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
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 title | Path | Type | Review required | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to read a construction programme | /start-here/read-a-construction-programme | guide | delay | brief-ready |
| Construction notices for beginners | /guides/beginner/notices | guide | legal | brief-ready |
| Causation: from event to time and cost | /guides/beginner/causation | guide | legal+technical | sample-ready |
| Contemporaneous records: the beginner's guide | /guides/beginner/contemporaneous-records | guide | delay+quantum | sample-ready |
| Federal construction delay claims | /jurisdictions/united-states/federal-contracts | jurisdiction-guide | US federal lawyer | brief-ready |
| UAE delay and quantum after the 2025 Civil Transactions Law | /jurisdictions/gcc/uae | jurisdiction-guide | UAE counsel+Arabic reviewer | brief-ready |
| Saudi construction delay and the Civil Transactions Law | /jurisdictions/gcc/saudi-arabia | jurisdiction-guide | Saudi counsel+Arabic reviewer | brief-ready |
| Independence and the expert's duty | /expert-evidence/independence-and-duty | guide | lawyers | brief-ready |
| Walter Lilly v Mackay | /case-studies/walter-lilly-v-mackay | case-study | UK lawyer+experts | source-verified |
| White Constructions v PBS Holdings | /case-studies/white-constructions-v-pbs | case-study | NSW lawyer+delay | source-verified |
| Santos v Fluor: delay, disruption and quantum | /case-studies/santos-v-fluor | case-series | QLD lawyer+experts | primary-review-required |
| Van Oord v Allseas | /case-studies/van-oord-v-allseas | case-study | UK lawyer+experts | source-verified |
| Obrascon v Gibraltar | /case-studies/obrascon-v-gibraltar | case-study | UK lawyer+delay | source-verified |
| North Midland v Cyden Homes | /case-studies/north-midland-v-cyden | case-study | UK lawyer | source-verified |
| Sauer v Danzig | /case-studies/sauer-v-danzig | case-study | US federal lawyer+delay | source-verified |
| P.J. Dick v Principi | /case-studies/pj-dick-v-principi | case-study | US federal lawyer+quantum | source-verified |
| Howard Contracting v G.A. MacDonald | /case-studies/howard-contracting | case-study | California lawyer+delay | source-verified |
| CMA Assets v John Holland | /case-studies/cma-assets-v-john-holland | case-study | WA lawyer+experts | primary-review-required |
| V601 Developments v Probuild | /case-studies/v601-v-probuild | case-study | Victoria lawyer+delay | primary-review-required |
| Triple Point v PTT | /case-studies/triple-point-v-ptt | case-study | UK lawyer | source-verified |
| Thomas Barnes v Blackburn | /case-studies/thomas-barnes-v-blackburn | case-study | UK lawyer+delay | primary-review-required |
| Multiplex v Honeywell (No 2) | /case-studies/multiplex-v-honeywell | case-study | UK lawyer+delay | source-verified |
| Blinderman Construction v United States | /case-studies/blinderman-v-united-states | case-study | US federal lawyer+delay | source-verified |
| Lucas Earthmovers v AngloGold Ashanti | /case-studies/lucas-earthmovers-v-anglogold | case-study | Australian lawyer+quantum | source-verified |
| Probuild v DDI Group | /case-studies/probuild-v-ddi | case-study | NSW lawyer+delay | source-verified |
| Free construction contract issue-spotter | /tools/contract-reviewer | tool | product+legal+security | spec-ready |
| Reviewers, credentials and conflicts | /about/reviewers-and-conflicts | policy | governance | brief-ready |
Release 2: 93 pages
| Working title | Path | Type | Review required | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The ten-day delay and quantum course | /start-here/ten-day-learning-path | course | editorial+technical | planned |
| Liquidated damages explained | /guides/beginner/liquidated-damages | guide | legal | brief-ready |
| When and how to appoint a delay or quantum expert | /guides/beginner/appointing-an-expert | guide | legal+technical | brief-ready |
| Advanced delay and quantum research | /guides/advanced | hub | technical+legal | brief-ready |
| Designing defensible windows | /guides/advanced/windows-and-time-slices | guide | delay | brief-ready |
