A contractor flags a problem on site. An employer rejects a request for an extension of time. Each side reads the other’s reaction as resistance — as if the interests were fundamentally opposed.
Most of the time, they aren’t. The problem starts with an information gap: one party knows about an event from the moment it happens, the other learns about it later, through a report, a notice, or a claim. In that gap, assumptions fill in for facts — and a difference in information starts to look like a difference in interests.
This deep dive examines how that gap forms, why it turns technical problems into contractual risk, and what closes it before risk becomes commercial exposure — and, eventually, dispute.
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