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Editorial roadmap

What is published, what is planned, and what is deliberately not

The publication plan holds 178 pages. 53 of them exist today, and the rest are listed here rather than published as thin pages. A page appears when somebody has done the work, not when a slot needs filling.

53

Pages published

125

Pages planned and openly listed

0

Pages independently reviewed by a named lawyer or expert

Why the roadmap is public

Two reasons, and both are about trust. A reader can see the boundary of what this site has actually done, which matters far more on a legal reference than a longer index would. And publishing the plan makes it harder for us to quietly fill it with pages that add nothing, which is the failure mode of every large reference site.

The third number above is the honest one. No page here has been signed off by an independent lawyer or an external delay or quantum expert yet, which is why every substantive page says so in its provenance strip.

Published

PageTypeAudienceJurisdiction
The Global Delay & Quantum Reviewlandingallglobal
Start here: delay, disruption and quantumcourse-hubbeginnerglobal
Delay, disruption and quantum explainedguidebeginnerglobal
How a construction delay claim worksguidebeginnerglobal
Critical path and float without the jargonguidebeginnerglobal
An extension of time is not automatically moneyguidebeginnerglobal
Delay: principles and proofhubpractitionerglobal
Critical path: calculated and factualguidepractitionerglobal
Float: ownership, use and proofguidepractitionercomparative
Concurrent delay: four regions, no universal rulecornerstoneallcomparative
The prevention principle by jurisdictionguidepractitionercomparative
Delay analysis methodshuballglobal
Choose a method by question and evidencetool-guidepractitionerglobal
Time-impact analysismethodpractitionerglobal
Windows and time-slice analysismethodpractitionerglobal
As-planned versus as-builtmethodpractitionerglobal
Impacted as-plannedmethodpractitionerglobal
Collapsed as-built or but-for analysismethodexpertglobal
As-built critical-path analysismethodexpertglobal
Daily delay measuremethodexpertglobal
Quantum: proving recoverable costhuballglobal
Prolongation: time-related cost provedcornerstonepractitionercomparative
Disruption and productivity losscornerstoneallcomparative
Loss and expense under UK contractsguidepractitionerEngland and Wales
Construction damages: causation to recoveryguidepractitionercomparative
The measured mile and comparabilitymethodpractitionerglobal
Avoiding double recoveryguidepractitionerglobal
Contemporaneous recordshuballglobal
Build the claim while building the projectcornerstoneallglobal
Daily site records that prove factsguide-templatesite-teamglobal
Programme updates and narrativesguide-templateplannerglobal
Records health checkchecklistsite-teamglobal
Contract mechanisms for time and moneyhuballcomparative
Notices and time barscornerstoneallcomparative
Extension-of-time mechanismsguidepractitionercomparative
Liquidated damages, caps and terminationguidepractitionercomparative
Governing law, seat and forumguideallcomparative
FIDIC time, claims and cost mechanismscontract-hubpractitionerglobal
NEC4 early warning, compensation events and timecontract-hubpractitionerUK/international
JCT 2024 delay, time and loss and expensecontract-hubpractitionerEngland and Wales
Compare delay and quantum lawhuballcomparative
England and Wales: delay and quantumjurisdiction-huballEngland and Wales
United States: federal and state mapjurisdiction-huballUnited States
Australia: contract, state and evidencejurisdiction-huballAustralia
GCC construction delay: read this firstjurisdiction-huballGCC
Expert evidence in delay and quantum disputeshuballcomparative
Construction delay and quantum case studieslibrary-huballcomparative
Delay and quantum glossarydefined-term-setallglobal
Reference librarysource-libraryallglobal
Authority and source registersource-libraryexpertglobal
How we research, label and reviewpolicyallglobal
Corrections and version historypolicyallglobal
Legal, privacy and tool limitationspolicyallglobal

Planned

Release 1 is the authority slate, release 2 adds depth, release 3 is the compounding material. Case studies carry an extra gate: the primary judgment has to be read, the citation and appeal history checked, and the note written independently before anything is published.

