Construction Claims & Commercial Intelligence

Expertise.Evolved.

Decades of claims experience inform the case we build for your entitlement and the systems we engineer for the projects ahead.

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Claims Experience
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Disciplines
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Partner Involvement
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The conviction behind Meritus

We can do
this better.

Meritus was founded on a conviction: experience should improve practice. Our practitioners have spent decades investigating construction disputes, tracing their causes through instructions, programmes, costs and records.

We brought five disciplines together to examine those connections. Our specialists work with in-house engineers to apply that knowledge to claims analysis and practical systems for contractors.

Five disciplines.
One claims practice.

Construction disputes call for different kinds of expertise. We bring delay, quantum, technical, advisory and technology capabilities to the matters we take on.

Delay

A clear position on time.

Specialist opinion on delay, disruption and extensions of time. Our practitioners bring programme expertise to the preparation, assessment and resolution of construction claims.

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Areas of expertise

  • Delay and disruption
  • Extensions of time
  • Programme disputes

Construction intelligence, in practice.

Less time assembling.
More time understanding.

Experience shapes the analysis.
Our engineers build it in.

Our construction intelligence brings the project record into focus: individual emails retain their context across inboxes, programme revisions can be compared and costs traced to their source.

Each specialist model is trained for its discipline, drawing on practitioner experience and specialist knowledge. Analytical algorithms perform the programme and cost calculations. Our practitioners direct the investigation, challenge the findings and form the conclusions.

By automating repetitive preparation, we give our practitioners more time to examine cause, test the valuation and develop the position.

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“...the importance of records, the importance of records and the importance of records.”
Max W. Abrahamson, Engineering Law and the I.C.E. Contracts.

A lesson worth
building into the work.

We still see the consequences of missing instructions, scattered correspondence and changes recorded too late. We build record capture, responsibility and review into everyday tasks, so the evidence develops with the work.

Pathway to your Entitlement

Recover what is due.
Protect what comes next.

A claim may reveal an approval that was never recorded, a programme that stopped reflecting the work, or a change whose cost was recognised too late.

We can apply those lessons while projects are live. Our practitioners identify the commercial need; our engineers help build the process around it, with clear records, responsibilities and visibility for the team.

Pathway to your Entitlement expresses a wider ambition: to help your business recover what is due and retain more of the value its work creates.

Beyond the claim

What we work towards

Protect the margin

Capture change, understand its cost and give commercial teams a clearer basis for action.

Make the tender stronger

Show how you will deliver, with credible programmes, clear responsibilities and evidence of working systems.

Give expertise room to work

Reduce repeated filing, searching and rekeying, giving skilled people more time to plan, manage and exercise their judgement.

Address issues earlier

Bring the record, the responsibility and the decision together while there is still an opportunity to avoid escalation.

Built from experience

What we learn in claims
shapes what we build.

VeriCase connects correspondence, documents and programme analysis around the matter. The same engineering capability extends to the work that creates those records: site issues, approvals, reporting and the day-to-day running of a construction business.

Our wider work includes land search and reports, workforce competence and training. We reuse existing components, adapt the workflow and build what the business needs.

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Systems developed in-house

From a site issue to a reviewed decision.

Our workflows connect drawing-linked issues, assigned responsibilities, photographs, pricing and separate approvals, giving the client, contractor and delivery team a shared record of the work.

  1. Capture the issue
  2. Assign responsibility
  3. Record the response
  4. Review and approve

Foresight uses illustrative scenarios to show how an exchange across inboxes can become an issue for assessment, with the relevant record and a proposed action.

Insights

Current analysis

The Reach

Adjudicate, Then Attach: One Decision, the Whole Group

The relationship between adjudication, building liability orders and the project records relevant to a corporate group’s position.

September 2026|9 min
The Sequence

Pay Now, Value Later: The Notified Sum Is a Timing Rule

A subcontractor was awarded its notified sum, was paid it, and two months after the court enforced the order was directed to repay 96 per cent of it. The VMA cases show what a notified sum actually buys; the 2026 notice cases show which side of it a party will be on.

September 2026|9 min
The Release

The End of Retentions: A Three Year Clock That Has Not Started

The Commercial Payments Bill will ban retentions, but not on the day it is passed and not all at once. It creates a transition period, a void rule and a last retention day, and a fixed sum of 50 per cent for withholding a retention without a valid notice.

October 2026|9 min
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Start with the matter in front of you.

A live claim, an emerging dispute or a difficult final account. Tell us what has happened, what is at stake and any approaching deadline.

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