Delay expert evidence

What we analyse

• Forensic delay analysis and responsibility for delay
• Disruption analysis
• Extension of time entitlement, claims and defences
• Independent determinations of extension of time claims
• Reviews of engineer’s and employer’s determinations
• Progress monitoring records, baseline and as-built programmes
• Planning and programming on live projects, including master planning for developments

Methods

We choose the method to suit the contract, the records available and the question the tribunal must answer, and we explain why it was chosen.

Where we give evidence

International arbitration under the ICC and DIAC rules, ICC expert determination, and amicable settlement panels.

How we work

1. We agree the questions we are asked to answer, in writing.
2. We go to the contract and the contemporaneous records first, then the parties’ claims.
3. We build the analysis from the programmes and the progress records, and we state every assumption and every gap in the records.
4. We meet the other side’s expert in good faith and record agreements and disagreements in a joint statement.
5. We give oral evidence when required and answer questions as we would for the tribunal, whoever asks them.

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