Insights

Construction Contract Governance Insights

Practical notes on FIDIC notices, time-bars, programme slips, QHSE readiness, and the difference between storing a contract and watching it.

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Programme & Delay7 min read

The NEC4 Accepted Programme: the document that quietly decides your claims

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Contracts & Claims8 min read

The Engineer's determination, plainly: the 84-day clock and the 28-day notice that ends the argument

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Programme & Delay7 min read

Who owns the float? Programme float, plainly — and why it decides delay claims

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Contracts & Claims8 min read

Contemporaneous records: the evidence that decides whether your claim survives

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Contracts & Claims8 min read

Time at large and the prevention principle: when the employer's delay frees the completion date

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Programme & Delay7 min read

Which delay analysis method should you use? The six SCL options, plainly

Workers building a reinforced-concrete structure with scaffolding on a coastal construction site.
Programme & Delay8 min read

Concurrent delay, plainly: who owns the time when two causes overlap?

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Contracts & Claims8 min read

The NEC4 eight-week time bar: how compensation events quietly expire

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Contracts & Claims8 min read

Extension of time under FIDIC, plainly: how to protect your delay entitlement

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Contracts & Claims7 min read

The FIDIC notice nobody served: how a missed deadline quietly kills a claim

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Contracts & Claims8 min read

Clause 20.1, plainly: the 28-day time-bar and how teams lose entitlement to it

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Contracts & Claims8 min read

FIDIC notice vs NEC4 early warning: the difference every project team should know

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Programme & Delay8 min read

When a programme slip becomes a contractual notice: the chain that loses claims

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Health & Safety7 min read

Method statement, permit, risk assessment: is the high-risk work actually ready?

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Technology & Practice8 min read

Document control vs a reasoning layer: why storing the contract isn't watching it

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Plain writing on construction contracts and QHSE

Long-form pieces on notices, time-bars, delay and site readiness — every point cited to the clause, the case or the standard. Written by an HSE professional with nineteen years on construction sites.

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