It a was brilliant idea; it just didn’t work. Brilliant all the same. It was an attempt to take the adjudicator’s decisions on appeal. ISG Construction Ltd was awarded a £29m design and build office block in Lombard Street, London EC3. The design, supply and installation of the unitised curtain walling and stone cladding was subcontracted to English Architectural Glazing Ltd (EAG). Its contract said it would commence works on site on 20 March 2017 and finish on 11 September 2017. By coincidence the finish date became the eventual start date, and over a year later the subcontract was all but done. A highly promising circumstance for a dispute – and indeed, ISG said that EAG was not entitled to all that extension of time, and claimed £3,183,000 compensation. Big money.

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