Release 1: 27 pages

Working titlePathTypeReview requiredStatus
How to read a construction programme/start-here/read-a-construction-programmeguidedelaybrief-ready
Construction notices for beginners/guides/beginner/noticesguidelegalbrief-ready
Causation: from event to time and cost/guides/beginner/causationguidelegal+technicalsample-ready
Contemporaneous records: the beginner's guide/guides/beginner/contemporaneous-recordsguidedelay+quantumsample-ready
Federal construction delay claims/jurisdictions/united-states/federal-contractsjurisdiction-guideUS federal lawyerbrief-ready
UAE delay and quantum after the 2025 Civil Transactions Law/jurisdictions/gcc/uaejurisdiction-guideUAE counsel+Arabic reviewerbrief-ready
Saudi construction delay and the Civil Transactions Law/jurisdictions/gcc/saudi-arabiajurisdiction-guideSaudi counsel+Arabic reviewerbrief-ready
Independence and the expert's duty/expert-evidence/independence-and-dutyguidelawyersbrief-ready
Walter Lilly v Mackay/case-studies/walter-lilly-v-mackaycase-studyUK lawyer+expertssource-verified
White Constructions v PBS Holdings/case-studies/white-constructions-v-pbscase-studyNSW lawyer+delaysource-verified
Santos v Fluor: delay, disruption and quantum/case-studies/santos-v-fluorcase-seriesQLD lawyer+expertsprimary-review-required
Van Oord v Allseas/case-studies/van-oord-v-allseascase-studyUK lawyer+expertssource-verified
Obrascon v Gibraltar/case-studies/obrascon-v-gibraltarcase-studyUK lawyer+delaysource-verified
North Midland v Cyden Homes/case-studies/north-midland-v-cydencase-studyUK lawyersource-verified
Sauer v Danzig/case-studies/sauer-v-danzigcase-studyUS federal lawyer+delaysource-verified
P.J. Dick v Principi/case-studies/pj-dick-v-principicase-studyUS federal lawyer+quantumsource-verified
Howard Contracting v G.A. MacDonald/case-studies/howard-contractingcase-studyCalifornia lawyer+delaysource-verified
CMA Assets v John Holland/case-studies/cma-assets-v-john-hollandcase-studyWA lawyer+expertsprimary-review-required
V601 Developments v Probuild/case-studies/v601-v-probuildcase-studyVictoria lawyer+delayprimary-review-required
Triple Point v PTT/case-studies/triple-point-v-pttcase-studyUK lawyersource-verified
Thomas Barnes v Blackburn/case-studies/thomas-barnes-v-blackburncase-studyUK lawyer+delayprimary-review-required
Multiplex v Honeywell (No 2)/case-studies/multiplex-v-honeywellcase-studyUK lawyer+delaysource-verified
Blinderman Construction v United States/case-studies/blinderman-v-united-statescase-studyUS federal lawyer+delaysource-verified
Lucas Earthmovers v AngloGold Ashanti/case-studies/lucas-earthmovers-v-anglogoldcase-studyAustralian lawyer+quantumsource-verified
Probuild v DDI Group/case-studies/probuild-v-ddicase-studyNSW lawyer+delaysource-verified
Free construction contract issue-spotter/tools/contract-reviewertoolproduct+legal+securityspec-ready
Reviewers, credentials and conflicts/about/reviewers-and-conflictspolicygovernancebrief-ready

