ABSTRACT
Delay-related money claims could be made by either the contractor or the employer. They could also be claims under the contract or in damages at common law, for breach. The fact that preliminaries can be recovered via individual variations is often overlooked in the contractor's claims for delay-related losses. The time-related costs claimed should be those which were incurred at the time the relevant critical delay was incurred, not the average costs per day or per week over the whole contract. The contractor claimed the weekly general site overheads. The judge said: a claim for damages on account of delays to construction work is rather different. 'Disruption' is the industry term for claims for losses caused by the 'disturbance of the contractor's regular and economic progress and/or delay to a non-critical activity even though, on occasion, there is no or only a small ultimate delay in completion'.
