Ted Scott and Meera Wagman | Global Arbitration Review This is an extract from the 2022 edition of The Arbitration Review of the Americas. The whole publication is available here. In summary This article will address how concurrent delay is defined and how it is applied in different parts of the Americas. It will also discuss pitfalls,… Continue reading Concurrent Delay in the Americas: Is There a Continental Shift?
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Shifting The Risk Of Delay By Having Float Go Your Way
Christopher J. Brasco and Matthew D. Baker | ConsensusDocs Critical path delay plays a central role in allocating responsibility for project delay. The interrelated concept of concurrency is also frequently determinative of entitlement on a range of claims including by owners for liquidated damages and by contractors for delay damages. What constitutes critical/concurrent delay, however,… Continue reading Shifting The Risk Of Delay By Having Float Go Your Way
The Claim Process – Concurrent Delays: Understanding the Impact on Delay Claims
Amandeep Kahlon | Bradley Arant boult Cummings A delay is “concurrent” is a delay to the critical path of the project caused by multiple events not exclusively controlled by one party. If you are impacted by a delay to the critical path that was not within your control but are responsible for another overlapping delay to… Continue reading The Claim Process – Concurrent Delays: Understanding the Impact on Delay Claims
Contractor’s Burden When It Comes To Delay
David Adelstein | Florida Construction Legal Updates When a contractor is challenging the assessment of liquidated damages, or arguing that it is entitled to extended general conditions, the contractor bears a burden of proof to establish there were excusable delays that impacted the critical path and, in certain scenarios, the delays were not concurrent with contractor-caused delay: When delays are excusable,… Continue reading Contractor’s Burden When It Comes To Delay
Delay Days for Liquidated Damages May Be Apportioned Where Permitted by Contract
Geoff F. Palachuk | Lane Powell Overlapping delays partly caused by a contractor and partly by an owner — known as concurrent delays — typically nullify the assessment of liquidated damages in a breach of contract dispute. But a contractor generally will be held liable for liquidated damages if the contractor cannot establish proof of… Continue reading Delay Days for Liquidated Damages May Be Apportioned Where Permitted by Contract