Release 2: 93 pages

Working titlePathTypeReview requiredStatus
The ten-day delay and quantum course/start-here/ten-day-learning-pathcourseeditorial+technicalplanned
Liquidated damages explained/guides/beginner/liquidated-damagesguidelegalbrief-ready
When and how to appoint a delay or quantum expert/guides/beginner/appointing-an-expertguidelegal+technicalbrief-ready
Advanced delay and quantum research/guides/advancedhubtechnical+legalbrief-ready
Designing defensible windows/guides/advanced/windows-and-time-slicesguidedelaybrief-ready
Forensic schedule data validation/guides/advanced/schedule-data-validationguidedelay+databrief-ready
Competing models of concurrent delay/guides/advanced/concurrency-modelsguidelegal+delaybrief-ready
Apportionment by jurisdiction/guides/advanced/apportionmentguidelegalplanned
Global and total-cost claims/guides/advanced/global-and-total-cost-claimsguidelegal+quantumbrief-ready
Home-office overhead methods and law/guides/advanced/home-office-overheadguidelegal+quantumbrief-ready
Reproducible delay and quantum models/guides/advanced/expert-model-reproducibilityguidetechnical+legalbrief-ready
Mitigation of construction delay/delay/mitigationguidelegal+delaybrief-ready
Directed, agreed and constructive acceleration/delay/accelerationguidelegal+delay+quantumbrief-ready
Suspension and compensable delay/delay/suspensionguidelegalplanned
Early-completion schedules and claims/delay/early-completionguidelegal+delayplanned
Earned value and work sampling/quantum/earned-value-and-work-samplingmethodquantumplanned
Total-cost and modified total-cost claims/quantum/total-cost-and-modified-total-costmethodlegal+quantumbrief-ready
Site overhead and preliminaries/quantum/site-overheadsguidequantumbrief-ready
Head-office overhead by jurisdiction/quantum/head-office-overheadsguidelegal+quantumbrief-ready
Financing cost and interest/quantum/financing-and-interestguidelegal+quantumplanned
Cost escalation and delay/quantum/escalationguidelegal+quantumbrief-ready
Resource, quantity and cost records/records/resource-and-cost-recordsguide-templatequantumbrief-ready
Correspondence, notices and minutes/records/correspondence-notices-minutesguide-templatelegalbrief-ready
Photographs, BIM and metadata as evidence/records/photographs-bim-and-metadataguideevidence+databrief-ready
The event-to-cost evidence graph/records/evidence-graphtool-guidetechnical+legalsample-ready
Concurrency and float drafting/contracts/concurrency-and-float-clausesguidelegal+delaybrief-ready
Variation and change mechanisms/contracts/variation-and-changeguidelegal+quantumbrief-ready
Where delay-cost entitlement lives/contracts/delay-cost-entitlementguidelegal+quantumbrief-ready
No-damages-for-delay clauses/contracts/no-damages-for-delayguidelegalbrief-ready
Waiver, release and final payment/contracts/waiver-release-and-final-paymentguidelegalplanned
AIA delay and claims mechanisms/contracts/forms/aiacontract-hublegalbrief-ready
ConsensusDocs notices and delay/contracts/forms/consensusdocscontract-hublegalplanned
AS 4000:2025 and legacy editions/contracts/forms/as-4000contract-hublegal+delaybrief-ready
Concurrent delay in England and Wales/jurisdictions/united-kingdom/concurrent-delayjurisdiction-guideUK lawyer+delaybrief-ready
Notices and time bars in England and Wales/jurisdictions/united-kingdom/noticesjurisdiction-guideUK lawyerbrief-ready
CPR 35 for delay and quantum experts/jurisdictions/united-kingdom/expert-evidencejurisdiction-guideUK lawyerbrief-ready
State-by-state delay-law map/jurisdictions/united-states/state-law-mapinteractive-guidestate lawyersplanned
No-damages-for-delay by state/jurisdictions/united-states/no-damages-for-delayjurisdiction-guidestate lawyersbrief-ready
Eichleay and unabsorbed overhead/jurisdictions/united-states/eichleay-overheadsjurisdiction-guideUS federal lawyer+quantumbrief-ready
Federal Rule 702 for delay and quantum experts/jurisdictions/united-states/expert-evidence-rule-702jurisdiction-guideUS litigatorbrief-ready
Australian state and territory map/jurisdictions/australia/state-territory-mapinteractive-guidestate lawyersplanned
Prevention and time bars in Australia/jurisdictions/australia/prevention-and-time-barsjurisdiction-guidestate lawyersbrief-ready
Delay methods and factual causation in Australia/jurisdictions/australia/methods-and-causationjurisdiction-guideAustralian lawyer+delaybrief-ready
Delay claims and security of payment/jurisdictions/australia/security-of-payment-interfacejurisdiction-guidestate lawyersbrief-ready
Qatar construction delay and quantum/jurisdictions/gcc/qatarjurisdiction-guideQatar counsel+Arabic reviewerbrief-ready
Bahrain construction delay and quantum/jurisdictions/gcc/bahrainjurisdiction-guideBahrain counsel+Arabic reviewerplanned
Oman construction delay and quantum/jurisdictions/gcc/omanjurisdiction-guideOman counsel+Arabic reviewerplanned
Kuwait construction delay and quantum/jurisdictions/gcc/kuwaitjurisdiction-guideKuwait counsel+Arabic reviewerplanned
FIDIC-derived contracts across the GCC/jurisdictions/gcc/fidic-in-the-gcccomparative-guideGCC counsel+FIDIC expertbrief-ready
GCC arbitration, evidence and confidential awards/jurisdictions/gcc/arbitration-and-evidenceguidearbitration counselbrief-ready
Instructions, assumptions and data/expert-evidence/instructions-assumptions-and-dataguidelawyers+expertsbrief-ready