| Forensic schedule data validation | /guides/advanced/schedule-data-validation | guide | delay+data | brief-ready |
| Competing models of concurrent delay | /guides/advanced/concurrency-models | guide | legal+delay | brief-ready |
| Apportionment by jurisdiction | /guides/advanced/apportionment | guide | legal | planned |
| Global and total-cost claims | /guides/advanced/global-and-total-cost-claims | guide | legal+quantum | brief-ready |
| Home-office overhead methods and law | /guides/advanced/home-office-overhead | guide | legal+quantum | brief-ready |
| Reproducible delay and quantum models | /guides/advanced/expert-model-reproducibility | guide | technical+legal | brief-ready |
| Mitigation of construction delay | /delay/mitigation | guide | legal+delay | brief-ready |
| Directed, agreed and constructive acceleration | /delay/acceleration | guide | legal+delay+quantum | brief-ready |
| Suspension and compensable delay | /delay/suspension | guide | legal | planned |
| Early-completion schedules and claims | /delay/early-completion | guide | legal+delay | planned |
| Earned value and work sampling | /quantum/earned-value-and-work-sampling | method | quantum | planned |
| Total-cost and modified total-cost claims | /quantum/total-cost-and-modified-total-cost | method | legal+quantum | brief-ready |
| Site overhead and preliminaries | /quantum/site-overheads | guide | quantum | brief-ready |
| Head-office overhead by jurisdiction | /quantum/head-office-overheads | guide | legal+quantum | brief-ready |
| Financing cost and interest | /quantum/financing-and-interest | guide | legal+quantum | planned |
| Cost escalation and delay | /quantum/escalation | guide | legal+quantum | brief-ready |
| Resource, quantity and cost records | /records/resource-and-cost-records | guide-template | quantum | brief-ready |
| Correspondence, notices and minutes | /records/correspondence-notices-minutes | guide-template | legal | brief-ready |
| Photographs, BIM and metadata as evidence | /records/photographs-bim-and-metadata | guide | evidence+data | brief-ready |
| The event-to-cost evidence graph | /records/evidence-graph | tool-guide | technical+legal | sample-ready |
| Concurrency and float drafting | /contracts/concurrency-and-float-clauses | guide | legal+delay | brief-ready |
| Variation and change mechanisms | /contracts/variation-and-change | guide | legal+quantum | brief-ready |
| Where delay-cost entitlement lives | /contracts/delay-cost-entitlement | guide | legal+quantum | brief-ready |
| No-damages-for-delay clauses | /contracts/no-damages-for-delay | guide | legal | brief-ready |
| Waiver, release and final payment | /contracts/waiver-release-and-final-payment | guide | legal | planned |
| AIA delay and claims mechanisms | /contracts/forms/aia | contract-hub | legal | brief-ready |
| ConsensusDocs notices and delay | /contracts/forms/consensusdocs | contract-hub | legal | planned |
| AS 4000:2025 and legacy editions | /contracts/forms/as-4000 | contract-hub | legal+delay | brief-ready |
| Concurrent delay in England and Wales | /jurisdictions/united-kingdom/concurrent-delay | jurisdiction-guide | UK lawyer+delay | brief-ready |
| Notices and time bars in England and Wales | /jurisdictions/united-kingdom/notices | jurisdiction-guide | UK lawyer | brief-ready |
| CPR 35 for delay and quantum experts | /jurisdictions/united-kingdom/expert-evidence | jurisdiction-guide | UK lawyer | brief-ready |
| State-by-state delay-law map | /jurisdictions/united-states/state-law-map | interactive-guide | state lawyers | planned |
| No-damages-for-delay by state | /jurisdictions/united-states/no-damages-for-delay | jurisdiction-guide | state lawyers | brief-ready |
| Eichleay and unabsorbed overhead | /jurisdictions/united-states/eichleay-overheads | jurisdiction-guide | US federal lawyer+quantum | brief-ready |
| Federal Rule 702 for delay and quantum experts | /jurisdictions/united-states/expert-evidence-rule-702 | jurisdiction-guide | US litigator | brief-ready |
| Australian state and territory map | /jurisdictions/australia/state-territory-map | interactive-guide | state lawyers | planned |
