Contractors who considered themselves exposed might ask for an extension of time for such impacts.īy April, project owners and contractors were grappling with the removal of the limitation on working days under development consent conditions to facilitate COVID-safe working conditions by enabling work to potentially be spread across all seven days of the week.
In the early months of 2020, COVID-19 was, for the most part, considered to be a global supply chain problem. The world was changing, but our contracts were not. As discussions swirled around whether more thought was needed around climate change-driven risks to projects, a new peril was emerging. What have we learned from applying construction contracts in a world they weren’t drafted for?Īs the ash rained down around NSW in the latter part of 2019 and the first months of 2020, those not directly impacted by the fires were pulling construction contracts out to ask whether poor air quality was a ‘force majeure’.
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