Managing delay is one of the most significant risks in any construction project. All too often, entitlement to time or money, or both is lost not because the delay didn’t happen, but because of procedural traps, poor record-keeping, or flawed analysis.
Our upcoming free Spring seminar is designed to provide you with practical advice for building, protecting, and presenting robust claims. Drawing on our extensive experience in adjudications and dispute resolution, we will share the proactive steps you can take from the contract stage through to project completion to safeguard your position and mitigate exposure to delay damages.
Whether you are a subcontractor, main contractor, consultant, or developer, this session offers essential insights for anyone managing the commercial and contractual realities of project delays.
What we’ll cover
- Contract & notice traps that cost entitlement. Conditions precedent, time bars, amended EOT triggers, concurrency wording, and main contract/subcontract gaps that block recovery.
- Proving delay: programme credibility, criticality and causation (made simple). What decision-makers expect to see, selecting appropriate delay analysis methodologies and proving delay without drowning in analysis
- EOT vs Loss & Expense: getting both right. How to progress and present time and money entitlements correctly (and what changes in NEC contracts where they’re assessed together).
- Assessment and follow-up. What a good EOT assessment looks like (whether you are requesting one or preparing it), what should be recorded, and how to follow up if the claim isn’t dealt with properly.
- Delay damages and LD exposure. Liquidated vs unliquidated damages, common pitfalls, why securing the right EOT position matters, and how delay liability can be passed down the chain.
- Records that win. What “good” looks like in the real world and ensuring time spent on producing records achieves results and supports down-the-line recovery.
Attendees will receive example templates and flowcharts based on commonly used standard forms.
Who should attend?
Directors, Commercial managers, quantity surveyors, contract administrators and others involved in managing contracts and projects. The content is directly relevant to anyone involved in managing contracts and projects who needs to protect entitlements and manage delay risk.
Event details:
- Free half-day seminar
- Held in Bristol and London
Register your place:
Spaces are limited, so early booking is recommended. Spaces are limited to two per company at each venue and are allocated on a first come, first-served basis. Please click the links below to book.
Bristol
- Date: 23 April 2026
- Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm
- Location: Aztec Hotel & Spa, Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol, BS32 4TS.
- Cost: Free (booking required; places limited to 2 per company)
London:
- Date: 29 April 2026
- Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm
- Location: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 12 Bloomsbury Square, London, WCIA 2LP
- Cost: Free (booking required; places limited to 2 per company)
How CCC can help
CCC supports contractors, subcontractors and employers with the commercial issues that commonly arise on live projects, including payment and valuation, programme, change control and dispute strategy. We focus on clear, practical advice on how contracts operate in practice, helping our clients make informed decisions and manage risk as issues develop.
Where matters progress into dispute, we assist with negotiation, adjudication and other resolution routes, with an emphasis on proportionate outcomes and protecting commercial position.
