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| Article | Section | Place | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extension of timeMoving the completion date. The four elements a time claim must establish, the five defences that beat sound ones, and where each element is taken further. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Concurrent delayFive competing definitions and nine different answers on one fact pattern. Not settled law in any jurisdiction surveyed. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Notice and time barsThe element that defeats more sound claims than the other three combined. Three incompatible philosophies, and the statutory overrides now cutting across them. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Delay analysis methodsThe SCL and AACE taxonomies, why they do not map cleanly onto each other, and why your records decided the method months before the dispute. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Prolongation and delay costsThe money gateway. Compensation runs to the period the effect was felt, not to the weeks at the end of the job. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Records and evidenceWhich records support which analysis method, and what tribunals actually punish. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Extension of time in CanadaCanadian delay law is common law and contract, and no province has a delay statute. Notice, concurrency, liquidated damages and what changes at the border. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Delay regimes by Canadian provinceWhat actually changes when a delay claim crosses a provincial border: limitation variation, lien periods, adjudication scope and trust status. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Notice and time bars in CanadaGC 6.5.4, the ten-working-day clock, and why the owner does not have to prove prejudice. Where a Canadian delay claim dies most often. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Concurrent delay in CanadaCanada apportions. Schindler, Walsh v TTC, the critical-path evidentiary standard, and why the English full-extension rule does not travel. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Liquidated damages and the penalty rule in CanadaCanada has not adopted Cavendish. The two-limb test, Chandos anti-deprivation, and no statutory bar anywhere on no-damage-for-delay clauses. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| The prevention principle and time at large in CanadaPerini Pacific, the unreconciled no-damage-for-delay attribution, and the open question of whether a public-health order is a stop work order. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Prolongation and delay costs in CanadaWhat is recoverable and how it is proved: Shore & Horwitz corrected, Ellis-Don corrected, and the Canadian authorities that do not exist. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Extension of time in AlbertaThe best Canadian forum for a private delay claim and the worst for a public one. Two Acts, two regimes, and the forum is the risk, not the doctrine. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Alberta delay claim clocksEvery deadline that can kill an Alberta delay claim, grouped by clock, and the procedural rules that bite after all of them are met. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Prompt payment and adjudication in AlbertaThe widest consent gateway in Canada on private work, and a statutory carve-out of delay on provincial public works. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Notice and time bars in AlbertaThe Public Works Act 45-day registered-mail notice, GC 6.5.4, and the appellate authority Alberta may not actually have. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Limitation periods and claim accrual in AlbertaTwo years from discovery, ten years ultimate, and a limitation period the parties may extend but cannot lawfully shorten. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Liens, the lien fund and trust in AlbertaThree separate mechanisms, routinely conflated. No Certificate of Substantial Performance means no trust at all. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Arbitration and forum in AlbertaDelay causation is mixed fact and law, so the award is final. One expert per subject matter, no construction list, and dismissal for delay. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Oil, gas and industrial construction in AlbertaNo standard EPC form, no turnaround authority, no AER-delay authority, and a lien that attaches to the mineral. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| VariationsScope and price. The five elements a variation claim must establish, why agreeing a value may not pay for the time it cost, and where each element is taken further. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| What counts as a variationThe scope question, and why the Privy Council held in 2026 that it turns on the contract terms rather than on how the parties behaved on site. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Written instruction and waiverYou did the work and there is no written instruction. Five regimes, five answers, and on US public work the rule is one estoppel cannot cure. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Constructive and deemed variationsThe claim for a variation nobody instructed, and why the doctrine does not exist outside the United States, only functional substitutes measured differently. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Valuation and the pricing ladderContract rates, then adjusted rates, then a fair valuation, then daywork. You may not skip a rung, and NEC4 has no ladder at all. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Change order releasesImpact claims die in signed change orders, not in tribunals. The reservation language that works, and two citations the commentary gets backwards. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 |