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Month seven
The client's designer was late with the valve chamber drawing. Site waited three weeks for it.
Kofi's journey · Commercial · Story 4
The claim you can't prove
A delay claim hangs on when a drawing reached site. The proof is spread across six inboxes.
The wrong way
Month seven
Kofi prepares a delay claim. He needs to prove when the drawing arrived.
The trail
It came by email. To Dave. Then to the site engineer. Then a revised one to someone on holiday.
The search
Kofi asks everyone to search their inboxes. Six people, six different answers, two emptied folders.
The records
The client's records say it was issued on the 3rd. Ours show a forwarded email from the 24th, with no attachment.
The claim
Kofi: Three weeks of standing time, and I can't prove one day of it.
The claim fails.
Three weeks late, and no way to prove it.
Find out what Kofi should have doneKofi's Lesson 4 · The claim you can't prove, then the same story done the right way.