Adverse weather condition totally belongs to Neither Party’s Default either Employer or Contractor so you may only get Extension of Time not compensation in any case.

No. of UK’s authorities and judgments are available on this issue

Hi Nicos,
Dont just Focus On weather, U can find more reason to claims more cost somthing like VO, No Acesss, Damage being done by other contractor and etc the only think u have to do is track back all obstruction in the schedule and compile all together.
regards

Nicos,

I hope you are reading these posts from bottom to top of page -

In most contracts weather will entitle to you an eot but not any money and this will most probably be the case in your contract. (but not always) An eot does not always entitle you to money and you will have to look at your contract to see -

The eot clause will often give you just that, an eot but no entitlement to anything else.

You will usually have to look at the other clauses to establish if any money is actually due.

Nicos,

Ironically I have spent the afternoon reading an arbitration award which had a similar situation in it. A case quoted - Floods of Queensferry Limited & Anor v Shand Construction Limited and Others [1999] 1 BLR 326 in which this point was debated by Judge Lloyd QC, quote -

"... here I assume that work was prolonged into period of inclement weather or winter working by a breach or a breach of contract on the part of the Defendent or by additional work being required by the Defendent....

The upshot is that my present view is that some assessment must be made of the actual costs that were incurred by Floods in carrying out work in times of inclement weather or winter working. ie the costs that they incurred beyond those which they would actually have incurred had that work been done in accordance with whatever programme or sequence would havw applied and the balance or the difference between the two used to construct a percentage uplift which would then be applied to the sub contract rates...

I think that the approach to the assessment in working in periods of bad weather or winter working should be carried out on an actual basis rather than any hypothetical basis, by which I mean FCEC rates."

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ie difference in cost between carrying out what you would have been carrying out in the adverse weather event had the delay not occurred and actual costs that were incurred carrying out the work you were actually doing because of the delay. Hope that makes sense!!!!!!!!!!!

Several other cases exist that establish your right of recovery of costs if due to an Employers delay you are subject to adverse weather conditions.

All,

Generally correct that eot and not money is entitlement for adverse weather. If an eot has been granted and during this period further adverse weather is experienced then the eot is simply extended to cover this period under the same conditions and contract clauses as it was originally granted.