RESOURCES/POST-AWARD Making an Insurance Claim on a Civil Job: Notice, Evidence and What It Costs at Renewal A bucket catches something that was not on the plan, and within an hour a street is closed and someone else’s property is wet. What you do in the next two days decides whether the policy pays. Making … Read more
RESOURCES/POST-AWARD From Preferred Tenderer to Site Start: Contract Award, Conditions Precedent and Mobilisation The library covers how to win the tender and how to run the claims once you are on site. Between those two sits a four-to-eight week stage almost nobody plans for — post-tender negotiation, the award letter that may or may not … Read more
RESOURCES/POST-AWARD Dispute Resolution After Adjudication: What Comes Next Adjudication is fast, cheap and interim — it decides who holds the money while the argument continues, not who was right. What happens when a determination does not settle the matter, how the contract’s own dispute ladder works, what expert determination and arbitration actually cost, and why … Read more
RESOURCES/POST-AWARD Contract Administration for Civil SMEs: Notices, Records and the Paper Trail Claims Run On Every claim a civil contractor makes is decided by records created weeks or months earlier, usually by someone who had no idea they were creating evidence. This is the system underneath variations, extensions of time, latent conditions and final claims … Read more
RESOURCES/POST-AWARD Practical Completion, Defects Liability and the Final Claim The last five per cent of a civil job is where the most margin quietly disappears — practical completion certified late, a punch list used to hold the certificate hostage, a defects period that restarts without anyone noticing, a final claim lodged after the door has … Read more
RESOURCES/POST-AWARD Latent Conditions: Notification, Entitlement and How to Price Site Risk Rock where the borehole said clay. A service that is not on any drawing. Fill nobody disclosed. Latent conditions are the most civil-specific claim there is, and the entitlement turns on a question decided long before you hit anything: what should a competent contractor … Read more
RESOURCES/POST-AWARD Extension of Time and Delay Cost Claims: A Civil Contractor’s Guide An approved extension of time protects you from liquidated damages. It does not pay for the extra eleven weeks of site establishment, supervision and standing plant — that is a second claim, on a different test, and most civil SMEs never make it. … Read more
RESOURCES/POST-AWARD Variations in Civil Construction Contracts: Notice, Valuation and Getting Paid Most variation money is lost before anyone argues about the rate. It is lost in the fortnight between the instruction and the paperwork, when the work is already built and the only record of why is a conversation on site. What a variation legally … Read more
RESOURCES/POST-AWARD Security of Payment in Australia: The Civil Contractor’s Guide to Getting Paid Payment claims, payment schedules, adjudication, retention and trust accounts — how the rules work in every state and territory in 2026, and how a civil SME uses them without burning the client relationship. In this guide Winning is half the job How … Read more