End to end expert support managing commercial outcomes:

Risk Identification and Avoidance

Combining forensic insight from disputes and expert witness work with deep contractual and commercial expertise to identify entitlement, notice, variation and programme risks early, allowing proactive measures to prevent issues from escalating.

B+A Approach

• Contract clause risk heat mapping and entitlement trigger identification.
• Early delay risk screening and programme exposure analysis.
• Establishment of claims registers and risk tracking frameworks.
• Implementation of contemporaneous record and evidence strategies.
• Executive risk visibility informing annual claims financial reporting.

Contractor Outcomes

Through early risk identification, proactive contract management, and robust programme oversight, B+A helps Contractors protect contractual entitlements and ensure compliance with notice procedures. This reduces disputes, strengthens the contractor’s commercial position, and improves project risk governance.

Claims Governance and Contract Management

Integrated claims advisory expertise within project delivery, combining strong contractor-side commercial insight with extensive contractual and programme experience, and ensuring contractual obligations are effectively aligned with project controls, governance, and reporting frameworks.

B+A Approach

• Establishment of structured claims governance frameworks.
• Implementation of compliant notice and claims procedures.
• Development of variation management systems and approval processes.
• Integration of programme, cost and contractual reporting.
• Guidance on commercial correspondence and contractual positioning.

Contractor Outcomes

Through robust contract administration and disciplined claims management, B+A help contractors achieve stronger compliance with contractual obligations, improved visibility of project risks and entitlements, well-structured documentation supporting potential claims, and a significantly reduced likelihood of disputes arising early.

Claims Analysis and Defense

Specialist expertise in delay, quantum and disruption analysis, supported by arbitration and expert witness experience, applying robust analytical methodologies to prepare, defend and critically evaluate complex construction claims.

B+A Approach

• Detailed review of claims submissions and supporting evidence.
• Programme and delay analysis using recognised methodologies.
• Assessment of credible prolongation, disruption and variation costs.
• Identification of contractual and evidential weaknesses in claims.
• Preparation of structured claim responses and defence strategies.

Contractor Outcomes

B+A enhances protection against inflated or unsupported claims through clear assessment of contractual entitlement and liability exposure, strengthening the contractor’s negotiation position, reducing financial and programme risk, and promoting earlier resolution to minimise escalation to arbitration or litigation.

Baseline Scheduling

Advanced expertise in project planning and critical path analysis, integrating contractual requirements into robust baseline schedules for major projects, with a clear understanding of how programmes underpin effective delay and claims analysis.

B+A Approach

• Development and review of compliant baseline programmes.
• Validation of logic, sequencing and critical path integrity.
• Alignment of programme structure with contractual milestones.
• Identification of programme risks and schedule vulnerabilities.
• Establishment of update and progress monitoring protocols.

Contractor Outcomes

B+A provides robust, defensible baseline schedules that provide clear visibility of critical activities, improve programme management and progress monitoring, and establish a strong evidential foundation for delay analysis and time-related claims while reducing the risk of programme disputes.