| Prevention and time bars in Australia | /jurisdictions/australia/prevention-and-time-bars | jurisdiction-guide | state lawyers | brief-ready |
| Delay methods and factual causation in Australia | /jurisdictions/australia/methods-and-causation | jurisdiction-guide | Australian lawyer+delay | brief-ready |
| Delay claims and security of payment | /jurisdictions/australia/security-of-payment-interface | jurisdiction-guide | state lawyers | brief-ready |
| Qatar construction delay and quantum | /jurisdictions/gcc/qatar | jurisdiction-guide | Qatar counsel+Arabic reviewer | brief-ready |
| Bahrain construction delay and quantum | /jurisdictions/gcc/bahrain | jurisdiction-guide | Bahrain counsel+Arabic reviewer | planned |
| Oman construction delay and quantum | /jurisdictions/gcc/oman | jurisdiction-guide | Oman counsel+Arabic reviewer | planned |
| Kuwait construction delay and quantum | /jurisdictions/gcc/kuwait | jurisdiction-guide | Kuwait counsel+Arabic reviewer | planned |
| FIDIC-derived contracts across the GCC | /jurisdictions/gcc/fidic-in-the-gcc | comparative-guide | GCC counsel+FIDIC expert | brief-ready |
| GCC arbitration, evidence and confidential awards | /jurisdictions/gcc/arbitration-and-evidence | guide | arbitration counsel | brief-ready |
| Instructions, assumptions and data | /expert-evidence/instructions-assumptions-and-data | guide | lawyers+experts | brief-ready |
| A reproducible expert report | /expert-evidence/report-architecture | guide-template | lawyers+experts | brief-ready |
| Joint statements and narrowing issues | /expert-evidence/joint-statements | guide | lawyers | planned |
| How delay and quantum opinions fail under cross-examination | /expert-evidence/cross-examination | guide | lawyers+experts | brief-ready |
| Corinno Civetta v City of New York | /case-studies/corinno-civetta | case-study | New York lawyer | primary-review-required |
| Dasreef v Hawchar | /case-studies/dasreef-v-hawchar | case-study | Australian evidence lawyer | source-verified |
| Amey LG v Cumbria County Council | /case-studies/amey-v-cumbria | case-study | UK lawyer+quantum | primary-review-required |
| Great Eastern Hotel v John Laing | /case-studies/great-eastern-hotel-v-john-laing | case-study | UK lawyer+experts | primary-review-required |
| Adyard Abu Dhabi v SD Marine Services | /case-studies/adyard-abu-dhabi-v-sd-marine | case-study | UK lawyer+delay | primary-review-required |
| Motherwell Bridge v Micafil | /case-studies/motherwell-bridge-v-micafil | case-study | UK lawyer+experts | primary-review-required |
| Henry Boot v Malmaison Hotel | /case-studies/henry-boot-v-malmaison | case-study | UK lawyer+delay | primary-review-required |
| City Inn v Shepherd Construction | /case-studies/city-inn-v-shepherd | case-study | Scottish lawyer+delay | primary-review-required |
| Energy Works (Hull) v MW High Tech Projects | /case-studies/energy-works-hull-v-mw-high-tech | case-study | UK lawyer+quantum | citation-and-scope-gate |
| Essex Electro Engineers v Danzig | /case-studies/essex-electro-v-danzig | case-study | US federal lawyer+delay | primary-review-required |
| Kinetic Builder's v Peters | /case-studies/kinetic-builders-v-peters | case-study | US federal lawyer+delay | primary-review-required |
| Commerce International v United States | /case-studies/commerce-international-v-united-states | case-study | US federal lawyer+quantum | primary-review-required |
| Coath & Goss v United States | /case-studies/coath-and-goss-v-united-states | case-study | US federal lawyer | primary-review-required |
| William F. Klingensmith v United States | /case-studies/klingensmith-v-united-states | case-study | US federal lawyer+quantum | primary-review-required |
| Greg Opinski Construction v City of Oakdale | /case-studies/greg-opinski-v-oakdale | case-study | California lawyer | primary-review-required |
| Bovis Lend Lease v Lower Manhattan Development Corp | /case-studies/bovis-v-lower-manhattan | case-study | New York lawyer | primary-review-required |
| Triple R Paving v Broward County | /case-studies/triple-r-paving-v-broward | case-study | Florida lawyer | primary-review-required |
