How we research, label and review

The source hierarchy

1. Primary and official: legislation, civil codes, procedural and evidence rules, government contract clauses, official judgments and recognised public repositories, standard-form publishers, current institutional arbitration rules.
2. Technical and professional: the SCL Protocol, RICS practice information, AACE recommended practices, ASCE standards, CIOB guidance.
3. Leading commentary: peer-reviewed work, construction-law chambers and firms, recognised consultancies, used for explanation and for discovery.
4. Orientation only: unsourced blogs, marketing pages, AI summaries and crowd-edited entries. These may suggest a search term and can never support a legal proposition.

The five labels

Primary law, judgment, contract text, technical guidance and commentary. They appear beside propositions throughout the site because a judgment, a clause and a consultant’s article are not the same currency, and a layout that presents them identically is misleading whatever the words say.

Minimum citation standard

• Legal proposition: the primary statute, code or judgment wherever it is public.
• Contract proposition: the exact form, edition and clause, with the amendment caveat, and no reproduction of licensed wording.
• Technical proposition: edition and section, labelled as non-binding.
• GCC proposition: country, system, source type, binding status, original language and translation provenance.
• Case result: the primary judgment plus an appeal and subsequent-treatment check.
• Common practice: named evidence. Never consensus language without support.

What this site does not yet have

It does not yet have a named legal review board, and no page has been signed off by an independent lawyer or by an external delay or quantum expert. Every substantive page therefore carries the editorial status "not yet independently reviewed". That statement will change page by page as reviews happen, and not before.

The go-live gates for the full programme

1. Named lawyers approve each jurisdiction page and the applicable transitional law.
2. Delay and quantum experts reproduce the models and worked examples.
3. Every case citation, appeal history and quotation passes independent checking.
4. Licensed standards and contract text are lawfully acquired or summarised within permission.
5. Arabic-primary GCC material is reviewed by qualified counsel and a legal translator.
6. Any tool passes privacy, security, adversarial and false-assurance testing.
7. Accessibility and usability testing includes both beginners and expert users.

Review cadence

• Statutes, codes and procedural rules: six monthly, and on any enactment or commencement.
• Standard contracts: six monthly, and on a new edition.
• Jurisdiction cornerstones: six monthly, and on an appellate decision.
• Case studies: annually, and on appeal or negative treatment.
• Technical standards: annually, and on a new edition.
• Commentary links: an annual check that the underlying primary source has not moved.

Independence and interest

This site is published by AI Metric Ltd, which builds bespoke automation and AI systems, alongside Construction Metric, which sells record-keeping software. That commercial interest is stated on every page rather than buried here. Nothing on the site is gated, and no page requires an email address to read.