Our Experience
Contractor-side onlyDeep Contractor-Side Experience Across Sectors
We bring extensive contractor-side experience across civil engineering, infrastructure, and building projects, acting for both main contractors and specialist subcontractors. Our advice is informed by real project delivery, not theoretical interpretation.
We understand how commercial and contractual issues arise on live projects — under programme pressure, incomplete information, and evolving scope — and we tailor our support accordingly. Our role is to help contractors protect entitlement while maintaining a practical and credible position.
NEC Contracts (NEC3 & NEC4)
Extensive experience operating under NEC3 and NEC4 forms, including ECC, ECS, and PSC. We regularly advise on early warnings, compensation events, programme submissions, assessments, and challenges to Project Manager determinations.
JCT Forms of Contract
Support under JCT contracts, including variations, loss and expense, extensions of time, payment mechanisms, and final account negotiation, acting firmly from the contractor’s commercial perspective.
Infrastructure & Civil Engineering
Experience across infrastructure, utilities, highways, rail interfaces, and enabling works, including complex scope change, third-party constraints, and interface risk.
Project Scale & Complexity
Projects ranging from six-figure values through to multi-million-pound contracts, with advice scaled proportionately to the value, risk profile, and commercial objectives of each project.
Our advice is practical, proportionate, and grounded in how projects are actually delivered. We focus on what can realistically be substantiated, defended, and recovered — not abstract arguments that fail under scrutiny.
Representative Commercial Support
Typical contractor support we provide
The examples below are intended to illustrate the type of contractor-side commercial and contractual support we typically provide. They are not presented as historic commissions, but as representative examples of the situations in which contractors and subcontractors commonly seek support.
NEC Compensation Event Support – Infrastructure Project
Commercial support to a subcontractor in preparing and substantiating compensation events relating to late information and access constraints. This would typically involve reviewing contractual entitlement, preparing event notices and quotations, assessing programme impacts, and supporting negotiations with the main contractor.
Final Account Dispute – Civil Engineering Subcontract
Support to a subcontractor in resolving final account disputes where variations or compensation events have been rejected or under-assessed. This would usually include reviewing historic instructions and correspondence, preparing final account schedules, and assisting with settlement discussions.
Delay and Prolongation Claim – Utilities Framework
Preparation of delay and prolongation claims arising from late access, late information, or other client-related issues. This would involve reviewing programme requirements, identifying critical path impacts, and preparing the commercial claim narrative and supporting cost assessment.
Variation and Commercial Recovery – Specialist Subcontractor
Commercial support to subcontractors seeking recovery of unpaid variations or instructed works. This would typically involve preparing variation schedules, reviewing contractual entitlement, and assisting with negotiations with the main contractor.
Adjudication Preparation Support
Commercial and contractual support to contractors preparing for potential adjudication relating to disputed compensation events or final account positions, including evidence reviews and preparation of supporting documentation.
If you are dealing with a similar issue under NEC or JCT, early contractor-side support can strengthen entitlement, improve presentation, and reduce unnecessary escalation.
Discuss your positionContractor-side only. Remote UK-wide. NEC & JCT. Live project support, compensation events, final account disputes, delay and prolongation claims, variation recovery, and adjudication support.