Expert Reports
Quantum, Delay, Disruption and Professional Negligence Expert Reports
Independent expert opinion and analysis for construction disputes involving disputed valuation, payment, delay, disruption, loss, retention, damages and professional negligence issues.
Reports prepared for adjudication, litigation, arbitration, mediation, settlement discussions and insurance-related claims.
When to consider
When an expert report may be needed
Where a construction dispute affects payment, valuation, delay, disruption or professional negligence, the recovery position depends on more than assertion.
An independent expert report helps turn disputed sums, records and technical issues into a structured opinion that can be used to pursue financial recovery, defend a claim, support settlement or prepare for adjudication, litigation, arbitration or mediation.
Typical disputes include:
- Disputed valuations, variations or final account sums
- Payment, retention, loss and expense or damages claims
- Delay events, programme impact or critical path issues
- Disruption, productivity loss or inefficient working
- Professional negligence allegations involving valuation, certification, notices, payment assessment, final account handling or contract administration
- Adjudication, litigation, arbitration, mediation, settlement or insurance-related claims
Expert report services
Four core report disciplines
Quantum Expert Reports
Independent quantum opinion and analysis for disputes involving valuation, variations, payment, final account sums, loss and expense, retention, damages and related financial issues.
Typical issues include:
- Valuation of disputed works
- Variation and change account assessment
- Payment, withholding or deduction issues
- Final account sums
- Loss and expense
- Prolongation cost
- Retention valuation or release
- Damages or contra-charge assessment
- Financial assessment of claimed sums
- Valuation or cost records relied on for the disputed sums
Delay Expert Reports
Independent delay opinion and analysis for disputes involving delay events, causation, programme impact, critical path, periods of delay and concurrency.
Typical issues include:
- Delay events and alleged causes of delay
- Baseline, updated and as-built programmes
- Actual progress and project chronology
- Programme impact and critical path
- Periods of delay
- Concurrency
- Delay analysis methodology
- Time-related issues for EOT or delay claims
- Delay records relied on
- Limitations in the programme or delay evidence
Disruption Expert Reports
Independent disruption opinion and analysis for disputes involving productivity loss, inefficient working, access constraints, sequencing issues, labour or resource impact and disrupted progress.
Typical issues include:
- Disruptive events and their alleged effect
- Productivity loss
- Inefficient working
- Labour, plant or resource impact
- Access, sequencing or workface constraints
- Disruption methodology
- Site records and productivity evidence
- Link between disruption events and claimed loss
- Alternative causes, unaffected work or non-compensable factors
Professional Negligence Expert Reports
Independent opinion and analysis for professional negligence disputes involving quantity surveying, valuation, certification, payment assessment, final account, contract administration and professional practice issues.
Typical issues include:
- Professional role, appointment and scope of services
- Professional practice within the expert's discipline
- Valuation, assessment or certification issues
- Payment assessment or final account handling
- Contract administration issues
- Notice, record or advice issues
- Alleged acts or omissions within the expert's field
- Technical causation or loss issues
- Matters outside the expert's discipline
Need an independent expert report?
Talk through the dispute, the issues to be assessed, the intended use of the report and the records available. We will help identify the appropriate report scope and next step.