What do you need from us to start?

The current drawing set with revision numbers, the specification if one exists, and the model if there is one. If part of that is missing we can still measure, with the gaps recorded as assumptions on the face of the schedule. What we will not do is silently fill a gap and let it read as a measured quantity.

Which standard do you measure to?

NRM2 for bills and pricing schedules, NRM1 elemental structure where the output feeds a cost plan . If a project is running to a different rule set, we will follow it and say so in the basis of measurement. What matters is that one rule applies throughout and that everyone pricing knows which one.

Our model is not very good. Is it still worth using?

Often yes, for the parts that are modelled properly. The judgement is which elements to trust and which to measure conventionally, and that judgement is made explicitly rather than assumed. A model that is only reliable for the frame and the envelope is still saving you time on the frame and the envelope.

Can you check quantities in a claim or final account?

Yes, and it is a frequent instruction. Remeasurement of contested work, verification of a contractor's quantities, and testing whether claimed items were already inside the original scope. That work sits alongside final accounts and disputes .

Extension of Time Claims | EOT Claim Support

01
The provisions that actually apply: which clause gives the right to time, for which events, and what it requires of you before it can be used.
02
A chronology built from records: what happened and when, taken from programmes, site records and correspondence rather than from recollection.
03
The notices, checked: whether they were served, when, and whether the contract makes late notice fatal or merely unhelpful.
04
A submission, not a complaint: the events, the entitlement and the preliminary assessment of impact, set out so the other side can follow and test it.

Most refused extensions are not refused because the delay did not happen. They are refused because the route to claiming it was not followed.

Notice periods are short and they start when the event becomes apparent, not when its consequences are finally understood.

A programme that was never agreed, never updated, or updated without saying what changed leaves nothing to measure delay against.

Concurrent delay turns a straightforward claim into an argument about which cause came first and which one mattered, and the answer depends on records that were either kept at the time or not kept at all.

01

Contractual provisions

The relevant events, the notice requirements and the assessment mechanism the contract provides, including any amendments made to them.

02

Programme and records review

The baseline, the updates, the site records and the correspondence, and an honest view of what they do and do not support.

03

Chronology of delay events

What happened, when it became apparent and what followed, set out in order and tied to the site records that show it.

04

Notices assessed

Whether each required notice was served and in time, and what the contract says about the consequence if it was not.

05

Preliminary assessment of impact

The effect on completion as the records support it. Advanced forensic delay analysis is a separate discipline, outside this scope.

06

Submission prepared

The claim assembled with its evidence attached, in a form that can be assessed rather than returned for more information.

Time and money run on separate provisions. An extension of time relieves liability for delay damages and resets the completion date. Recovering the cost of the delay is a separate claim, under separate clauses, with its own evidential requirements, and we prepare that separately as loss and expense.

This is commercial and contractual assessment, not legal advice, and not forensic delay analysis. Where a dispute turns on competing delay methodologies before a tribunal, that is specialist work and we will say so rather than present something thinner as though it were the same thing.

Loss and expense claims

We missed the notice period. Is the claim dead?

Not necessarily, and it depends entirely on the wording. Some contracts make notice a condition precedent, meaning entitlement is lost without it. Others treat late notice as a factor in assessment. That distinction is one of the first things we check.

Does an extension of time mean we get paid for the delay?

No. It protects you from delay damages and moves the completion date. Payment for the cost of the delay is a separate claim under separate provisions, which is why the two are prepared separately.

Do you do forensic delay analysis?

No. We prepare the contractual claim: provisions, notices, chronology, records and a preliminary assessment of impact. Where a case needs a delay expert, you need one, and we will tell you that early.

What if the programme was never agreed?

Then the first job is establishing what can be measured against, which is sometimes a reconstructed sequence from site records. It is harder and it is honest to say so before the work starts rather than after.