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Disputes are one of the largest sources of waste in construction. Avoiding them is sustainability work, and it is the work HICE does. The numbers are stark. Independent reporting places the average construction dispute in the tens of millions of dollars and many months to resolve, with sums in dispute averaging around a third of contract value across thousands of projects. Construction is also among the least productive of the major sectors; closing the gap could add an estimated US$1.6 trillion a year to global output.
The causes are rarely exotic. They are failures of administration — contracts not run as written, notices and claims mishandled, obligations misunderstood.
Disputes cost more than money. Delay, rework, demobilisation and abandoned work all carry an embodied-carbon and resource cost. By making notices timely, records complete and entitlements clear, the HICE work helps fewer matters escalate — and resolves sooner those that do.
HICE anchors what it claims to published data and to outcomes it can defend: disputes avoided, time preserved, waste reduced. It does not make carbon claims it cannot substantiate. This work supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on infrastructure (9), responsible production (12) and strong institutions (16).
Adopted by HICE management on 15 June 2026.
