Thanks OltenPete for the figures. Most nights then seem to have been quite short - 4-5 hours. As I said earlier there are lots of preliminaries and clearing up to do however long the period - so not much time to work. But I assume the contractor agreed to all this.
No reason for counter claims from the contractor as the work was supposed to be completed at the end of March in the first place.
Jenny -If only it was so simple. Have you ever worked on contract claims? Probably employs more people than on the rest of a project put together.
There will probably be lots of claims on either side, which happens on any of these large infrastructure projects.
Looks like the Contractors were granted an extension to the contract as it ran on beyond March - that is quite possible bearing in mind any unforseen delays eg weather, resources, etc during the life of the contract and there will be clauses covering this. It depends what the terms of the extension were.
Claims sometimes only get resolved some time after the thing is finished - and at great expense as m'learned friends often get involved
