The strength of a delay claim depends entirely on the quality of its supporting evidence. Contemporaneous records — documents created at or near the time of the events they describe — carry far more weight than retrospective accounts.
Essential evidence categories include: daily site reports, project correspondence (letters, emails, RFIs), meeting minutes, site instructions and variation orders, programme updates, photographic records, weather data, inspection reports, and payment certificates.
The Evidence Assembler tool in Delay Claim Builder automatically classifies uploaded documents into 14 evidence categories and performs a gap analysis showing which categories lack contemporaneous records. This helps identify weaknesses in your evidence bundle before submission.