Quantity Surveying

Despite all the best efforts of the Project team potential disputes can, and do, arise. Our experience of dispute resolution combined with commercial astuteness and awareness enables us to advise on the best ways of avoiding them. Early, proactive, intervention can prevent time consuming and expensive disputes. As soon as early warning signals, or official notifications, have been received we can:

• Provide initial advice on strengths /weaknesses of any case, together with a clear and concise list of proposals for going forward.
• Provide advice on ensuring the correct contract procedures are followed.
• Set up effective management and monitoring structures regarding lines of communications and correspondence
• Provide the client with effective, impartial advise
• Ensure accurate contemporaneous records are kept, historic documentation is easily accessible, and project documentation is up to date. Records, records, records..
• Help parties engage and facilitate negotiations to ensure that business relationships are not damaged and to help settle disputes quickly before they escalate

In the event that a disagreement crystalises into a dispute, Walker Consultants can advise on the best/most practical approach of either establishing entitlement and/or demonstrating/or rebutting the following heads of claim/loss & expense:

• Extension of Time/Prolongation/Liquidated and Ascertained Damages
• Disruption/Disturbance of the regular progress of the works
• Acceleration
• Variations
• Finance charges
• Interest
• Increased costs
• Overheads recovery
• Loss of profit
• Lost opportunity
• Reasonable cost of completion following determination
• Cost of remedial works following defective works/professional negligence