Delay, Quantum & Damages Support
Clear technical analysis for complex construction claims and disputes.
Construction disputes rarely begin as legal disputes.
They begin as project events: a late design, changed scope, access restriction, differing condition, disrupted sequence, delayed decision, procurement issue, productivity loss or accumulating variation.
Stoneboy helps counsel, owners, contractors and project teams understand those events through schedule, time, cost and evidence.
Our PMD practice supports construction claims and disputes with forensic scheduling, delay and disruption analysis, variation analysis, quantum and damages support, chronology development and technical claim review.
Supporting Construction Counsel
Stoneboy works with construction counsel on technical issues involving schedules, delay, variations, quantum, damages and the underlying project record.
We provide technical analysis that helps counsel understand, test and communicate project issues while legal advice, entitlement and legal strategy remain with counsel.
Delay & Disruption Analysis
Delay analysis begins with understanding how the project was planned and how it actually progressed.
Stoneboy examines:
- Baseline and updated schedules
- Project sequencing
- Critical and near-critical activities
- Milestone movement
- Project events
- Contemporaneous progress
- Mitigation and recovery
- Competing or concurrent events
- Actual completion
The purpose is to determine the relationship between events and time consequences, rather than simply identify that the project finished late.
Schedule Quality Before Delay Conclusions
A delay analysis is only as reliable as the evidence beneath it.
Schedules often become central evidence in construction claims. Stoneboy assesses whether the relevant schedules are sufficiently reliable for the analytical purpose before depending on them for delay conclusions.
We examine areas such as logic, constraints, calendars, progress, float, milestones, out-of-sequence work and critical-path integrity.
This is particularly important where schedule files have changed significantly over time or where the project record contains inconsistencies.
Forensic Scheduling
Stoneboy uses forensic scheduling to reconstruct and analyze how the project evolved. Depending on the matter, this can involve:
- Critical-path analysis
- Time Impact / Time Variation Analysis
- Windows analysis
- Milestone analysis
- Contemporaneous schedule review
- As-planned / as-built comparisons
- Event analysis
The appropriate methodology depends on the project, the available records and the question being addressed. The methodology should follow the evidence — not the other way around.
Quantum & Damages
Time consequences often lead to financial consequences. Stoneboy supports the analysis and quantification of project costs associated with delay, disruption, variations and other project events.
- Prolongation
- Labour and equipment impacts
- Disruption and productivity effects
- Variation costs
- Site and project overheads
- Escalation
- Additional project costs
- Other supported financial consequences
Our objective is to connect the claimed amount to the underlying project event, record and analytical basis.
Variation Analysis
Many claims begin with a change.
Stoneboy's Variation Analysis examines the chain from Scope → Time → Cost using the project's contemporaneous records to understand what changed, how the change affected the programme and what financial consequences followed.
Our SVA, TVA and CVA framework provides a structured way to examine those relationships.
Claims Preparation, Review & Response
Stoneboy can support both the preparation and review of construction claims. Our role may include:
- Technical claim assessment
- Schedule analysis
- Variation analysis
- Chronology
- Evidence review
- Quantum support
- Rebuttal analysis
- Technical memoranda
- Expert-support analysis
We work alongside construction counsel where legal issues, entitlement and dispute strategy are involved. Stoneboy provides the technical analysis; counsel retains responsibility for legal advice and legal strategy.
Chronology & Evidence
Large construction matters often contain thousands — or millions — of project records.
The challenge is not simply locating documents. It is understanding which events matter, when they happened, what they affected, how they relate to one another, and what evidence supports the conclusion.
Stoneboy develops event chronologies and organizes relevant technical records around the issues being analyzed. This improves both the analysis and the ability to explain it.
Better Deliverables
Strong analysis is only useful if the reader can understand it.
Stoneboy places emphasis on clear writing, strong graphics, understandable schedule exhibits, event chronologies, concise summaries and traceable supporting evidence.
For complex matters, technical conclusions should not disappear inside hundreds of pages of analysis.
What happened? Why does it matter? What is the effect? Where is the evidence?
Support Before the Dispute
Stoneboy can also assist counsel and their clients before a formal claim develops.
This may include Schedule Quality reviews, independent schedule assessments, claims-readiness reviews, variation monitoring, early delay analysis, source-data assessments and technical second opinions.
Early intervention can improve the project record and give both the client and counsel a clearer understanding of developing risk.
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A more connected project record when the evidence matters most.
Construction claims often require teams to reconstruct events from schedules, correspondence, cost records, decisions and thousands of project documents.
Novologic connects project information around the events being analyzed, strengthening chronology, traceability and access to supporting evidence.
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Technical Support for Counsel & Project Teams
Stoneboy supports construction matters from early technical assessment through complex forensic analysis.
Whether the question begins with a schedule, a variation, a developing claim or an established dispute, our objective is the same: make the project record understandable, test the technical position and communicate the conclusions clearly.