Construction disputes.
Delay, disruption, defects, and payment disputes built on schedules, site diaries, notices, and expert analysis.
Construction and engineering disputes generate some of the largest records in litigation and arbitration: years of progress reports, site diaries, RFIs, variation instructions, payment applications, and notices, alongside the contract itself. Establishing what happened on site, when and why is the foundation of every delay, defect, and payment case.
Crimson builds a Case Model that links contract mechanisms, events on the schedule, notices served, and the correspondence around them to the claims and defenses in dispute. Teams can establish the factual chronology quickly, test expert analyses against it and prepare adjudication, arbitration, or court proceedings with every assertion cited to its source.
Typical case file
- Contracts, specifications, and drawings
- Schedules and progress reports
- Site diaries and daily records
- RFIs, variations, and instructions
- Payment applications, certificates, and notices
- Meeting minutes and correspondence
- Inspection, testing, and defects reports
- Expert delay and damages reports
The pressures
facing your team.
Large, unstructured project records
Correspondence, site diaries, drawings, photographs, and schedules arrive in many formats and rarely in order. Entitlement can turn on a single notice buried within them.
Delay analysis against the facts
Schedule-based delay analyses rest on assumptions about site events. Where those assumptions are contested, the factual record decides the point.
Multi-party, multi-tier disputes
Employer, main contractor, subcontractors, and consultants each hold part of the record. Teams must trace responsibility for defects or delay across the chain.
Adjudication timetables
Statutory adjudication compresses the analysis of a complex record into 28 days. There is no time to read everything twice.
A Case Model built for
construction disputes.
At upload, Crimson maps the parties, events, disputed facts, claims, defenses and evidence in your matter into a structured Case Model with full provenance. Every workflow below runs on that model.
Build the site chronology
Generate an event-level chronology from progress reports, diaries, meeting minutes, and correspondence, with each entry cited to the source document.
Track notices and contractual steps
The Case Model maps each notice, instruction, and application to the contractual mechanism it engages and the event it concerns, so you can check compliance at a glance.
Test delay and damages experts
Check the factual assumptions in schedule and damages analyses against the record and identify where they rely on disputed events.
Trace defects through the supply chain
Follow a defect from design through procurement, installation, and inspection to establish who knew what and when.
Respond at adjudication speed
Interrogate the whole record in hours, not weeks, to prepare referrals and responses grounded in the evidence.
Questions Crimson answers,
cited to the page.
Illustrative questions from construction disputes matters. Crimson traces each answer to the supporting document, page, and passage.
- Which notices were served in relation to the ground conditions event, and were they in time under clause 61.3?
- What does the site record show about when the façade defect was first identified?
- Build a chronology of all instructions and variations affecting the mechanical package.
- Where does the delay expert assume events that are contradicted by the progress reports?
- Summarize the parties' positions on concurrent delay with the evidence each relies on.
Common questions from construction disputes teams.
Yes. Crimson ingests the full project record, including technical documents and schedule exports, and links them within the Case Model to the events, notices, and correspondence they concern. The structured understanding of the matter is what lets Crimson find technical material and interpret it in context.
Also built for.
International Arbitration
Cross-border commercial and investor-state arbitrations with vast exhibit binders and tight memorial deadlines.
Insurance and Reinsurance Disputes
Coverage, aggregation, non-disclosure, and reinsurance disputes spanning policy wordings, placing records and underlying losses.
Commercial Litigation
Contract, shareholder, joint venture, and supply-chain disputes where the answer is buried in years of correspondence.