Count the delay. Price it.
Turn days behind on the critical path into a dollar exposure, then see how much of it your recovery plan actually claws back.
A schedule delay is the number of days critical-path completion has slipped past the plan. Its cost is delay days multiplied by the daily cost of being late (extended overhead and general conditions, plus any liquidated damages). An excusable delay (owner-caused or unusual weather) may earn a time extension; a non-excusable one usually carries the cost.
Your numbers
18 days of exposure remain after recovery
Home-office overhead (Eichleay).
When an owner-caused delay puts the job on standby, your head office keeps running. The federal Eichleay formula recovers that unabsorbed overhead in three steps.
Eichleay is the federal remedy for unabsorbed home-office overhead. It requires a delay that is solely owner or government caused with no concurrent delay. Use the tree below to check that.
Is your delay recoverable?
Time relief and money follow different tests. Answer three questions and see where your delay lands.
A time extension plus delay damages, including Eichleay home-office overhead, are recoverable.
Educational only. The excusable / compensable / concurrent framing follows recognized delay-analysis practice; it sizes and classifies the exposure, it does not adjudicate entitlement.
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Download the delay and EOT log (XLSX)Documenting the delay is the hard part. POD does it as it happens.
A delay claim lives on a clear record of what slipped, when, and why. POD reads the daily reports and schedules your team already produces and keeps that timeline current, so the cause and the day count are captured, not reconstructed later.
Questions & answers
A delay is the number of days the critical-path completion has slipped past the planned completion. Its cost is those delay days multiplied by the daily cost of being late, which includes extended overhead and any liquidated damages.
Method & sources
Delay is measured on the critical path as forecast completion minus planned completion. The daily cost of delay is your own extended overhead and general conditions, plus any liquidated damages. The excusable, compensable and concurrent framing follows recognized delay-analysis practice — this tool sizes the exposure, it does not adjudicate entitlement.
Sources: AACE International RP 29R-03 (Forensic Schedule Analysis) · Society of Construction Law Delay & Disruption Protocol
Methodology reviewed by the Plan of Day construction team · July 2026
We size the exposure; the entitlement is still your argument.
Track delays on your own project.
POD builds the delay and recovery record as the job runs, from the daily reports your team already files, so the cause, the days, and the mitigation are documented in real time rather than reconstructed under a claim deadline.
Last updated: July 2026