Claims advisory delivered by a partner of Yuhuang Estimating — a Chartered Quantity Surveyor who is also a qualified Arbitrator, with 33 years on Singapore’s largest building and civil contracts, including the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System and LTA rail. We build, and defend, EOT, loss & expense and variation claims under the SIA form and PSSCOC.
Because our partner has sat as arbitrator, we can credibly act for either party — the detail that loses one side’s claim is the detail that defends the other. Choose your path.
Main contractors & sub-contractors. The EOT was refused, LDs loom, a variation won’t be valued, or your payment claim was slashed and the SOP clock is running.
Developers, owners, architects, consultants, SOs. A large EOT and loss-and-expense claim has landed, or an adjudication is lodged — and the board wants to know what’s actually real.
A lawyer argues the words. A quantity surveyor prices the loss. The rare advisor does both — and reads your claim already seeing how an arbitrator will decide it.
Strong on entitlement and law — but cannot build the quantum, the delay analysis, or the cost that proves the number.
Can measure and value — but doesn’t think like the tribunal that will decide whether the claim stands.
Builds the claim that makes the lawyer’s job easy — and often unnecessary — because it’s already written to survive a tribunal.
Post-award contract and claims advisory — for the contractor making the claim, and the owner, architect or consultant defending it.
Recovering — or testing — the additional cost of delay and disruption, not limited to prolongation.
Entitlement, notices, and the delay analysis a tribunal will actually accept.
Fair valuation when the contract rates no longer fit the changed work — beyond the schedule of rates.
Rules of interpretation and order of precedence — which document prevails, and what the words mean.
Payment claims, payment responses and adjudication applications — on the statutory clock.
Quantum and delay analysis built to stand as evidence, alongside your solicitors.
Our claims advisory is led by a partner of Yuhuang Estimating: a Chartered Quantity Surveyor who is also a qualified Arbitrator, with 33 years on major building and civil contracts — including the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) and LTA rail. Fluent in the SIA Conditions, PSSCOC and the Security of Payment Act.
WhatsApp or email your contract and key correspondence. Strictly confidential; NDA on request, and it reaches the principal — not a general inbox.
Within 48 hours: is the claim — or the defence — real? What is it worth? And what is at risk on the clock right now?
A quoted scope only if you decide to proceed. Assessment first, engagement second — you spend nothing to learn where you stand.
Each answer is written to be quoted: a direct definition first, the detail beneath.
Extension of time is about time — relief from liquidated damages. Loss & expense is about money — the additional cost of the delay. They are assessed under different clauses, on different tests, and one does not follow automatically from the other.
A contractor can win the EOT and still recover nothing in prolongation if it cannot prove actual loss caused by a compensable event. Winning the time does not win the money.
Often the consultant first. Most claims are won or lost on the QS work — the records, the entitlement, the quantum — long before a lawyer is needed.
We build the claim that makes the lawyer’s job easy, and frequently unnecessary. When arbitration is required, we work alongside your solicitors and reduce what you spend on them.
| How disputes are resolved | SOP Adjudication | Arbitration | Litigation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | Fast (statutory) | Months–years | Years |
| Cost | Low | High | High |
| Finality | Interim — “pay now, argue later” | Final & binding | Final & binding |
| Confidential | Yes | Yes | No (public) |
| Best for | Cash-flow / progress payment | Complex final disputes | — |
The first step is free and fixed-scope — a confidential position view, no engagement, no obligation. A single under-valued variation or a missed prolongation head can dwarf any advisory fee. Beyond the first look, fees are staged and quoted before you commit.
Every enquiry is treated in strict confidence. Nothing you send is shared, and we will work under NDA from first contact. Your message reaches the principal directly.
It’s exactly why our numbers are credible: we price live tenders every day, so we know how rates are really built up. We run a conflict check before accepting any matter and decline where there’s any clash. Your matter is never touched by anyone connected to the other side.
Maybe not — and that is precisely why to send the contract now. Many notice provisions are conditions precedent, but whether a deadline truly bars your claim depends on the exact wording and the facts. We’ll tell you where you stand quickly, before assuming the worst.
WhatsApp or email your contract and key correspondence. A Chartered QS and qualified Arbitrator will tell you whether your claim, or your defence, holds — what it’s worth, and what’s at risk on the clock.