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Expert Certified Construction Claims Specialist, Construction Delay Analyst and Construction Contract Administrator.
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SCCSI CPD
Construction Claims: Master Foundation Course
Thirteen recorded sessions on the foundations of construction claims practice, for claims specialists, quantity surveyors and lawyers. Each session runs on its own and the course runs in order.
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Introduction To Claims
An introduction to construction claims: what a claim is, how one arises on a project, and what the claiming party has to show before a claim can be considered on its merits by the other side.
Course modules
Construction Claims - Causes
The events and circumstances on a construction project that give rise to claims, and how each one is treated once it has been identified, recorded on site and put to the other party.
Classification of Construction Claims
How construction claims are classified, what separates one category from another, and why the classification matters to the way a claim is prepared, priced and finally presented.
Classification of Delays
The categories of delay used in claims practice, what distinguishes each one from the next, and how the classification affects entitlement to time and to money under the contract.
Workshop No 1 - Concurrent Delay
A worked session on concurrent delay, taking the problem through the questions that decide whether two delays are truly concurrent, and what follows for time and money once they are.
Pacing Delay and How It Could Be Abused
Pacing delay, what it is and how it differs from culpable delay, together with the ways in which it can be misused when a claim is assembled long after the events it describes.
Delay Analysis Methodologies
The methods used to analyse delay, what each one requires by way of records and a programme, and the circumstances in which each of them is properly applied on a live project.
A Review of FIDIC Claims
A review of claims under the FIDIC forms of contract, covering the notice requirements, the procedure that follows a notice, and the way in which entitlement is established.
Workshop No 2 - EOT Claim
A worked session on an extension of time claim, from the triggering event and the notice through to the analysis that has to support the period of time being claimed.
Disruption Claims
Disruption claims, what has to be shown to recover lost productivity, and the methods used to measure that loss where the contemporaneous records on the project allow it.
Acceleration Claims
Acceleration claims and how they arise, whether instructed by the employer or brought about by a refusal to grant an extension of time that was properly due to the contractor.
Workshop No 3 - Impact Analysis
A worked session on impact analysis, following the effect of a single event through the programme and into the cost consequences that flow from it for both parties.
Construction Claims - Strategies
Strategy in construction claims, from the records kept while the works are running through to the preparation, pricing and presentation of the claim when it is finally made.