| Spiers Earthworks v Landtec Projects (No 2) | /case-studies/spiers-earthworks-v-landtec | case-study | WA lawyer+delay | primary-review-required |
| Kane Constructions v Sopov | /case-studies/kane-constructions-v-sopov | case-study | Victoria lawyer+delay | primary-review-required |
| John Holland Construction v Kvaerner RJ Brown | /case-studies/john-holland-v-kvaerner | case-study | QLD lawyer+experts | primary-review-required |
| Walton Construction v Illawarra Hotel Company | /case-studies/walton-v-illawarra-hotel | case-study | NSW lawyer+quantum | primary-review-required |
| Abigroup Contractors v Sydney Catchment Authority | /case-studies/abigroup-v-sydney-catchment | case-study | NSW lawyer+quantum | primary-review-required |
| Mainteck Services v Stein Heurtey | /case-studies/mainteck-v-stein-heurtey | case-study | NSW lawyer+quantum | primary-review-required |
| DM Drainage v Karara Mining | /case-studies/dm-drainage-v-karara-mining | case-study | WA lawyer+quantum | primary-review-required |
| Built Environs WA v Perth Airport | /case-studies/built-environs-v-perth-airport | case-study | WA lawyer+quantum | citation-and-scope-gate |
| Dura Constructions v Hue Boutique Living | /case-studies/dura-v-hue-boutique-living | case-study | Victoria evidence lawyer | citation-and-scope-gate |
| Alexanderson Earthmover v Civil Mining & Construction | /case-studies/alexanderson-v-civil-mining | case-study | QLD lawyer+quantum | citation-and-scope-gate |
| Rimfire Energy v BSF | /case-studies/rimfire-energy-v-bsf | case-study | state lawyer+experts | citation-and-jurisdiction-gate |
| Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal v Monadelphous Engineering | /case-studies/wiggins-island-v-monadelphous | case-study | QLD lawyer+quantum | citation-and-scope-gate |
| UAE 2025 Civil Transactions Law transition scenario | /case-studies/gcc/uae-2025-law-transition | teaching-dossier | UAE counsel+Arabic reviewer | code-analysis-not-precedent |
| UAE exceptional-circumstances issue map | /case-studies/gcc/uae-exceptional-circumstances | teaching-dossier | UAE counsel+Arabic reviewer | code-analysis-not-precedent |
| Saudi Civil Transactions Law and FIDIC notice | /case-studies/gcc/saudi-fidic-notice | teaching-dossier | Saudi counsel+Arabic reviewer | code-analysis-not-precedent |
| Qatar hardship and materials escalation | /case-studies/gcc/qatar-hardship-escalation | teaching-dossier | Qatar counsel+Arabic reviewer | code-analysis-not-precedent |
| Engineer determination, good faith and time bar | /case-studies/gcc/engineer-determination-time-bar | teaching-dossier | country counsel+FIDIC expert | contract-code-analysis-not-precedent |
| Mainland UAE, DIFC and ADGM forum decision tree | /case-studies/gcc/mainland-free-zone-forum | teaching-dossier | UAE/DIFC/ADGM counsel | system-comparison-not-precedent |
| Arabic-English contract conflict and translation evidence | /case-studies/gcc/bilingual-contract-evidence | teaching-dossier | country counsel+legal translator | teaching-scenario-not-precedent |
| Notice deadline candidate calculator | /tools/notice-deadline-calculator | tool | product+legal | planned |
| Records coverage health check | /tools/records-health-check | tool | product+technical | spec-ready |
| Legal and editorial change log | /about/change-log | change-log | research editor | planned |
Release 3: 5 pages
| Working title | Path | Type | Review required | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delay-method validation lab | /methods/method-validation-lab | interactive | delay+data | planned |
| John E. Green v Turner Construction | /case-studies/john-e-green-v-turner | case-study | state lawyer+quantum | citation-and-jurisdiction-gate |
| CPB Contractors v Transport for NSW | /case-studies/cpb-v-transport-for-nsw | case-study | NSW lawyer+experts | citation-and-scope-gate |
| Anonymised GCC arbitration evidence study | /case-studies/gcc/anonymised-arbitration-evidence | anonymised-dossier | arbitration counsel+confidentiality review | permission-required-not-precedent |
| Delay method selector | /tools/method-selector | tool | product+delay | planned |
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.
