Delay Analysis and Compensation Claims
Essca Consulting are experts in the preparation of, or defending claims for time extension and the associated claims for prolongation costs, disruption claims and acceleration claims using Delay Analysis and dealing with the same in adjudication proceedings.
Delay and disruption happen in most engineering and construction projects and considered to be the primary reason for the late completion of projects and increase in costs to all parties. No matter what the causes of the delay(s) are, Essca Consulting is able to assist its clients in delay and disruption analysis of the project for extension of time entitlement and determination of cost compensation. We understand the importance of construction schedules, baseline programmes, control mechanisms as well as cost variations and can assist you in ‘Forensic Schedule Analysis’ to determine the root cause of project delays and its effect on schedule using an established schedule analysis technique that is appropriate for the particular project under analysis.
What We Do
Our delay analysis and cost compensation services include:
- The forensic review of documents and other underlying information
- Delay and disruption analysis of the project in order to arrive at an extension of time and cost overruns attributable to delay
- Critical evaluation and factual analysis of schedules to identify the causes of delay as well as apportionment of delays between the client and contractor.
- Analysis of time-related issues covering variations, disruption and acceleration, concurrency, float and pacing arguments, Financial Impact, Loss and Damages Quantification Services.
- Quantification of the financial impact of delay and loss of profits claims.
- Quantification of acceleration, variation and disruption claims
- Implementation of schedule analytics tools to extract, organise and analyse high volume of data from a variety of scheduling tools including Primavera P6 databases.
- Determination of excusable delays as well as our assessment of what is contractually compensable.
Capability
Essca Consulting has relevant professional experience including engineering, construction management, valuation, accountancy expertise as well as technology specialization, deep industry expertise and operational experience on complex projects and ability to combine technical, contractual, financial and economic solutions. Our team members have dealt Extension of Time (EoT) claims for projects financed by World Bank, ABRD and other multilateral financial institutions and are well versed with FIDIC conditions. Our independent analysis of delays and cost compensation duly supported by documentation can serve as the objective evidence before the dispute resolution forums, arbitration tribunals and courts.