EOT: Delay Analysis & Time Claims
2 - 3 FEBRUARY 2027
COURSE INTRODUCTION
Construction delays can lead to disputes over completion dates, entitlement and delay damages. This practical, case-based programme helps planning, contracts and project delivery professionals identify delay events, assess their contractual basis and prepare a substantiated Extension of Time (EOT) claim. Participants work from baseline-programme review through delay analysis and claim submission, linking cause, effect and critical-path impact with appropriate records. The course covers standard contract forms, notice requirements, recognised analysis methods, concurrent delay and claim narratives through anonymised project scenarios, schedule exercises and a guided drafting workshop.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of this programme, participants should be able to:
- Explain the contractual basis of EOT, including the prevention principle and time at large.
- Classify excusable, non-excusable, compensable and non-compensable delays.
- Identify notice requirements, time bars and procedural obligations for EOT submissions.
- Describe recognised methodologies under the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol and AACE RP 29R-03.
- Establish the relationship between delay events and critical-path impact.
- Identify the records and evidence needed to substantiate a claim.
- Evaluate concurrent delay, float ownership and their implications for EOT entitlement.
- Structure an EOT claim narrative with supporting schedule analysis.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Planning engineers, project planners, contract administrators and executives, quantity surveyors, project managers, project controls executives, site engineers, construction managers, consultants, claims professionals, and legal or commercial personnel involved in construction contract administration.
Participants should have a basic understanding of construction project delivery and contract administration. Scheduling knowledge and experience in planning, contracts, quantity surveying or site management are helpful but not mandatory. No prior formal delay analysis training is required.
COURSE CONTENT
- Session 1: Introduction to Extension of Time - purpose of EOT; EOT versus loss and expense; contractual and common-law bases; the prevention principle and time at large; overview of PAM, PWD203A/JKR, FIDIC and NEC contract forms.
- Session 2: Types and causes of delay - excusable and non-excusable delay; compensable and non-compensable delay; employer and contractor risk events; common site causes of delay.
- Session 3: Contractual notices and procedures - notice-of-delay requirements, time-bar provisions, particulars and supporting information, and consequences of late or non-compliant notices.
- Session 4: Baseline schedule and programme fundamentals - approved baseline programmes, work breakdown structures, activity coding, critical path, float and programme-quality checks for claims readiness.
- Session 5: Delay analysis methodologies - SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol (2nd Edition, 2017) and AACE RP 29R-03 Forensic Schedule Analysis; impacted as-planned and time impact analysis; retrospective methods and selection of an appropriate approach.
- Session 6: Concurrent delay and float ownership - concurrent delay principles, float ownership, pacing delay and apportionment approaches.
- Session 7: Evidence and record-keeping - site diaries, progress records, correspondence and instructions, photographs, weather records and building a robust supporting evidence file.
- Session 8: EOT claim preparation and submission - structuring the claim narrative, linking cause and effect, quantifying time impact, submission format, supporting schedule analysis and common reasons for claim rejection.
Practical learning includes anonymised project case studies, as-planned versus as-built schedule exercises, a guided EOT claim drafting workshop, group discussion and Q&A.
