Quantum Meruit Project Management Ltd

Entitlement to Time-related Costs when an EoT is not granted
Determining Entitlement to an extension, and being bound to grant an extension, are separate matters. A Variation with critical path delay effects can be valued inclusive of Time-related Cost, irrespective and independent of the granting or awarding of an extension of time.
https://www.nzbe.co.nz/post/entitlement-to-time-related-costs-when-an-eot-is-not-granted

Advance Notice (Early Warning) Default by the Principal. The prevention principle prevents a party, in the absence of clear terms to the contrary, from taking advantage of its own wrong. Does anyone believe a Contractor would fail to submit a fully compliant Notice of Extension of Time, for a ‘Material’ Delay Cost matter, if they received a Direction labelled a Variation with Time implications, from the Principal?
https://www.nzbe.co.nz/post/advance-notice-early-warning-default-by-the-principal

Advance Notice (Early Warning) Default by the Principal Since 2013, NZS3910 has made 5.21 Advance Notice or 6.10 Early Warning, popular for judging whether a ‘material’ Variation or Extension of Time claim, validly noticed as a Variation or Extension of Time claim, was also noticed by the contractor “as soon as they become aware of it”. Inevitabl...

Giving notice, Interpreting SA2017 and NZS3910 together, makes for interesting (extension of) times.

Subcontractor Extension of Time Dis-entitlement, No harm no foul Three infill units, Auckland's North Shore 2021 There was a time when subcontractors were never allowed to be late. It was a time when, no subcontractor dared dream of submitting an EoT claim, in part because everyone on site kept a very close eye on numerous product supplier calendars, liberally pi...