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| Article | Section | Place | Reviewed |
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| 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 | October 6, 2026 | |
| Concurrent delayFive competing definitions and nine different answers on one fact pattern. Not settled law in any jurisdiction surveyed. | Construction / Claims | October 6, 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 | September 27, 2026 | |
| Delay analysis methods comparedSix delay analysis methods compared: what each needs, what it costs and how it is attacked, plus a chooser driven by timing, records and the contract. | Construction / Claims | October 6, 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 | October 6, 2026 | |
| Delay notice templates for AS 4000, FIDIC 2017 and CCDC 2Six letters: the AS 4000 delay notice and EOT claim, the FIDIC Notice of Claim and fully detailed Claim, and the CCDC time and money notices. Plus when each clock starts. | Construction / Claims | October 6, 2026 | |
| How to write an EOT claimEight steps from reading the contract to submitting the claim, a claim document outline you can copy, and the reasons EOT claims most often fail. | Construction / Claims | October 6, 2026 | |
| EOT claim readiness checklistEight groups to tick off before and after you submit an extension of time claim: contract, notice, records, causation, concurrency and float, quantum, the document, and follow-up. | Construction / Claims | October 6, 2026 | |
| Extension of time in the United StatesThere is no single US rule. Federal contracting, private AIA-form work and each state's no-damage-for-delay law answer the same facts differently. | Construction / Claims | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| United States delay claim clocksThree layers, and a claim can die at any of them: AIA's 21-day Claim window, FAR's stacked notice and cost cut-offs, and the CDA's six-year bar. | Construction / Claims | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| Notice and time bars in the United StatesThe claim-within-a-claim trap. Whether a bare time request is itself a Claim, and why a Contracting Officer's grant of time never proves excusable delay. | Construction / Claims | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| Prevention and time at large in the United StatesUS law has neither doctrine. The same commercial result runs through LD non-apportionment, the implied duty not to hinder, and Spearin. | Construction / Claims | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| Concurrent delay in the United StatesConcurrency is a rule of proof, not substantive law. In federal practice the contractor, not the owner, carries the burden of separating the delays. | Construction / Claims | United States | October 6, 2026 |
| No-damage-for-delay clauses in the United StatesThe same clause is enforceable in Texas and void in Ohio. Sixteen state statutes, eight verified and eight reported, plus the Rhode Island error corrected. | Construction / Claims | United States | September 1, 2026 |
| Acceleration and constructive acceleration in the United StatesA claim parasitic on the extension-of-time claim. The Fraser five elements, where claims die under Amatea/Grimberg, and the rules on protest and cost. | Construction / Claims | United States | September 1, 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 | October 6, 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 | September 26, 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 | September 26, 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 | September 26, 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 | September 26, 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 | October 6, 2026 | |
| Change orders in the United StatesConstructive change, cardinal change and the release on the bilateral modification. Federal and private US change-order practice, and California's statutory procedure. | Construction / Claims | United States | September 22, 2026 |
| Written instruction and waiver in the United StatesNo signed change order. Private work can be waived by conduct; public and federal work turn on authority, not formality, and only the Contracting Officer binds the government. | Construction / Claims | United States | September 22, 2026 |
| Constructive change in the United StatesThe Bell/Heery two-element test, the FAR 52.243-4 clause that carries it, and why Spearin is narrower than it is usually stated. | Construction / Claims | United States | September 22, 2026 |
| Cardinal change in the United StatesWhen a change stops being a change and becomes a breach. A cost multiple alone rarely gets there, and only one state high court has expressly adopted the doctrine. | Construction / Claims | United States | September 22, 2026 |
| Change order releases and reservation of rights in the United StatesBell BCI is why a change-order release is a genuine claim-killer — the Federal Circuit reversed the contractor's cumulative-impact win. What the release does, and the reservation that held in Alares. | Construction / Claims | United States | October 6, 2026 |
| Change orders in CaliforniaCalifornia's private/public split on authority to bind the owner, CACI No. 4522, and the SB 440 statutory claim procedure that takes effect 1 January 2026. | Construction / Claims | California | September 22, 2026 |
| California SB 440: the change-order payment statuteFrom 1 January 2026, Cal. Civ. Code §§ 8850–8851 give private-works contractors a 30-day owner statement, 60-day payment, 2% monthly interest and a stop-work right. It is not adjudication. | Construction / Claims | California | September 22, 2026 |