Grounded in published reports, case law, and public arbitration outcomes, not invented statistics. Written for people who read Particular Conditions for a living. 29 articles.
Late notice, no records, global claims, concurrency, and no entitlement basis. The Engineer's five standard defences, and the habit that neutralises each one before the claim is written.
What a time-bar is, how to recognise one in your contract, how it differs from a soft notice requirement, and the five things that determine whether it bites.
A hindrance entry the Authority Engineer has signed is a shared fact. One they have not is your assertion. The gap between those two decides more Indian EOT claims than any clause.
Your subcontract mirrors the main contract's time-bars downward, usually with a shorter window so the main contractor can pass your notice up. One event, two clocks, and the second one is yours to lose.
Time and money are argued separately, proved separately, and won separately. Winning one does not win the other. Here is how the two claims relate and where teams conflate them.
The structure an Authority Engineer expects to receive: a covering application, a statement of hindrances, the contractual basis, the period sought, and annexures that match. With a skeleton you can adapt.
The 28-day notice survived. Almost everything around it was rebuilt: a longer detailed-claim window with its own time-bar, a formal agreement-or-determination step, and a claims clause that now binds the Employer too.
A global claim asks for a total without linking each cause to each effect. It is the claim you end up with when the register was not kept. Here is what it is, why it fails, and how to avoid writing one.
Rate, period, cap, and the four questions that come before the arithmetic. With a worked example, and the reason a missed notice quietly changes which side of the sum you are on.
A working structure for the fully detailed claim: eight sections, what goes in each, and the three habits that make an Engineer read it as a claim rather than a complaint.
The columns, the discipline, the countersignature, and a template you can copy. Written for the planning engineer who will be asked for this register two years from now.
The short protective letter that keeps the right alive: what it must contain, what it must not, and a one-page structure with reference numbering that survives an audit two years later.
What each formula does, what inputs it needs, what tribunals have said about them, and why a claims tool should name them for the expert to choose rather than calculate them.
Two families of Indian government contract, two engineers, two vocabularies, and the same hindrance register underneath. Where the procedures diverge and what a team working both needs to keep separate.
Reduced hours in the Gulf, reduced days in India. Both change how many working days a notice window contains and how much a hindrance actually cost in output. Here is how to model them without overclaiming.
What a complete claim file contains, category by category, with the question to ask about each. Print it, pin it in the site office, and run it per event.
Eight live projects, three contract families, two weekend profiles, and a consultant you can only afford after the fight begins. A working system for the weeks in between.
Both insert a delay into a programme and measure the shift. The difference is which programme, and that difference decides whether an Engineer treats the result as evidence or as theory.
Fourteen categories of record, ordered by how often their absence sinks a claim. Which ones the site must create as they go, and which can be collected later.
On the strict reading, the entitlement is extinguished. Here is what that actually means, the arguments contractors reach for afterwards, and why most of them fail.
Extension of Time, explained from first principles: why it exists, what it does and does not give you, how it is claimed, and the one deadline that decides most of them.
Contractor claims against NHAI worth Rs 88,100 crore over five years, roughly 36 percent of value awarded on settled cases, and a system that only starts documenting when the fight is already formal.
Timestamped, geolocated, photographed, and written before anyone was thinking about a claim. The site group is contemporaneous evidence in its purest form. Here is how to preserve it properly.
A January 2026 Privy Council ruling just confirmed, again, that this clause means exactly what it says. Here is how the clock actually runs, and where it usually gets missed.
NHAI is winning arbitration after arbitration on the strength of its own documentation. Here is what a hindrance register needs to contain to hold up the other way.
The average US construction dispute is now worth $60.1 million. The three causes behind most of them have not changed in a decade.
The SCL Protocol lists six accepted ways to prove a delay's effect on completion. They are not interchangeable, and picking the wrong one weakens a good claim.
It is the single most argued doctrine in delay claims, and most contractors only learn how it works after someone has already used it against them.
A missed 28-day window does not just lose you the extension. It can quietly convert a genuine excusable delay into a culpable one, LD clause and all.
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