Services / Claims and Compensation Events
Claims built on evidence, not optimism
From first estimate to final account, and from a single notice to a full dispute, we keep the numbers honest and the contract position defensible.
// RICS regulated // NEC3 & NEC4 specialists // Pre & post-contract // UK-wide //
Claims and Compensation Events from Peak Commercial
Commercial · NEC · Claims & Compensation Events
Peak Commercial prepares, assesses and defends construction claims and NEC compensation events for contractors and subcontractors. Our claims are built to hold up under scrutiny, by the other party, an adjudicator or a tribunal, and our principals' record includes six-figure adjudication outcomes acting for both referring and responding parties.
A claim succeeds or fails on three things: entitlement under the contract, cause and effect that can be demonstrated, and quantum that survives examination. Most failed claims are weak on the second. They assert delay and disruption without showing the mechanism, and they collapse the moment someone competent tests them.
We build claims the other way around. We start with the records, establish what actually happened and what the contract says about it, and tell you honestly what the claim is worth before you spend money pursuing it. If the answer is that the position is weak, you will hear that from us first, while it is still cheap to hear.
On NEC contracts, the compensation event mechanism is where most value is won and lost. We prepare and notify compensation events, build quotations that the Project Manager can accept, challenge assessments that are wrong, and manage the interaction between compensation events, the programme and Defined Cost. We know where disallowed cost arguments genuinely bite and where they are being used as a negotiating posture; one of our principals has published on disallowed cost and the cost of subcontractor disputes under the NEC4 ECC in the NEC's own newsletter.
We also defend. We act for responding parties facing claims, testing entitlement, causation and quantum with the same rigour we apply when pursuing, which is precisely why we know where claims break.
Our principals have prepared and run claims through negotiation and adjudication with six-figure awards and settlements on both sides of the table, negotiated design-liability claims to settlement without escalation to formal proceedings, and prepared a successful Part 8 claim in the Technology and Construction Court with follow-on commercial claims negotiated to settlement.
Compensation event notification, quotation and assessment
Extension of time and prolongation claims
Loss and expense and disruption claims
Disallowed cost analysis and defence
Final account claims and negotiation
Claim defence and counter-analysis for responding parties
Entitlement reviews: an honest appraisal before you commit
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