General Introduction:

Principles of Claims Preparation and Claim Management training is created for the construction industry which plays essential role in economic sector in any country. The weak management of construction process of projects leads to delay the progress, as a result it increases the project cost and time with bad effect in quality, increasing the risk factor, client disappointment and safety issues on the project and the contractor reputation as well. Thus, the completion of project on  expected  time  under  calculated  cost  without  the  claim  is  impossible.  Due  to  uncertainty  of construction  projects,  the  client  received  the  claims  to  compensate  the  contractor  to  complete  the project with  extra cost and time. It is the duty of client representatives, projects manager and other projects participants to be familiar with claim preparation, claim analysis and claim avoidance to avoid any unnecessary cost of the project.

Goals and objectives: 

 It commonly observed that significant causes of the claims are: design error, delay  of payments, site conditions,  variation orders, lack of communications,  inadequate  drawings and specifications, , weather  conditions, contractor  experiences,  and unforeseen.

To recognize  the  common  types  and  causes  of  the  claims  faced  by construction industry. It  has  been observed that claims aroused during  execution,  requested for extra amount and time that lead to the progress delay. The purpose of this research work will help to avoid or minimize the causes of claims in construction projects globally.

The objective of this training on Principles of Claims Preparation and Claim Management is to make the participants able to  recognize  the  common  types  and  causes  of  the  claims  faced  by construction industry where most of claims are a raised during  execution,  requested for extra amount and time that lead to the progress delay. The purpose of this training is also to make trainees to avoid or minimize the causes of claims in construction projects, and to reduce the impact of unexpected issues during construction.

Course content:

During the course period, the instructor will explain, discuss, and analyze in detail with participants the process of claim preparations, claim analysis, claim avoidance and causes of claims in construction projects through covering the followings subjects during training period:

1. Claim definition
2. Instruction (verbal, written)
3. Problem definition
4. Claims types
5. Claims and contract clauses
6. Claim Preparation and documentation
7. Claim avoidance
8. Claim settlement and disputes resolution
9. Constructive Changes by Employer
10. Delays
11. Disruption
12. Acceleration of work
13. Differing Site Conditions
14. Causes of claims
15. Suspension of work
16. Defective specifications
17. Indirect impact of delay
18. Irregular changes
19. Disruption of work
20. Acceleration of work
21. Entitlement to extension of time
22. Entitlement to additional payment
23. Additional payment due to legal entitlement
24. Entitlement to recovery of the cost
25. Problem definition
26. Disagreement
27. Dispute
28. Conflicts
29. Litigations
30. References and classification of COC
31. Audit design quality
32. Analysis of the risks
33. Procurement analysis
34. Review of tender documents
35. Construction methods during tendering
36. Negotiation and arbitration
37. Claim management

Who Should Attend:

This training on Principles of Claims Preparation and Claim Management is for Client representatives, project directors, project managers and their deputies, contracts managers, architects, quantity surveyors, value engineers, cost control engineers, project engineers, site manager, material engineers, site engineers, site inspectors, and other engineers of different disciplines in projects, engineers who works in private and government sector, the fresh graduate engineers. Engineers who work with developers, investors, project managers, consultants, contractors, bankers, lawyers, and accountants