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Insights on Construction Disputes, Delay and Quantum
Practical commentary from practising construction expert witnesses on arbitration and offshore-court disputes across the UAE and GCC.
- DIAC
- arbitrateAD
- SCCA
- QICCA
- BCDR
- DIFC Courts
- ADGM Courts
- QICDRC
- BICC
Pillar guides
All guidesPillar guide · 20 parts
Guide to Construction Expert Evidence
A twenty-part series on how evidence is taken, tested and presented in construction arbitration seated in the UAE and wider GCC, with particular attention to DIAC proceedings and the DIFC Courts.
Pillar guide · 20 parts
Practice Excellence in Engineering & Construction Expert Witness
A twenty-part series on what practice excellence looks like for construction and engineering expert witnesses in the GCC — duty, instructions, conflicts, evidence gathering, report writing and giving evidence across DIAC, arbitrateAD and the DIFC Courts.
Pillar guide · 10 parts
Client Guide to Expert Witness Services
A ten-part plain-English guide for clients navigating a dispute before the DIFC Courts or in DIAC arbitration — what an expert witness is, what duties they owe, how to instruct them, and what to expect at each stage.
Delay and Disruption Costs, Loss and Expense: A 10-Part Guide
A 10-part practitioner guide to quantifying delay and disruption costs, loss and expense in construction and engineering disputes across the UAE and GCC.
Explore the Delay & Disruption Quantum GuideDelay and Disruption
Entitlement Before Quantum: The Basis of Recovery for Delay Costs
Loss and expense, contractual rates or damages? How the basis of entitlement determines how delay costs are valued — and why it must be settled first.
Delay and Disruption
Mapping the Heads of Claim: A Taxonomy of Delay and Disruption Loss
From preliminaries to lost production: a structured taxonomy of the heads of claim that arise from delay and disruption, and how to scope them early.
Delay and Disruption
Labour Costs Under Delay: Extended Duration, Overtime and Non-Productive Time
How delay changes what a workforce costs — extended periods, overtime, pay increases, non-productive labour and remobilisation — and how to evidence it.
Delay and Disruption
Time-Related Preliminaries: Proving the Actual Cost of Prolongation
Site staff, accommodation, plant and facilities: how to identify, separate and prove the actual cost of time-related preliminaries in a delay claim.
Delay and Disruption
When the Contract Sets the Price: Valuing Delay on a Basis Other Than Cost
Agreed delay rates, bill rates and reasonable rates: when contract mechanisms, not ledgers, determine the value of delay — and the drafting traps to avoid.
Delay and Disruption
Which Period? Assessing Prolongation Costs When the Effect Was Felt
Should delay costs be priced at the time of the delay or at the end of the project? Why the period of assessment can swing a prolongation claim dramatically.
Delay and Disruption
Beyond the Site: Head Office Overheads, Profit, Finance and Lost Production
Head office overheads, loss of profit, escalation, financing charges and delayed production revenue: the heads of delay loss that sit beyond site-level cost.
Delay and Disruption
Concurrency, Global Claims and the Causal Link
How concurrent delay affects the recovery of delay costs, why global claims usually fail, and how to build the cause-and-effect link tribunals require.
Delay and Disruption
Proven, Estimated or Speculative: The Expert's Evidential Discipline
Can delay and disruption loss be valued without records? Why the distinction between proven, estimated and speculative loss often matters more than the number.
Cost and Time
The Cost of Arbitration in the Middle East: A Practitioner's Guide to DIAC Fees and Costs
How DIAC arbitration costs are built up under the 2022 DIAC Arbitration Rules and the 2025 Table of Fees and Costs, including registration fees, tribunal fees, legal and expert costs, the advance on costs and how tribunals allocate them.
Cost and Time
DIAC 2024 Annual Report: Construction Disputes Still Dominate Dubai Arbitration
DIAC registered 295 cases in 2024, with construction and real estate accounting for 58% of the caseload. What the figures mean for parties appointing construction expert witnesses.
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