Construction claims and contract law, for practitioners
Reported judgments, solutions to 250+ legal/contractual issues, FIDIC clause by clause guidance, calculators and CPD for practitioners who prepare, defend and determine construction claims.
Society of Construction ClaimsSpecialists InternationalSince 2009
Construction claims and contract law, for practitioners
Reported judgments with the reasoning in full, clause-by-clause guidance to the standard forms, calculators for time and money, and continuing professional development. Written for claims specialists, quantity surveyors and construction lawyers.
Certification programmesThe Society's ECCCS, ECCDA and ECCCM programmes are delivered at sccsinternational.org
Contents
What is published here
A working reference for claims specialists, quantity surveyors and construction lawyers: the legal position on the problems that arise on real projects, the judgments behind it, and the tools to act on them.
250+ legal and contractual issues, each answered with the governing rule and the authorities behind it.
Technology and Construction Court judgments from 2003 onwards, each opened with a plain summary of what was decided.
A full law report on each case: the facts, the issue, the decision and the practice points that follow from it.
An interactive process flow for each case, mapping the reasoning step by step from the dispute to the ruling.
Navigators for all twenty clauses of the Red Book: the claims, the risks and the time bars each one carries.
720 self-test questions taken from the judgments themselves, to check how well a decision has landed.
Calculators, converters and working tools for delay, quantum, payment, retention and the notices that go with them.
Letters to adapt and send, covering contractual notifications, claims letters and formal legal notice.
Introduction to Construction Law in twelve lessons, written for people coming to the subject for the first time.
Today's filing, five questions on a reported judgment, the day's legal analysis and the decisions that change what a notice has to do.
Top of the desk
All of today's filing
United KingdomHSE amends asbestos clearance rules to remove conflicts of interest when removal contractors appoint the analystHSE will amend regulation 20 of the 2012 Regulations to deal with conflicts of interest.
Filed 8 November 2026
WorldA gunman kills six people in Krakow's Main Market Square, and three more bodies are found at his homeFour women and two men died in the square and 16 people were wounded, two of them police officers.
Filed 8 November 2026
Middle EastAbu Dhabi property transactions rise 76 per cent to Dh171 billion in the first nine months of 2026Sales more than doubled in value to Dh119.33 billion.
Filed 8 November 2026
Tech and AIOpenAI closes 11 billion dollars of a new funding round at a 1.25 trillion dollar valuation and says it will keep building data centresOpenAI has closed an 11 billion dollar first tranche of a round valuing it at 1.25 trillion.
Filed 8 November 2026Ninety seconds
The Daily Knowledge Check
Five questions on claims and contract law. Every answer opens onto the authority behind it.
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Three to read
One reported judgment from the Technology and Construction Court, and two stories from this morning that are not already above.
Reported judgmentCrest Nicholson Regeneration Limited & Ors v Ardmore Construction Limited (in Administration) & Ors [2026] EWHC 789 (TCC)
A developer facing large fire safety defect claims sought to make the parent and group companies.
6 minutes
United KingdomA scaffolding company is fined £16,000 after a trainee scaffolder fell five metres to his death near Ripon
The trainee stepped onto an unsecured board while erecting scaffolding at a two-storey house.
3 minutes
Tech and AIGoogle takes over Crusoe's unfinished Wyoming data centre site and commits 17 billion dollars to build its first campus in the state
Google has bought Crusoe's unfinished data centre project near Cheyenne and plans.
3 minutesLegal analysis
Tripwire v Astor: a buyer who paid a USD 9.45 million advance for goods never delivered wins on liability but gets no interim payment The point of law, 7 November 2026The High Court gave summary judgment for non-delivery against a seller that called its breach mere delay and pleaded a conspiracy counterclaim.
All legal analysisTerm of the day
Tender qualification Parties, roles and project documentsA tender qualification states an assumption, exclusion or departure in a bid. It must be resolved and incorporated if it is to affect the final contract.
The full glossaryDecided in the last seven days
The risk board
Four rulings that change what a notice, a bid or a bond has to do. Each one opens the full report.
Neath Port Talbot tenders 405m pound SWTRA highways framework
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council has opened the tender for the SWTRA Highways & Structures Framework 2027, a two-lot framework for work on the strategic road network in South Wales with an estimated value of 405m pounds excluding VAT.
7 November 2026TenderValleys to Coast seeks contractors for 250m pound framework
Valleys to Coast Housing has started procurement of a multi-supplier Contractors Framework for its building work in Wales, with an estimated value of 250m pounds excluding VAT across four lots defined by scheme size.
7 November 2026TenderNHS SBS pushes 2.3bn pound consultancy tender into 2027
NHS Shared Business Services has put back the tender for its Public Sector Construction Consultancy framework, estimated at 2.3bn pounds excluding VAT, to mid-January 2027, and has given the same revised date for its 750m pound Public Sector Construction Works 2 framework.
7 November 2026TenderWestminster tenders 65.6m pound heating and electrical contracts
Westminster City Council has gone to tender for three housing maintenance contracts covering mechanical services and heat networks, domestic heating and electrical services, with a combined estimated value of 65.6m pounds excluding VAT over a maximum five years.
7 November 2026