A reproducible expert report/expert-evidence/report-architectureguide-templatelawyers+expertsbrief-ready
Joint statements and narrowing issues/expert-evidence/joint-statementsguidelawyersplanned
How delay and quantum opinions fail under cross-examination/expert-evidence/cross-examinationguidelawyers+expertsbrief-ready
Corinno Civetta v City of New York/case-studies/corinno-civettacase-studyNew York lawyerprimary-review-required
Dasreef v Hawchar/case-studies/dasreef-v-hawcharcase-studyAustralian evidence lawyersource-verified
Amey LG v Cumbria County Council/case-studies/amey-v-cumbriacase-studyUK lawyer+quantumprimary-review-required
Great Eastern Hotel v John Laing/case-studies/great-eastern-hotel-v-john-laingcase-studyUK lawyer+expertsprimary-review-required
Adyard Abu Dhabi v SD Marine Services/case-studies/adyard-abu-dhabi-v-sd-marinecase-studyUK lawyer+delayprimary-review-required
Motherwell Bridge v Micafil/case-studies/motherwell-bridge-v-micafilcase-studyUK lawyer+expertsprimary-review-required
Henry Boot v Malmaison Hotel/case-studies/henry-boot-v-malmaisoncase-studyUK lawyer+delayprimary-review-required
City Inn v Shepherd Construction/case-studies/city-inn-v-shepherdcase-studyScottish lawyer+delayprimary-review-required
Energy Works (Hull) v MW High Tech Projects/case-studies/energy-works-hull-v-mw-high-techcase-studyUK lawyer+quantumcitation-and-scope-gate
Essex Electro Engineers v Danzig/case-studies/essex-electro-v-danzigcase-studyUS federal lawyer+delayprimary-review-required
Kinetic Builder's v Peters/case-studies/kinetic-builders-v-peterscase-studyUS federal lawyer+delayprimary-review-required
Commerce International v United States/case-studies/commerce-international-v-united-statescase-studyUS federal lawyer+quantumprimary-review-required
Coath & Goss v United States/case-studies/coath-and-goss-v-united-statescase-studyUS federal lawyerprimary-review-required
William F. Klingensmith v United States/case-studies/klingensmith-v-united-statescase-studyUS federal lawyer+quantumprimary-review-required
Greg Opinski Construction v City of Oakdale/case-studies/greg-opinski-v-oakdalecase-studyCalifornia lawyerprimary-review-required
Bovis Lend Lease v Lower Manhattan Development Corp/case-studies/bovis-v-lower-manhattancase-studyNew York lawyerprimary-review-required
Triple R Paving v Broward County/case-studies/triple-r-paving-v-browardcase-studyFlorida lawyerprimary-review-required
Spiers Earthworks v Landtec Projects (No 2)/case-studies/spiers-earthworks-v-landteccase-studyWA lawyer+delayprimary-review-required
Kane Constructions v Sopov/case-studies/kane-constructions-v-sopovcase-studyVictoria lawyer+delayprimary-review-required
John Holland Construction v Kvaerner RJ Brown/case-studies/john-holland-v-kvaernercase-studyQLD lawyer+expertsprimary-review-required
Walton Construction v Illawarra Hotel Company/case-studies/walton-v-illawarra-hotelcase-studyNSW lawyer+quantumprimary-review-required
Abigroup Contractors v Sydney Catchment Authority/case-studies/abigroup-v-sydney-catchmentcase-studyNSW lawyer+quantumprimary-review-required
Mainteck Services v Stein Heurtey/case-studies/mainteck-v-stein-heurteycase-studyNSW lawyer+quantumprimary-review-required
DM Drainage v Karara Mining/case-studies/dm-drainage-v-karara-miningcase-studyWA lawyer+quantumprimary-review-required
Built Environs WA v Perth Airport/case-studies/built-environs-v-perth-airportcase-studyWA lawyer+quantumcitation-and-scope-gate
Dura Constructions v Hue Boutique Living/case-studies/dura-v-hue-boutique-livingcase-studyVictoria evidence lawyercitation-and-scope-gate
Alexanderson Earthmover v Civil Mining & Construction/case-studies/alexanderson-v-civil-miningcase-studyQLD lawyer+quantumcitation-and-scope-gate
Rimfire Energy v BSF/case-studies/rimfire-energy-v-bsfcase-studystate lawyer+expertscitation-and-jurisdiction-gate
Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal v Monadelphous Engineering/case-studies/wiggins-island-v-monadelphouscase-studyQLD lawyer+quantumcitation-and-scope-gate
UAE 2025 Civil Transactions Law transition scenario/case-studies/gcc/uae-2025-law-transitionteaching-dossierUAE counsel+Arabic reviewercode-analysis-not-precedent
UAE exceptional-circumstances issue map/case-studies/gcc/uae-exceptional-circumstancesteaching-dossierUAE counsel+Arabic reviewercode-analysis-not-precedent
Saudi Civil Transactions Law and FIDIC notice/case-studies/gcc/saudi-fidic-noticeteaching-dossierSaudi counsel+Arabic reviewercode-analysis-not-precedent
Qatar hardship and materials escalation/case-studies/gcc/qatar-hardship-escalationteaching-dossierQatar counsel+Arabic reviewercode-analysis-not-precedent
Engineer determination, good faith and time bar/case-studies/gcc/engineer-determination-time-barteaching-dossiercountry counsel+FIDIC expertcontract-code-analysis-not-precedent
Mainland UAE, DIFC and ADGM forum decision tree/case-studies/gcc/mainland-free-zone-forumteaching-dossierUAE/DIFC/ADGM counselsystem-comparison-not-precedent
Arabic-English contract conflict and translation evidence/case-studies/gcc/bilingual-contract-evidenceteaching-dossiercountry counsel+legal translatorteaching-scenario-not-precedent
Notice deadline candidate calculator/tools/notice-deadline-calculatortoolproduct+legalplanned
Records coverage health check/tools/records-health-checktoolproduct+technicalspec-ready
Legal and editorial change log/about/change-logchange-logresearch editorplanned

