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Exceptional weather: notifying the event

Contractor side: Compensation events

It's been the wettest month anyone can remember and we lost six days. Can we claim for the weather?

Where the contract stands

Only if the numbers pass. Under 60.1(13) what counts is a measurement for the calendar month at the place named in the Contract Data, which the weather data shows happens less often than once in ten years. Your site experience shows the effect, not the event, and only the difference from the one-in-ten figure counts.

Read the guide: Bad weather as a compensation event and Proving a weather event

This is our plain-English summary, not legal advice. Your own contract, including any Z clauses, decides.

In Contract Status, step by step

  1. Warn if it could affect the job

    Weeks of rain threatening Completion is worth an early warning whatever the final figures say. The form is the same one used for any matter.

    The Add Draft Early Warning form

    Early warning first, if the effect could reach the Prices or Completion.

  2. Notify with the figures

    Choose + Add on Compensation Events, pick the weather clause from the list and put the recorded figure against the one-in-ten value in the details. Attach the supplier's figures and your site records.

    A notification titled rainfall in September above the one-in-ten-year value with figures in the details and clause 60.1(13)

    NCE-0009: 168 mm recorded against a 132 mm one-in-ten value.

  3. What the Project Manager sees

    The same record, from the other side. The banner says the reply is overdue and what you can now do, and the main button is Reply.

    The same notification from the Client side with a banner saying your reply is overdue

    NCE-0009 from the Client side.

What it does not do: Contract Status does not fetch weather data or test the figure for you. You compare the month with the weather data, then record the result.

All screens are from the upgraded app, using a fictional water company, Kestrel Valley Water, and its made-up contractors.

What happens next on the other side

The Project Manager replies within a week: Request Quotation if the event stands, or Rejected with a reason. If the reply is late, you have the same notice route. In this example the reply is overdue, so the banner offers you the notice.

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