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activities and completed construction works in this area of the site.
The effect of the excavation of the road crossing by the infrastruc-
ture contractor was to prevent such deliveries from being made
between the dates of 1 and 9 February 2010 and effectively to
suspend the construction activities until 10 February 2010, the day
after the access was reinstated. The Daily Site Report of 9 February
2010 4 and the photographs included in Appendix C herein record
the progress of the affected dwellings at the time when the road
crossing was reinstated and the works were able to recommence as
normal.
4. This period of suspension had the effect of delaying the Time for
Completion of the Works and this has been demonstrated by impact-
ing the event on the individual activities on the current baseline
programme (included herein under Appendix A) in order to produce
an impacted baseline programme which is included herein under
Appendix B .
5. The effect on each dwelling is shown as follows:
a. House No. 36
i. Progress on 1 February 2010: reinforcement to the raft foun-
dation in progress and due to be completed on 2 February
2010.
ii. The concrete gang can only complete one raft per day and
House No. 38 was programmed to start prior to House No.
36. Thus, concreting to House No. 38 took place on 10
February 2010 when the access was reinstated. The gang
followed on with House No. 36 on 11 February 2010. Thus,
the effect was to delay concreting of the raft foundation from
the planned date of 3 February to 11 February 2010, a delay
of 8 calendar days.
iii. The effect on the overall programme has been demonstrated
by impacting the baseline programme as follows:
1. Activity: concrete to raft foundation.
2. Activity start date deferred by 8 calendar days.
b. House No. 38
i. Progress on 1 February 2010: ready for concrete to be poured
to the raft foundation on that day.
ii. The effect was to delay concreting of the raft foundation from
the planned date of 1 February to 10 February 2010, a delay
of 9 calendar days.
iii. The effect on the overall programme has been demonstrated
by impacting the baseline programme as follows:
1. Activity: concrete to raft foundation.
2. Activity start date deferred by 9 calendar days.
4 Exhibit 4 - Daily Site Report, dated 09/02/10