Release 3: 5 pages

Working titlePathTypeReview requiredStatus
Delay-method validation lab/methods/method-validation-labinteractivedelay+dataplanned
John E. Green v Turner Construction/case-studies/john-e-green-v-turnercase-studystate lawyer+quantumcitation-and-jurisdiction-gate
CPB Contractors v Transport for NSW/case-studies/cpb-v-transport-for-nswcase-studyNSW lawyer+expertscitation-and-scope-gate
Anonymised GCC arbitration evidence study/case-studies/gcc/anonymised-arbitration-evidenceanonymised-dossierarbitration counsel+confidentiality reviewpermission-required-not-precedent
Delay method selector/tools/method-selectortoolproduct+delayplanned

The tools are not built

The plan includes a contract issue-spotter, a notice deadline calculator, a records health check and a method selector. None of them is live. The issue-spotter in particular will not launch until it passes privacy, security, adversarial and false-assurance testing, because a tool that quietly misses a time bar is worse than no tool at all. Until then, the records health check exists as a checklist you can run yourself.

General explanation of how contract mechanisms, analysis methods and legal principles generally work. It is not legal or contractual advice, not an opinion on any project, and no standard-form contract wording is reproduced anywhere on this site. Standard forms are routinely amended, so every default described here, including every time period, can be different on your project. Your executed contract, as amended, and the governing law and forum always control. Deadlines may already be running: if an event has occurred, preserve your position and take qualified advice.