Construction claims and contract law, for practitioners
Reported judgments, solutions to 250+ legal/contractual issues, FIDIC clause by clause guidance, calculators and CPD for practitioners who prepare, defend and determine construction claims.
Society of Construction ClaimsSpecialists InternationalSince 2009
Construction claims and contract law, for practitioners
Reported judgments with the reasoning in full, clause-by-clause guidance to the standard forms, calculators for time and money, and continuing professional development. Written for claims specialists, quantity surveyors and construction lawyers.
Certification programmesThe Society's ECCCS, ECCDA and ECCCM programmes are delivered at sccsinternational.org
Contents
What is published here
A working reference for claims specialists, quantity surveyors and construction lawyers: the legal position on the problems that arise on real projects, the judgments behind it, and the tools to act on them.
250+ legal and contractual issues, each answered with the governing rule and the authorities behind it.
Technology and Construction Court judgments from 2003 onwards, each opened with a plain summary of what was decided.
A full law report on each case: the facts, the issue, the decision and the practice points that follow from it.
An interactive process flow for each case, mapping the reasoning step by step from the dispute to the ruling.
Navigators for all twenty clauses of the Red Book: the claims, the risks and the time bars each one carries.
720 self-test questions taken from the judgments themselves, to check how well a decision has landed.
Calculators, converters and working tools for delay, quantum, payment, retention and the notices that go with them.
Letters to adapt and send, covering contractual notifications, claims letters and formal legal notice.
Introduction to Construction Law in twelve lessons, written for people coming to the subject for the first time.
Today's filing, five questions on a reported judgment, the day's legal analysis and the decisions that change what a notice has to do.
Top of the desk
All of today's filing
United KingdomThirty of the 61 Grenfell Inquiry recommendations are complete and the interim Chief Construction Adviser signs off saying cost and programme cannot outrank safetyThe Grenfell Tower Inquiry Government Progress Report for September 2026.
Filed 11 September 2026
WorldThe Houthis take Mokha, Brent passes 105 dollars and only 12 ships cross Bab Al Mandeb in a day as Yemen's government regroups 46km to the southHouthi forces took the Red Sea port city of Mokha on Thursday after several days of fighting.
Filed 11 September 2026
United KingdomA building notice escapes the Building Safety Levy, so the department reminds councils which new dwellings must use full plans before 1 OctoberThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government wrote to every unitary, metropolitan.
Filed 11 September 2026
Tech and AINvidia and eight Australian operators plan up to 2 gigawatts of AI factory capacity by 2027, as the grid operator forecasts data centre demand rising nearly sevenfold by 2036Nvidia announced on 9 September 2026 that it is collaborating with eight Australian cloud.
Filed 11 September 2026Ninety seconds
The Daily Knowledge Check
Five questions on claims and contract law. Every answer opens onto the authority behind it.
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Three to read
One reported judgment from the Technology and Construction Court, and two stories from this morning that are not already above.
Reported judgmentParkingeye Limited v Velindre University NHS Trust & Anor [2026] EWHC 1019 (TCC)
Two NHS bodies had run a procurement for car park management services and decided to award.
6 minutes
United Kingdom55m pounds for building control trainees employed for two years at no direct cost to councils, and charging regulations unchanged since 2010 are to be laid shortly
Alexandra Parish, Deputy Director for Building Professions at the Ministry of Housing.
3 minutes
Middle EastQatar Airways plans 138 new aircraft over five years and a winter network of more than 170 destinations
Qatar Airways will operate to more than 170 destinations in the 2026 to 2027 winter season.
3 minutesLegal analysis
ABC v Huntercombe: an employer's vicarious liability to outsiders does not pass under TUPE The point of law, 8 September 2026A hospital operator went into liquidation with a large insurance deductible and more than fifty similar claims waiting.
All legal analysisTerm of the day
Professional indemnity insurance Risk, security and project deliveryProfessional indemnity insurance covers specified civil liability arising from professional services, subject to the policy terms. Claims-made cover, exclusions, excess, aggregation and the required maintenance period should be checked.
The full glossaryDecided in the last seven days
The risk board
Four rulings that change what a notice, a bid or a bond has to do. Each one opens the full report.
The competition regulator puts bid rigging in public procurement at 1bn to 3.5bn pounds a year and asks for losing bids to be kept
Two reports published on 8 September say most of the regulator's bid rigging cases have been in construction, that public sector construction spending is 41 billion pounds a year, and that the data needed to screen tenders at scale is not collected.
Competition and Markets Authority, 9 September 2026RemediationBoth Houses approve the building safety levy amendments three weeks before the levy starts on 1 October
The Lords approved the draft Building Safety Levy (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026 at 15:48 on 7 September and a Commons committee agreed them at 18:20.
Communities and Faith, 8 September 2026InsolvencyCreditors approve seven Ardmore CVAs and the chairman says the group is done with main contracting
The property companies left standing after Ardmore's construction arm went into administration have company voluntary arrangements approved, according to the group and its restructuring advisers.
Ardmore group, 7 September 2026DisclosureThe developer admits the wiki incident and says the reporting standard does not exist
An artificial intelligence company has conceded that nobody has yet written the rule for when a model going wrong has to be declared.
co-founder and chief executive of Transluce, 6 September 2026