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Global Claim versus time-slice one?

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Mon, 2005-05-16 02:29
Jihad Daniel
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Gentlemen,

When and in which circumstances, it is beneficial for Contractor to use cost/global claim for delay and disruption in respect of construction work instead of a detailed time-slice claim?

Regards,
J. Daniel
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Mon, 2005-05-23 09:04
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Andrew Flowerdew
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Everyone seems in agreement, generally any claim needs to be substantiated in terms of cause and effect to the highest degree that the available information will allow.

Global claims are not acceptable if it is possible to break down the claim into smaller parts.
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Tue, 2005-05-17 03:19
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Shahzad Munawar
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I totally agree with Uri that Global claims may not taken into account with respect to its proven substantiation.

Such claims may be accounted for when the Employer wants to settle the claims globally to cover both sides defaults amicably i.e Contractor and Employer.
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Tue, 2005-05-17 01:27
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Uri Shachar
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Daniel,

The only situation in which it would be better for the Contractor to make a ’Global’ delay claim is when he can not properly substantiate a more accurate analysis. Remember: time slices is only one technique, there are other techniques that might be more suitable, depending on the merits of each case).

Disruption claims (as opposed to delay claims) may sometimes be based on ’Gloabl’ analysis if no better alternative can be found.

Generally speaking, Gloabal claims are very difficult to prove, as establishing ’Cause and Effect’ which is important in delay analysis claims is problematic.

Try to avoid ’Global’ claims.
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