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International Journal of Project Management Volume 26, Issue 2 , February 2008, Pages 174-184 doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2007.05.002 | How to Cite or Link Using DOI Copyright ? 2007 Elsevier Ltd and IPMA All rights reserved. Permissions Reprints Understanding time delay disputes in construction contracts K.C. Iyer a, , , N.B. Chaphalkar b, and G.A. Joshi c, a Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110 016, India b Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110 016, India c Punj Lloyd Limited, Punj Lloyd House, 17-18 Nehru Place, New Delhi 110 019, India Received 6 September 2006; revised 18 February 2007; accepted 1 May 2007. Available online 27 July 2007. Abstract Most of the construction projects are executed through contracts which are generally not easy to comprehend even by professionals. With advancement in technology and mammoth requirement of infrastructure in developing countries like India, there has been increase in size and complexities in the nature of projects. This gives rise to further ambiguities in the prevailing contract forms eventually making contract forms more complex and difficult and causing adversarial impacts such as increase in number and frequency of claims and disputes besides time and cost overruns. To overcome the worsening scenario, it is essential to develop a system that can assist the contract administrators to understand and evaluate worth of their claims prior to taking it to litigation. An attempt has been made to devise a rule-based expert system to achieve this objective with a limited scope of disputes arising out of Time Delay and Extension in Indian Construction Contracts. Keywords: Construction contracts; Construction claims; Dispute resolution; Expert system; Contract administration Article Outline 1. Introduction 2. Literature survey 3. Expert system 4. Expert system for settlement of disputes in indian construction 5. Development of