I have been involved with many claims but unfortunately there are many individuals, current boss included, that don’t understand the importance of the using the program as the main basis when compiling a claim, whether it be an EOT, Cost or Cost plus profit, and in some cases it could be a combination of two. I recently attended a FIDIC course run by Axel-Volkmar Jaeger, a man instumental in the writing of the FIDIC form of contract, and he raised some very important issues regarding Programs (Clause 8.3) and how to go about using the document to maintain your contractural rights. The most interesting item that he mentioned was that "the float in your program belongs to the client and not the contractor" which I found rather confusing as I have always understood that the float belongs to the contractor and this has got me thinking on how best to make all my activities "start as late as possible" or "zero float" everything and thus hide all my float in the activity duration and therefore maintaining my contractural rights to EOT as everything will be on critical path. Any thoughts on this matter will be appreciated.