Construction claims · Nepal
Claims that hold.
CDRC prepares, defends and resolves construction claims on Nepal's largest infrastructure projects — hydropower, expressways, tunnels and airports — through to full arbitration support.
Acting for contractors and developers including
Three points where a project needs us.
Engineers, contract specialists and advocates on the same file — so the technical case and the legal case are built together.
Before the dispute
Contract administration
Obligations and risk, correspondence, and the contractual notices that decide whether a claim survives later.
How we support live projectsWhen time and cost move
Delay, quantum and claims
Programme impact and cause-and-effect mapping, extension of time, prolongation, variations and price adjustment — quantified from the record.
How a claim is builtWhen it goes to a forum
Full arbitration support
Amicable settlement and dispute boards through to full arbitration — notice and impact analysis, claim drafting, defences and rejoinders, with delay expert, quantum expert and expert witness evidence.
How we appear
$1.5 billion
in dispute value managed, across more than two hundred matters, under FIDIC, PPMO, EPC and ICB — with an average success rate of 60 to 70 per cent.
The success rate reflects the consistency of the work rather than a promise of outcome. Not every case goes as expected, and some outcomes sit beyond any consultant's control.
Four divisions, one file.
Claims, delay and quantum, legal, and administration — led by engineers who have been on site and advocates who have been in the hearing.
Insights
Physical damage, prevention and the supply chain each travel a different contractual route.
Roshan Bhatta and Sanjeev Koirala
A notice provision that is procedural in form can extinguish a substantive right.
Roshan Bhatta and Manasvi Koirala
The Engineer rejects an EOT because the activity “had float”. The Contractor says the float was its own.
Sanjeev Koirala and Bishan Subedi
Send us the contract and the concern.
We will tell you what the record supports before you commit to a position.