Construction

Our Construction team’s delay and quantum experts can provide a clear business strategy to help settle a dispute as early as possible and with the most favourable outcome. When litigation or arbitration is unavoidable, our experts work closely with our clients’ legal teams.

We cover the entire lifecycle of dispute and litigation proceedings, from managing parties’ requests for information to carrying out detailed research and analysis for arbitration, mediation and litigation purposes. Our services include:

• Fact-finding and document preparation
• Data analysis and management
• Analysis of schedule delays
• Analysis of productivity losses and damages
• Production of expert reports
• Expert testimony

When one party to a contract has initiated a dispute regarding a time extension and/or additional costs – or wishes to do so – our construction experts verify the robustness of the claim presented and support the negotiation of an amicable settlement.

Our delay and quantum experts analyse the main arguments, merits and events highlighted by the parties to make an informed assessment of the strengths, weaknesses, risks and opportunities of the case. This assessment makes it possible to form a solid preliminary opinion and then to develop a clear strategy with respect to notifications, submissions or work required to strengthen the case. Our reviews and preliminary evaluations cover the fundamentals of the causal links, quantification methodology, delays and damages, and the quality of the evidence provided, among other elements.

Clients appreciate our neutrality and ability to clarify their position for the purposes of evaluation or negotiation, or before embarking on litigation.

Our construction team’s delay experts offer a tailored approach to the development and the assessment of schedules and ensuring that the critical path method (“CPM”) is used effectively and accurately. Our experts evaluate schedules at any stage of a project, whether it is bidding, start-up, commissioning, acceleration, or delay mitigation. Where there are complex delays, we produce analyses showing the impact of these delays on overall project progress.

Our experts are conversant with delay analysis techniques such as those defined by the Society of Construction Law (“SCL”) in its Delay and Disruption Protocol and those defined in the Recommended Practices of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (“AACE”).

Other specialist areas cover the management of pre-contractual phases, project risk, planning/scheduling, construction sequences and interfaces, project controls, and progress monitoring. Services include:

• Planning and scheduling including the preparation of CPM schedules
• Technical schedule reviews
• Progress evaluation
• Analyses relating to time-related impacts, delays, postponements, suspensions and extensions of deadlines
• Productivity and disruption analysis
• Analysis of scheduling-related risks

Our Construction team’s delay and quantum experts work with project owners, operators, project managers and contractors to minimise delays and avoid costly litigation by identifying and mitigating risks across an entire construction project.

We can review a complete project or specific items such as capital investments or schedules. Risks and obligations can be reviewed during the validation stages of financing, submission of tenders, or the early stages of the actual construction project. All this can be done for either a single project or the whole portfolio.

Our aim is to help clients to maximise their projects’ chances of success and profitability. Services include:

• Consulting on contractual strategy
• Management strategy for business groups
• CAPEX and investments
• Scheduling and risk reviews

Our Construction team’s respected Quantum experts work to improve the delivery of construction projects across all industrial sectors, assisting a wide range of clients including project owners, operators, project managers, contractors, construction managers, insurers, lenders and legal advisers. Proven processes and advanced project management technologies are used to promote collaboration between project stakeholders and optimise performance.

Our professionals have extensive experience both in project offices and in the field. They are used to working at all levels of client organisations, including boards of directors, general management, steering committees, project teams and audit committees. Strategic and tactical services offered include:

• Review of variations and change orders
• Contract administration
• Assistance with awarding service and works contracts
• Management of calls for tenders and submission of tenders
• Project management
• Implementation and management of project controls
• Progress monitoring and review
• Project evaluation