For professionals working with construction contracts, ensuring timely payment is critical. Delays or disputes over payment can jeopardise projects and profitability, often leading to costly and time-consuming claims through conciliation, adjudication, or arbitration.

This one-day course will give you the practical knowledge and skills to protect your financial interests, resolve disputes efficiently, and strengthen contract management. By attending, you’ll gain clear answers to complex questions around payment claims, notices, delay assessments, and contract breach, all designed to help you avoid costly errors and improve your project outcomes.

Benefits of Attending 

• Ensure you get paid on time by mastering payment claim procedures across all major contract types.
• Reduce dispute risks by applying proven legal principles on breach, damages, and delay claims.
• Prepare and present claims with strong evidence and clear delay analysis.
• Manage unforeseen event claims confidently, including force majeure, to protect your financial interests.
• Negotiate better settlements by understanding contractor entitlements and employer delay impacts.

Course Content

• Overview of Irish construction contracts and handling of payment and delay claims
• Legal foundations: breach of contract, damages, causation, remoteness, mitigation‍
• Managing money claims: evidence collection, claim preparation, negotiation strategies
• Assessing and analysing delay: programming, concurrent delay, employer delays
• Dispute resolution: preparing for conciliation, adjudication, arbitration
• Money and delay claims due to unforeseen events
• Force majeure principles
• Calculating losses and presenting claims effectively
• Practical steps to present a strong claim to employers and stakeholders

Some key questions to be asked include:

• What is the law on documents issued ‘for information only’?
• Who needs to be aware of whatever gives rise to the claim?
• When should the notice under clause 10.3.1 of the PWC be triggered?
• What level of detail is required in the follow-up documents?
• If an employer delay is the ‘dominant cause’, what is the contractor entitled to?

Who Should Attend?

Construction professionals, contract managers, project managers, and legal advisers working for employers, contractors, and subcontractors in both public and private sectors.

Certification

On completion of this one-day training course, you will receive your Certificate of Attendance. Please note certificates are issued at the close of the training course to participants on completion of the course.

This course may qualify for CPD points. Please check directly with your association or awarding body to see how many points they will award.

Cost

An ‘Early Bird’ discounted rate of €499 is currently available. This training course normal rate is €599. Places are limited and are allocated on a first come first served basis. PLEASE NOTE THE EARLY BIRD RATE CLOSES 3 WEEKS PRIOR TO COURSE DATE. The course cost includes all course documentation and Certificate of Attendance.