ABSTRACT
The Society of Construction Law's Delay and Disruption Protocol was first published in 2002. The intention was to provide a scheme whereby delay could be better controlled and managed during the construction process. Following the publication on the 1 July 2015 of an intermediary update known as Rider 1, the Second Edition of the Protocol was release in February 2017. The original Protocol recommended that one particular form of delay analysis, namely the time-impact form of delay analysis methodology, be used wherever the circumstances permitted. Whereas the original Protocol made no mention of the 'windows' form of delay analysis, it has become one of the most used forms of delay analysis, arguably because it is considered to be one of the most reliable. The Society of Construction Law says that the approach to concurrent delay in the original Protocol has been amended in the Second Edition to reflect case law.
