Our engagements in a claims management capacity include:

• developing and leading claim strategies developed with the input of executive management;
• developing programs, budgets and other management and reporting tools to support the claims process;
• workshops and interviews with project staff, along with the review of project documents, to determine claims opportunities;
• technical analysis of claim components, including the analysis of delay, disruption, acceleration and direct costs;
• identification and preparation of claims and the collation of supporting information, including technical documents and claims analyses, in order to prepare and support claims; and
• advising senior management and legal on strengths, weaknesses and claim prospects.

Calibrate undertakes detailed prospective and forensic analysis of project delay to provide our clients clarity on their real position. We apply a wide range of recognised technical analysis methods, paying close attention to the facts and the common sense impacts of delay events.

We specialise in analysing complex delay events, including analysis that are intertwined with consideration of issues of disruption, acceleration, concurrency, overlapping causal factors, prolongation costs and a range of other issues.

We distil our findings into easy to understand graphics, tables and summaries to effectively communicate the claim position.

The analysis methods we regularly apply include:

• As-Planned versus As-Built;
• Time Slice Windows Analysis;
• Collapsed As-Built; and
• Time-Impact Analysis.

We have significant experience at analysing disruption events that often arise on large-scale projects. The analysis of disruption is often complex and requires a strong understanding of the sources of useful information and the various analytical methods available.

We prove disruption by well-articulated claim positions that are underpinned by facts and robust analysis.

We also advise clients on record keeping requirements that are necessary to support a disruption claim.

Calibrate pairs the application of well-established claim valuation principles along with forensic analysis to ensure the full value of prolongation and disruption claims is captured.

In preparing prolongation costs, we interrogate records of actual preliminary and other time-based costs and prepare valuations of other typical uplifts and allowances that are routinely missed or undervalued in prolongation cost claims.

In order to value disruption costs, we utilise a combination of progress records, quantities, loss of productivity analyses and actual cost records to prepare an accurate valuation.

We are engaged to provide an independent evaluation of a wide range of claims including:

• Complex and major variation claims, including cumulative impacts;
• Delay analysis and extension of time claims;
• Prolongation cost claims;
• Acceleration claims;
• Disruption claims.

We are regularly called upon to undertake claim reviews to assist senior management and legal advisors to understand the correct position on contentious or disputed claims.