Claims & Dispute Resolution

Most disputes on construction projects are really disagreements about facts that were never properly recorded at the time: what was instructed, when it was instructed, and what effect it had on cost and programme. A claim's strength comes almost entirely from the quality of the evidence behind it, not the strength of the argument alone.

We prepare claims for time and cost, from extension of time and loss and expense to variations in dispute, built on a clear evidential trail linking cause, effect and entitlement under the applicable contract clauses. Where a claim is being received rather than made, we assess it with the same rigour, testing entitlement before a position is agreed.

This is an area where QCons brings more than general Quantity Surveying knowledge: our Director holds an LLM in Law & Arbitration and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb), and that background in construction law informs how every claim we prepare is structured and evidenced.