ERRORS AND OMISSIONS IN CONTRACT DOCUMENTS LEADING CAUSE OF DISPUTES IN NORTH AMERICA: ARCADIS REPORT

摘要

For the second consecutive year, the leading cause of construction contract disputes in North America was errors and omissions in contract documents. While the value of disputes fell by nearly 14% in 2014, the time it took to resolve them lengthened substantially, to more than a year. These are some of the key findings in the "Global Construction Disputes Report 2015," the fifth such annual report produced by Arcadis. Its data are based on contract disputes handled by Arcadis's Construction Claims Consulting teams in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. (Arcadis could not provide statistics on the total value of disputes. But last year it served as a claims consultant on approximately 40 disputes with values up to $100 million.)