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Claims and Delay Analysis / Forensic Planning
A practical, technically rigorous programme for planning engineers, project controls teams, contract managers, and claims consultants — building the capability to prepare, review, and defend delay, EOT, and disruption claims on major GCC construction and infrastructure projects.
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Description
Programme Highlights
Recognised Delay-Analysis Methodologies
As-planned vs as-built, impacted as-planned, time-impact analysis, and windows analysis — applied with judgment, not formula.
FIDIC & NEC Claims Interface
Notice provisions, particulars, and the determination process that turns a valid delay analysis into a valid contractual claim.
Defensible Forensic Reports
Narrative structure, exhibits, and peer-review discipline that produce a report able to withstand scrutiny in adjudication or arbitration.
Capstone Claim File
Build a complete EOT/delay-analysis package from a sample project case, ready to apply directly on a live GCC claim.
Course Curriculum — 8 Modules
Claims and Delay Foundations
This module builds the conceptual foundation every credible delay claim rests on. Participants examine the core delay taxonomy — excusable versus non-excusable delay, compensable versus non-compensable delay, and the distinction between delay (time) and disruption (productivity loss) that many project teams conflate. The module covers extension of time (EOT) mechanics and prolongation cost as distinct but related concepts, and introduces the causation and entitlement logic that underpins every claim: establishing that an event occurred, that it caused delay to the critical path or disrupted planned productivity, and that the contract entitles the claiming party to time, money, or both. GCC contract environments — where FIDIC and increasingly NEC forms govern major infrastructure and building contracts — are used throughout as the reference context.
Records and Evidence
A delay claim is only as strong as the records that support it. This module builds the discipline of contemporary record-keeping — site diaries, progress photographs, correspondence, and minutes of meetings captured at the time an event occurred rather than reconstructed after the fact. Participants examine what makes correspondence claim-ready: clear event description, timely notice, and factual language that avoids speculation. The module covers baseline schedule management and progress update discipline as evidentiary tools, and closes with event chronology construction — building a defensible, date-referenced narrative of what happened, when, and why, that forms the backbone of any delay or disruption claim on GCC project environments.
Delay-Analysis Methodologies
This module builds practical competence in the recognised delay-analysis methodologies used on GCC construction and infrastructure disputes. Participants work through as-planned versus as-built analysis, understanding its strengths for straightforward cases and its limitations on complex, multi-cause delays. The module covers impacted as-planned analysis and its use in prospective delay assessment, before moving to time-impact analysis (TIA) — the methodology most frequently required by FIDIC-based GCC contracts for contemporaneous EOT assessment. Windows analysis is covered in depth, including period selection logic and the retrospective, as-built windows approach preferred by many GCC employers and consultants for post-completion claim review. Participants learn to select the methodology appropriate to the available records and dispute forum.
Critical Path and Concurrency
Understanding the critical path is the technical core of any credible delay analysis. This module teaches participants to track critical path movement through a project's schedule updates, distinguishing genuine critical path delay from float erosion that has no time entitlement consequence. The module addresses float ownership — a frequently disputed issue on GCC contracts where the contract is silent or ambiguous on who owns float — and the practical approaches used to resolve float ownership disputes. Concurrent delay receives dedicated treatment: identifying true concurrency between employer-risk and contractor-risk events, and the pacing considerations that distinguish genuine concurrent delay from a contractor's deliberate pacing of already-delayed activities.
FIDIC/NEC Claims Interface
Delay analysis only produces entitlement if it is submitted through the correct contractual mechanism. This module builds practical fluency in the claims and compensation event procedures of the FIDIC and NEC forms most commonly used across Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. Participants examine notice provisions under FIDIC Clause 20 (and its Yellow/Silver Book variants) and NEC compensation event notification, the particulars and supporting substantiation required to convert a notice into a valid claim, and the engineer's or project manager's determination process. The module closes with dispute avoidance techniques — using early, well-substantiated claims and structured engagement with the contract administrator to resolve entitlement before it escalates into formal dispute resolution.
Quantification of Claims
A well-proven delay does not automatically produce a well-proven value. This module builds the quantification skills that turn delay entitlement into a defensible cost claim. Participants calculate prolongation costs using time-related preliminaries and actual cost records, and apply recognised disruption quantification methods — measured mile analysis, industry productivity studies, and earned value comparison — to loss-of-productivity claims common on GCC labour-intensive construction projects. The module covers acceleration cost quantification for constructive and directed acceleration scenarios, and closes with cost substantiation discipline: linking every quantified value back to auditable project records rather than formula-driven estimates that collapse under scrutiny.
Forensic Planning Report
A forensic delay report is judged on whether it survives cross-examination, not just whether the analysis is technically correct. This module builds the report-writing discipline expected on GCC claims and dispute submissions. Participants structure a clear narrative that connects cause, effect, and entitlement in a logical sequence a non-technical reader can follow, and learn to state assumptions explicitly rather than burying them in methodology. The module covers exhibit and appendix organisation that supports rather than overwhelms the narrative, and closes with peer review discipline and defensibility testing — stress-testing a report's logic and evidence base before it is submitted to an engineer, adjudicator, or tribunal.
Capstone Claim File
The programme closes with an applied capstone: participants prepare a complete EOT and delay-analysis package from a realistic sample project case modelled on GCC construction disputes. Working from a project scenario with schedule delays, disputed events, and incomplete records, participants select and apply an appropriate delay-analysis methodology, quantify prolongation and disruption costs, and assemble a forensic planning report with supporting exhibits. Facilitator and peer feedback focuses on the defensibility of the finished claim file — whether the methodology, evidence, and narrative would withstand review by an engineer, adjudicator, or arbitral tribunal on a live GCC project dispute.
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Course Outcome
On completing this course, you will be able to select and apply recognised delay-analysis methodologies, build a defensible evidence base, navigate the FIDIC and NEC claims interface, quantify prolongation and disruption costs, and produce a forensic planning report that withstands scrutiny — capabilities directly applicable to planning engineer, project controls, contract manager, and claims consultant roles across major construction and infrastructure disputes in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and the wider GCC.