Contractor guides to the contract issues that decide your margin
Each guide brings together CALIM's practitioner insights on one topic - so you can go from question to a defensible position in one place.
Delay, EOT and Prolongation Claims
Prove EOT entitlement, recover prolongation cost and handle concurrent delay, and see why a missed 28 day notice sinks a valid claim on procedure.
14 articlesVariations and Change Management
Notify, value and recover every instructed change: Clause 13 procedure, new rates versus contract rates, omissions, and LSTK variation traps.
7 articlesConstruction Payment and Cash Flow
Fix short interim certificates, release retention, test pay-when-paid clauses, and use the FIDIC Clause 16 ladder when a payer stops paying.
4 articlesSubcontract Risk and Drafting
The clauses that cost SME subcontractors money: pay-when-paid, uncapped liability, wide set-off, back-to-back flow-down, and a pre-signature checklist.
5 articlesContract Termination
Cause versus convenience, the Clause 15 and 16 notice steps, what you recover, and why terminating early turns into a repudiation you pay for.
4 articlesFIDIC and NEC Contract Forms
FIDIC 1999 versus 2017, NEC3 versus NEC4, NEC versus FIDIC: how compensation events, notice timescales and pricing models move risk to you.
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