Types Of Project Delays Which Can Come Along Your Construction Pathway!

As construction is a precarious venture, delays are persistent and widespread all over the United Arab Emirates.  These construction delays lead to both time and cost-overrun in your project. And not only this, they can result in disputes, claims and total disruption of the project as a whole.

Therefore, these impediments can be considered as a leading factor in the slow growth in the construction sector.

Thus, to avoid and manage construction project delays, your business should seek the services of a qualified delay expert. They not only provide you guidance from the beginning till the end but also professionally analyze the impact of any potential delay on your project schedule and its timeline.

Here we have enlisted some of the potential delays that can come along your construction pathway:

Excusable Delays

As the name suggests, this type of suspension can result from an unforeseeable event that is beyond the contractor and subcontractor’s control. For instance, delays resulting from incidents such as fires, floods, errors or omissions in the contract or bad weather come under this heading.

These delays are further categorized into excusable with compensation and excusable without compensation delays:

Excusable With Compensation

These delays occur as a result of the business owner or his agents. One such example is the late provisions of drawings from the owner’s architect. Such delays usually lead to project schedule extension and bring financial liabilities to the owner as a result of claims by the contractor.

Excusable Delays Without Compensation

Such non-compensable construction delays are caused as a result of incidents controlled by third parties and are above the control of both the contractor and the owner.

Such instances include natural incidents such as unusually severe weather, fires, government acts or policies etc. Here, professional delay expert can help you manage the delay and the claims associated with that postponement. 

In this scenario, although the contractor is generally entitled to claim extension in this case, he would not be getting any compensation for delay damages.

Non-Excusable Delays

These delays occur as a result of poor performance of the contractor on the construction site. It can result from wrong estimates of productivity, poor project planning and schedule making, employing wrong construction techniques or due to unreliable suppliers or subcontractors.

Concurrent Delays

This is the problem that most of the construction industry projects suffer from. It arises when two or more than two delaying events happen concurrently, and the project cannot complete at the estimated site.

When excusable with compensation and without compensation delays occur concurrently, the owner can claim for the time extension, and the suspension will be the distribution between the owner and his contractor.

TAKE HOME MESSAGE!

Simply put, construction delays are very pervasive in the United Arab Emirates. And generally speaking construction delay related claims are the most commonly occurring types of disputes in the construction industry.

Claims regarding schedule delays necessitate the importance of specialized delay expert for your construction project. As schedule overrun can be disastrous for your project in particular and your business in general, seeking help from experts can save your business in the longer run.