Owners and NOCs
Defence of contractor claims; preparation of employer claims for delay, defective work and interface failure; settlement strategy on live programmes.
Contractual claims
Evidence-led delay and claims assessment
We examine the project record to establish what occurred, how it affected execution, and the associated schedule and cost consequences. Our assessments combine construction knowledge with structured analysis of programmes, correspondence, changes and supporting records.
What we take on
Schedule delay assessments on fabrication and installation — read against construction methodology, sequencing and the technical parameters of the job, not only against a programme. Delay and disruption. Variation and remeasurement. Yard-slot and productivity claims. Incoming contractor claims that need a defence file, not a reaction. Subcontract close-out that has stalled in correspondence.
A generalist claims consultancy often misses the method: how the unit is sequenced, what the yard can actually do, which technical constraint caused the delay. That is the difference. We are not a law firm. We prepare the technical, commercial and factual case that provides a path to resolution, thus mitigating the need for engaging counsel.
Claims advisory process
Four stages. A defined output at each.
Each stage has a defined written output. The method holds for a live subcontract, a delay assessment or a settlement mandate.
01
Review project information
Output
Information-gap register
02
Assess options and risks
Output
Assessment matrix
03
Develop recommendations
Output
Recommendation report
04
Support implementation or resolution
Output
Agreed support plan
How a claim file is built
01
File intake
Contract, programmes, correspondence, site diaries, change logs, cost and the contemporaneous record. We say early whether the file will support a claim, a defence, or a negotiated commercial close.
02
Cause, effect, particulars
The narrative is built from the record, not from recollection — and from how the work is built. Each head of claim is particularised: what happened, which clause, which delay or disruption, which construction method or sequence was missed, which quantum path.
03
Quantum
Time, money and disruption measured with construction methodology, sequencing and the same analytics we use on tenders — productivity, remeasurement, cost-to-complete. Numbers a commercial manager can take into a settlement meeting.
04
Dossier
A claim file written to be settled. If the matter proceeds, the same dossier is the foundation for counsel. We do not write theatre for a tribunal on day one.
05
Negotiation and settlement
We stay on the mandate through commercial negotiation of contract and subcontract claims, including without-prejudice options and a recommended landing zone.
EPC and EPCI
Main-contract claims, subcontract recovery, disruption in the yard and at sea, and the commercial close of packages that have outrun the estimate.
Yards and specialists
Slot, variation and free-issue claims; productivity disputes; negotiation of settlement on fabrication subcontracts.