Delay Analysis and Claims Submittals

Delay Analysis and Claims Submittals

This course empowers participants with the practical delay analysis and claims preparation skills needed to manage project delays professionally, using AACE best practices and the Society of Construction Law Protocol to assess entitlement, quantify impacts, and submit well-structured EOT and compensation claim

Course Objectives

  • Explain different types of delays and their contractual and technical consequences.
  • Explain float concepts, delay indicators, and consequences including prolongation cost and concurrent delay
  • Apply internationally recognized methodologies for delay analysis based on AACE Recommended Practices and RICS Guidance to prospective and retrospective forensic schedule analysis.
  • Evaluate delay analysis methods, concurrency, critical path/float, mitigation, acceleration, and disruption.
  • Interpret and implement principles from the Society of Construction Law (SCL) Protocol for EOT and compensation assessments.
  • Develop the ability to prepare, substantiate, and submit effective delay claims under standard contracts (such as FIDIC).
  • Prepare structured EOT and LD claims, supported by proper source data, records, and case studies.
  • Analyze real-life case studies to connect theoretical concepts with practical application.

Topics Covered

    Types of Delay and Consequences

  • Delay definition, identification, CPM and types of floats, delay indicators, reasons and causes, prolongation cost, concurrent delay, consequences.

    • Delay Analysis: AACE RPs and RICS Guidance

  • Prospective TIA, forensic schedule analysis taxonomy, modelled/observational methods, MIP techniques, method selection, general principles, source validation, and RICS levels and methods of delay analysis.

    • Society of Construction Law (SCL) Protocol

  • Core principles, EOT and compensation, effective cause, concurrency, ERE after completion, mitigation, acceleration, global and disruption claims.

    • Delay Analysis Perspectives

  • Prospective vs retrospective analysis, windows/time‑slice methods, theoretical vs actual methods, method strengths/weaknesses, and categories of delay analysis.

    • Claim Submittal: Content and Sample

  • LDs and EOT claims, contractual/legal requirements, types of change, entitlement, EOT claim documents, sample EOT claim structure, head office overhead and profit (Hudson, Emden, Eichleay), disruption and productivity analysis.

    • Extra Cases and Principles

  • Worked exercises on concurrency, ERE after completion, strict milestones, multiple critical paths, selected English law and international cases (e.g., Walter Lilly, De Beers, Arcadis), prevention principle, time at large, global claims.

Course Details

  • Duration: 24 Hours
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Language: English/Arabic
  • Instructor: TBA
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Course Breakdown

Introduction, What is Delay, CPM & Types of Float, Delay Indicators.

Reasons and Causes of Delay, FIDIC 1999 Delay‑related Clauses, Risk Events, (CRE/ERE/neutral), and compression techniques (crashing/fast‑tracking).

Delay Classifications (excusable/compensable), Prolongation Cost, Concurrent Delay.

AACE Prospective TIA Fragnets, Unimpacted Schedule, TIA Steps, Flowcharts; Intro to Forensic Schedule Analysis Taxonomy

Evaluate and select appropriate forensic methods Retrospective (collapsed as‑built, modeled subtractive /additive, windows /time‑slice), and validate schedule data - Source Validation Protocols (baseline, as‑built, updates).
Critical Path & Float (AACE view), Concurrency Quantification (Assess concurrency, ownership of float), Pacing, Mitigation & Acceleration, RICS Guidance levels and methods.
SCL Protocol: Core Principles, EOT, compensation, concurrent delay, ERE after completion; Disruption & Productivity, Head Office Overheads & Profit Formulae
Claim Submittal Content & Sample (EOT/LD claim), Records & Source Data, Case Law and Exercises on Concurrency and EOT.
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