Blog | Robert Gemmell

BLOGS

The following are the blogs/articles that Robert has posted on LinkedIn:

Article 011: Concurrent Delay and the AS Forms

To date, I have written four articles on concurrent delay. The first provided an overview of concurrent delay (007), the second...

Article 010: Approaches to assess contributory causes of delay and additional cost

To date, I have written three articles on concurrent delay. The first provided an overview (007), the second identified what is not...

Article 009: Concurrent delay and the prevention principle

This article looks at the interrelationship between the ‘prevention principle’ and concurrent delay. As set out in my previous article...

Article 008: Concurrent delay: it is not parallelism or pacing

My previous article (article 007), on concurrent delay briefly explored what concurrent delay is. To recap, the concurrent delay...

Article 007: What is concurrent delay? An overview

My previous article 006 provided an overview of the different types of delay that can occur on construction projects, namely:...

Article 006: Construction project delays 101 – plus concurrency!

There are several different types of delay that can occur during the progress of the works on a construction project, each of which,...

Article 005: Float: what is float, who owns the float, and how is float different to contingency?

What is float? The Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol second edition 2017, (“SCL Protocol”)[1] defines float as...

Article 004: ‘Prevention’ causing ‘time at large’: what does this all mean?

“Time at large” is a common law principle which means that the contract date for completion becomes ineffective. The contractor’s...

Article 003: Comply with the notice provisions in the contract, or else…

My first two articles covered why it is necessary to distinguish between delay and disruption and what that distinction is (Article 001),...

Article 002: A global claim is doomed to fail, unless…

A contractor may decide to claim the net difference between actual and planned costs and allege that the difference was caused by the...

Article 001: Why is it necessary to distinguish between delay and disruption?

Delay and disruption are endemic in the construction industry and lead to time and cost overruns. It is therefore essential that delays...