Salient Features of

Disruption Claims

Auther- Santanu Debnath 1

Disruption means Loss of
productivity from the Base Disruption can be both on Critical
productivity reasonable to the and Non-critical path of the
activity or group of activities of project.
the project.

Poor planning, Poor costing, Event

Not all Disruptions are outside Contractor’s reasonable
compensable to Contractor. control etc. can be reason of
Disruption.

Compensation due to
Unforeseeable physical condition,
LD clause, Notification of claims
are few of the clauses of contract
which are of prime importance to
Disruption claims.
Notification of claims must be
used effectively as often impact of
the disruption event is not
experienced near to the event.

Auther- Santanu Debnath 2

During Honeymoon Notification of claims Several events may Disruption caused in Records must be kept
period, that is at the must be used impact the project at multiple Sub-critical of Contemporaneous
beginning of the effectively as often the same time, all or paths (at the same basis and not
project, the impact of the some of them may time or different Retrospective basis.
Contractor may not Disruption event is cause Disruption. time) needs to be
produce disruption not Experienced near analyzed.
claims as at this to the event.
phase of the project,
the Contractor may
be more interested in
creating a relation
with the Employer.

Auther- Santanu Debnath 3

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Global claims to be Two main methods of Measured mile method Productivity norms can be
avoided if possible. disruption analysis are (type of Productivity freezed during the
However, there are Cost based analysis and analysis) is found suitable contract signing and
instances where Global Productivity based in most of the cases. approval of baseline
claims have been realized. analysis. schedule phase. This will
Ultimately everything help both Employer and
depends on Contractor in future.
Substantiation.

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