Construction Claim Analysing Model

Abstract

Construction disputes arising due to claims will result in drastic challenges to the projects as well as different stakeholders. Delays in the project, cost overruns, unexpected terminations of the projects, and resource idling can be identified as a few among many problems caused by construction disputes. Hence effective management of construction disputes is very important. Prior to initiating a claim, with relevant to a specific scenario, stakeholders tend to analyse the causes for the disputes with relevant conditions of the contracts and relevant legal provisions of the country. This is with the intention of aiding their decision on whether to go for a claim or to avoid the claiming. This procedure will ultimately result in lowering the number of disputes due to avoidance of low success rate claims. Even though this is a good strategy, it will take lot of human time and effort to go through all the documentation and come up with possible outcomes. Also in most cases, according to the conditions of contracts, a claim notice should be given within a very limited number of days to get the claim. But with limited human resources and time, this manual process could affect other processes of the project as well. Therefore, the completion of this process is very challenging and cumbersome. Hence this proposed software application is intended to automate this process and thereby to reduce the time and effort of the humans and to get a better outcome with proper success rates.