Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts 4th ed
ISBN13: 9780414045200
Published: October 2010
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: Out of print
This new 4th edition of Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts:-
Presents detailed guidance on handling delays and disruption in construction and civil engineering projects
Goes through the topic in chronological sequence, covering everything from inception and initial risk assessment to disputes and settlement
Provides real solutions to problems likely to occur in construction projects
Deals with the practice of change management and project control in construction projects
Looks at planning and scheduling
Examines the law of proof of causation in delay and disruption related claims
Discusses how the latest versions of standard forms of contract deal with extensions of time and compensation for delay and disruption
Covers exclusion clauses
Explains how claims for delay, disruption, concurrency, parallelism, pacing, apportionment, total loss and
modified total loss and time should be dealt with
Looks at the recovery of management time and lost profits as damages
Uses diagrams to clearly explain a wide range of issues – planning and scheduling risk, GMP, target cost,
partnering and alliancing contracts, notices pacing and total time claims, forensic schedule analysis, visualisations, settlement and dispute resolution, concurrency, parallelism, apportionment, global claims, total loss and modified total loss and time claims
Draws practical lessons from contemporary academic and legal theory on this topic
Explains recent case law
Deals with the law on this subject in England, Scotland, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the United States