ABSTRACT
Contractor submits an EOT claim when he faces a serious delay in the contract completion dates. For the preparation of the EOT claim, he engages a Professional consultant. Three main categories for the claim appear: (1) Owner review delays on engineering deliverables, (2) man-power increase in the construction Site arising from complex situations, wherein Owner-caused delays are seen, and (3) Site conditions change from bidding basis.
Item (3) from the above may correspond to delays in access road, harder subsoil conditions, stringent security regulation unforeseen during bidding, working hours reduction, which was not foreseen at the bidding, and lack of inspectors resulting in delayed inspections of critical installations at Site.
An EOT claim has two components of costs: (1) Disruption Cost and (2) Prolongation Cost; these are elaborated in Appendix 9 and Chapter 14.
A scheduling strategy to designate the Owner’s task as a constraint in the level 3 detailed baseline schedule will immensely help Contractor to identify the delays in a critical path in every monthly update.
