claims, damages and records
- Global claims
- Liquidated damages and enforceability
- Preparing disruption claims and supporting them with evidence
- Applying the contract to day-to-day project decisions
Course delivery
This one-day course is delivered in-house, on demand, for organisations in Australia and New Zealand. Face-to-face or virtual delivery is available, with dates agreed with you.
It is an entry-level course for project managers and commercial teams developing their understanding of delay and time-related contractual issues.
We agree the emphasis with you to suit your team’s experience and project requirements, including the contract form and any amendments. The course can be tailored to NZS, NEC or AS contracts.
Who it’s for
The course is for project managers and commercial teams responsible for managing time obligations and preparing or assessing claims, including:
- Project Managers
- Commercial Managers
- Contract Administrators
- Quantity Surveyors in Commercial Teams
