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Tower C — Commercial Tower & Podium

Completion drift across revisions R9 → R12

Client
Meridian Estates (owner)
Contractor
Calderwood Construction Ltd
Revisions
R9, R10, R11, R12
Window
Nov 2025 – Feb 2026
Baseline of record
R10 (1 Nov 2027)
Contract
JCT D&B 2016

Trend summary

4
Revisions analysed
+28d
Completion drift (R9→R12)
19 Nov 27
Current forecast finish
+9d
Avg slip / period

Every revision in this window has pushed the completion date later. No period recovered time — the drift is monotonic, which is the pattern that most reliably precedes a serious overrun.

Completion-date trend

Forecast completion date by revision — days later than the R9 forecast
0d +10d +20d +30d R10 baseline of record R922 Oct 27 R101 Nov 27 R119 Nov 27 R1219 Nov 27

Where the delay was introduced — period waterfall

Delay added each reporting period (calendar days), accumulating to +28d
0d +10d +20d +28d R9 start +10 R9→R10 +8 R10→R11 +10 R11→R12 +28 R12 total

Revision register

RevisionData dateForecast finishPeriod slipCumulativeDelay introduced by
R930 Nov 2522 Oct 270dReference revision
R1031 Dec 251 Nov 27+10d+10dStructural steel procurement re-sequenced (Grid G package)
R1131 Jan 269 Nov 27+8d+18dLevel 3 pre-pour held pending RFI-214 (employer)
R1228 Feb 2619 Nov 27+10d+18d*Grid G erection rework + MEP logic closed
Net drift over the window (R9 → R12)+28d*+18d vs R10 baseline of record

Trend narrative

Across four consecutive revisions the forecast completion of Tower C has moved steadily later, from 22 October 2027 at R9 to 19 November 2027 at R12 — a cumulative drift of 28 calendar days over three reporting periods, and 18 days against the R10 baseline of record. Critically, no period recovered any time: each update added delay. A monotonic drift of this kind is a stronger warning than any single large slip, because it shows the programme is losing ground systematically rather than absorbing a one-off event.

The delay did not arrive all at once, and tracing it period by period shows a migrating cause. The first slip (R9→R10, +10 days) came from re-sequencing the Grid G structural steel package during procurement. The second (R10→R11, +8 days) was an employer-side event — the Level 3 pre-pour held for a response to RFI-214. The third (R11→R12, +10 days) returned to the steel scope as the Grid G erection sequence was reworked, compounded by previously open logic on the MEP rough-in being closed.

The practical implication is that the Grid G structural steel package is the recurring driver: it introduced delay in two of the three periods and remains on the critical path. Recovery effort concentrated there will do more to arrest the trend than attention spread across the programme. The single employer-side event (RFI-214) is quantified separately and is relevant to any extension-of-time position — it is examined in full in the Claim Brief.

Methodology

Cross-update matching. Activities are reconciled across all four revisions by unique Activity ID, with a name-and-WBS fallback for re-coded activities, so a slip is tracked to the same physical work across the series even where IDs or descriptions change.

Period attribution. Each period's slip is the movement of the forecast completion date between consecutive data dates. The "delay introduced by" column identifies the activities on or joining the critical path that account for that period's movement.

Limitation. The trend reflects the schedules as submitted at each data date. It does not incorporate correspondence or site records beyond what the schedules encode. Forensic entitlement for the employer-side and contractor-side events is addressed by the Claim Brief, not this trend report.

This is a condensed sample. The live Trend Analysis is considerably more extensive — generated from your own sequence of schedule revisions with full activity-level detail and complete supporting appendices per revision.
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