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Paul Heming: Hello and welcome to episode 59 of own the build with me, Paul Heming. Today’s episode, the title of it is quite interesting, I think it’s something that I spent a lot of time pondering and trying to answer the question when I was a QS commercial manager back in the day. So it’s how do you prove delay on your construction project. And like I say it is a task that on the last project I worked on actually Battersea Power Station it was a thankless task, to be honest with you on that one and it was a project where this topic is very close to my heart. It’s a really difficult topic so I’m pleased to welcome onto the show a genuine expert, Michael Downes, who is a solicitor/construction expert at Gordons LLP, a law firm from Yorkshire. He’s going to help us solve the question. So welcome to the show, Michael. How you doing?
Michael Downes: I’m not too bad, Paul. How are you?
Paul Heming: I’m good mate. I’m good. I’m feeling pretty good about this episode apart from one nagging issue that I have in the back of my mind, so I know that you’re in Yorkshire, Michael but I know that you’re not from Yorkshire originally, are you?
Michael Downes: No, I’m originally from Birmingham.
Paul Heming: Yeah, and North Birmingham as well as [Inaudible 00:01:46]
Michael Downes: Absolutely. I was wondering how long it would be before you bought this up into the podcast but I thought we’d get past a couple of minutes at least.
Paul Heming: Straight to it. I don’t talk about football often on this and that’s largely because I’m a Birmingham City fan and we don’t talk about football because we’re Birmingham fans there’s not much to brag about, but I’ve gone against everything that I stand for her by invited you onto the show an Aston Villa fan, Liam would be absolutely distraught with all this as am I but you bet this is going to be good, Michael, I’m sure
Michael Downes: Absolutely. I was wondering how long it would be before you bought this up into the podcast but I thought we’d get past a couple of minutes at least.
Paul Heming: Straight to it. I don’t talk about football often on this and that’s largely because I’m a Birmingham City fan and we don’t talk about football because we’re Birmingham fans there’s not much to brag about, but I’ve gone against everything that I stand for her by invited you onto the show an Aston Villa fan, Liam would be absolutely distraught with all this as am I but you bet this is going to be good, Michael, I’m sure
Michael Downes: Absolutely. I was wondering how long it would be before you bought this up into the podcast but I thought we’d get past a couple of minutes at least.
Paul Heming: Straight to it. I don’t talk about football often on this and that’s largely because I’m a Birmingham City fan and we don’t talk about football because we’re Birmingham fans there’s not much to brag about, but I’ve gone against everything that I stand for her by invited you onto the show an Aston Villa fan, Liam would be absolutely distraught with all this as am I but you bet this is going to be good, Michael, I’m sure
Michael Downes: Absolutely. I was wondering how long it would be before you bought this up into the podcast but I thought we’d get past a couple of minutes at least.
Paul Heming: Straight to it. I don’t talk about football often on this and that’s largely because I’m a Birmingham City fan and we don’t talk about football because we’re Birmingham fans there’s not much to brag about, but I’ve gone against everything that I stand for her by invited you onto the show an Aston Villa fan, Liam would be absolutely distraught with all this as am I but you bet this is going to be good, Michael, I’m sure