Benchmarking Planning and Scheduling in the AEC Industry – The Power of Data Collection & Risk Based Scheduling Analytics, Littleton, CO
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Appropriate Dispute Resolution – Legal Technologies, Accelerating the Management and Resolution of Infrastructure and Construction Disputes
Dispute Resolution is a fast evolving arena with several methods no longer being merely alternatives but an appropriate dispute resolution mechanism instead. With Singapore in 2019 being the venue and the named Convention on the Enforcement of Mediation Settlement and…
Navigating penalties and liquidated damages across common law and civil law jurisdictions
The Civil and Common Law approaches to fixed damages upon the occurrence of breaches of contract has taken different paths. Penalties are frowned upon in the Common Law but liquidated damages enforced. The reverse is broadly true in the Civil…
Damage Recovery Measurement Issues Unique to Construction Disputes
This paper discusses the complexity of construction damage measurement, and ten legal concepts affecting on construction damage measurement and recovery.
Trends in Various Jurisdictions on Construction Law
This summary should be considered as a basic introduction only and does not constitute legal advice of the legal position in any jurisdiction and no liability is accepted or assumed for any error in the comments below.
Bringing Order To The Delay Melee: Understanding the SCL Delay & Disruption Protocol and AACEI RP 29R-03
There are two major peer-reviewed, institutional guides to forensic programme delay analysis methods. One is the Society of Construction Law’s Delay and Disruption Protocol 2nd ed. (2017) and the other is Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International’s (AACE)…
Penalty Clauses Around the Globe
This article aims to analyze how some legal aspects and rules may influence on how owners and contractors approach claim management in construction projects, taking special consideration in regards to scope change and time limit to present claims. There has…
Depositions in International Arbitration: Should They Be More Readily Permitted?
Depositions in international arbitration proceedings is a controversial problem. This paper explores the nature of depositions as a United States-based discovery mechanism and examines the role that depositions could take as part of international arbitrations.
Unforeseen Site Conditions – Should the Contractor Expect the Worst and Hope for the Best?
In civil engineering works the assessment by the contractor at tender stage of the ground conditions that are likely to be encountered during the works constitutes a baseline assumption for the purposes of its bid price. Where conditions turn out…
Consequential Loss
Until recently Australian courts have followed the decisions of English courts, which have restricted the meaning of the expression ‘consequential loss’ to loss that falls within the second limb of Hadley v Baxendale. However, since 2008 there have been a…