1. Introduction -- 2. Time in contracts -- 3. Damages for late completion -- 4. Liquidated damages and penalties -- 5. Prevention -- 6. Legal construction of liquidated damages clauses -- 7. Effects of determination -- 8. Problems with sectional completion -- 9. Application to sub-contractors -- 10. Recovery of liquidated damages -- 11. Defences/challenges to liquidated damages -- 12. Extensions of time -- 13. Relevant events -- 14. Causation and concurrency -- 15. Programmes, method statements and best endeavours -- 16. Delay analysis -- 17. Building forms -- 18. Civil engineering forms -- 19. Process and plant forms -- 20. FIDIC conditions of contract 1999