Delay & Claims
Forensic schedule analysis, extension-of-time and claims work, and independent expert testimony, each built from the contemporaneous project record and named methods.
When the finish moves, the record answers.
A late finish turns a scheduling question into a financial one. Liquidated damages, prolongation costs, retentions, bonds and board confidence all wait on a single answer: what actually drove completion, and whose risk was it? Counsel needs that answer to be provable. Executives need it to be fast and right.
Schedola reconstructs the timeline period by period, from the schedules and records the project already produced. We select a method the facts can support, name it in the terms of AACE International Recommended Practice 29R-03 and the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol, and show every step so the other side can test it. For contractors we establish entitlement to time and money. For owners and lenders we test what has been claimed and separate the substantiated from the asserted. When matters reach a tribunal, our experts give independent opinions. And where we arrive early enough, we help the project keep the records that make a dispute unnecessary.
The side with the clearest account usually prevails
Tribunals, mediators and boards decide on what can be traced and tested. We build analysis that stands on documents, follows a recognised method and reads plainly to a non-specialist.
Named methods
Every analysis identified by its AACE 29R-03 method implementation protocol and its SCL Protocol equivalent, with the reasons for choosing it.
Source-traced
Each date, duration and finding linked to a document in the project record.
Testable
Native files, assumptions and calculations disclosed so the work can be replicated, not just read.
Independent
Opinions that stay the same whoever instructs us, because that is what makes them worth relying on.
7 ways we prove what happened
Engage one service, or the whole practice as an integrated team. Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner, start to finish.
Forensic analysis
3 servicesRetrospective and contemporaneous delay analysis that identifies the critical delays, measures them and allocates responsibility, using a method chosen to fit the records and the contract.
04.02Time Impact Analysis (TIA)Prospective and contemporaneous time impact analyses that model a specific event in the current schedule and show its effect on completion and key milestones.
04.04Forensic SchedulingForensic reconstruction of as-planned and as-built schedules from the project record, analysed with methods recognised by AACE International and the SCL Protocol.
Entitlement & claims
2 servicesExtension-of-time preparation, assessment and negotiation support under AIA, ConsensusDocs, FIDIC, NEC and bespoke contracts.
04.05Claims SupportPreparation, review and defence of construction claims for delay, disruption, acceleration and change, in close partnership with counsel.
Resolution
2 servicesIndependent expert evidence on planning, scheduling, delay, disruption and project controls in arbitration, litigation and adjudication.
04.07Dispute ResolutionAnalytical support through negotiation, mediation, dispute boards, arbitration and litigation, focused on the fairest outcome at the lowest total cost.
Somewhere in the daily reports, the updates and the correspondence, the answer is already written down. We find it, test it and set it out so plainly that the argument gets shorter.The Schedola standard
Markets this practice serves
3.11Transportation
Highways, bridges, transit and rail programs delivered in full public view, with commuters, councils and taxpayers watching.
3.13Water & Wastewater
Treatment plants, conveyance and resilience programs that must meet regulatory dates while the plant keeps treating.
3.03Commercial
Office towers, mixed-use, hospitality and retail, where the completion date is already written into leases, loans and launch plans.
3.15Oil & Gas
Upstream, midstream and downstream capital projects, plant outages and brownfield work in demanding, hazardous environments.
3.12Aviation
Terminals, airside works, hangars and airport modernisation delivered while flights, passengers and security keep moving.
3.07Healthcare
Hospitals, medical centres and research facilities built and renovated while care continues next door.
3.14Power
Generation, transmission, renewables and storage — the infrastructure that the grid, and every new data center, is waiting on.
3.16Government
Federal, state and municipal capital programs held to strict standards of compliance, transparency and stewardship.
Digital Delivery
BIM, 4D and 5D, reality capture and digital twins, wired into the schedule and the budget.
Planning & Scheduling
CPM schedules that show the finish clearly, from the first baseline to the last integrated systems test.
Project Controls
One connected view of cost, time, change and progress, for a single project or a full capital plan.
See your finish from here.
Tell us where your project stands today. In one conversation with a senior practitioner you will know where it is really heading, what is driving it, and what it will take to land it.
- Senior practitioner on the first call
- Confidential by default
- A straight answer, not a sales pitch
