BRC Academy / Contracts & Claims
Claims
Delay and disruption claims for owners and contractors: notice, entitlement, schedule analysis, quantum and settlement.
Beginner Sessions 1–8
- 1What a construction claim is, and why claims are won or lostWhat a claim is, the four elements every claim must prove, and why records and notice decide most outcomes.
- 2Notice clauses and deadlines that decide entitlementThe notice clocks in CCDC 2-2020, what a good notice says, and how a missed notice can sink a valid claim.
- 3Excusable, compensable and concurrent delayHow each kind of delay decides whether the contractor gets time, money, both or neither.
- 4The project record: what wins and loses a claimWhich records prove causation and quantum, and how to keep them so they hold up later.
- 5Float ownership and the baseline scheduleHow float absorbs delay, who gets to use it, and why the accepted baseline anchors every delay claim.
- 6Schedule analysis methods: a map for owners and contractorsThe main delay analysis methods, what data each needs, and how to choose one that will survive scrutiny.
- 7As-planned vs as-built analysisThe simplest delay analysis: compare plan and reality. Useful as a first look, weak as proof.
- 8Impacted as-planned, and why reviewers push backInsert the delays into the plan and see what moves. Simple, popular in claims, and easy to overstate.
Intermediate Sessions 9–16
- 9Time impact analysis step by stepThe standard method for a time extension request: insert the event into the update in force and measure the effect.
- 10Windows analysisSlice the project into periods, find the critical path delay in each, and assign it. The method that captures both sides' delays.
- 11Concurrent delay in Canadian lawWhen both sides delay the job at once: how Canadian courts approach it and how to settle it in the contract.
- 12Disruption and lost productivity: the measured mileDisruption costs money even when the end date holds. How the measured mile proves it, and how to test it.
- 13Acceleration, directed and constructiveWhen the owner orders or forces faster work: what the contractor must prove, and how owners avoid the trap.
- 14Quantum: extended site overheadThe biggest head in most delay claims: which site costs really run with time, and how to audit the daily rate.
- 15Head office overhead: Hudson, Emden and EichleayThe three formulas for head office overhead, what each assumes, and why the overhead percentage decides the answer.
- 16Owner counterclaims: liquidated damages and back-chargesThe owner's side of the ledger: when liquidated damages are enforceable, how back-charges work, and how to set them off.
Advanced Sessions 17–21
- 17Why global claims failThe claim that adds up the overrun and blames the owner: why it fails, and how to rebuild it into something payable.
- 18Reviewing a contractor's claim step by stepThe full review, in order: what to check, what to ask for, and how to write a response that moves toward settlement.
- 19Negotiation and settlementTurning analysis into an agreement: how to prepare, negotiate and write a settlement that actually closes the claim.
- 20Adjudication, arbitration and litigation in OntarioWhen talks fail: how adjudication, arbitration and court work in Ontario, how fast, how final, and which deadlines apply.
- 21Northgate capstone: assessing a 60-day delay claimThe whole course in one case: 60 days late, $1,140,000 claimed, 42 days and $265,000 agreed. How and why.
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