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Calculate the completion date and deadlines

Enter the site handover date and the duration to see the completion date, the new date with extensions, days late, the earliest final acceptance and a payment's deadlines. No sign-up.

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Duration and dates

Take the dates from your contract and the minutes. The more optional fields you fill, the more the result shows.

Work duration

The duration runs from this date.

days

The contract duration, in calendar days.

Approved extensions

Enter each approved extension on its own row.

OptionalFill these in to see the delay, the final acceptance and a payment's deadlines.

The date the provisional acceptance minutes count from.

months

12 months unless the contract says otherwise (General Specification art. 42).

The day the report, signed by the contractor, reached the administration.

days

15 days unless the contract writes another period (Model Contract 11.2).

See the dates

Enter the site handover date and the duration, or try the sample data.

Method

How the dates are worked out

The completion date follows settled administrative practice; the other periods follow the general rule of the Code of Obligations. The calculator keeps the two rules apart.

Completion date

End = site handover + duration − 1 + approved extensions

The handover day is the first day of the duration. A 600-day work handed over on 15.04.2011 ends on 04.12.2012, for example, and on 10.12.2012 with a 6-day extension (a Public Works Board decision).

Periods

The handover day counts
The duration runs from the site handover date, and that day counts too (Model Contract 9.2). The legislation does not spell out the counting; this is the settled practice of administrations and the Public Works Board.
Extensions
Approved extension days are added to the completion date as calendar days.
Work programme in 15 days
The contractor hands in the work programme for approval within 15 days of the site handover (Model Contract 12.1).
Payment 30 + 30 + 15 days
A payment report is approved within 30 days of being handed in, accrued within the next 30 days and paid within 15. The contract may write another payment period instead of 15 days (Model Contract 11.2).
Final acceptance
The time between provisional and final acceptance is the guarantee period; unless the contract says otherwise it cannot be under 12 months. It runs from the date the provisional acceptance counts from (General Specification art. 42).
Counting the other periods
For the other periods set in days, the first day does not count (Turkish Code of Obligations art. 92; Law No. 4734 art. 64). When months are added and the target month has no such day, its last day is taken. Public holidays are not taken into account.

What this tool does not cover

It does not take public holidays, non-working seasons or interim deadlines in the work programme into account. Partial acceptance, the time owed for a work increase and the delay penalty amount are outside its scope; use the delay penalty tool for the penalty.

Basis: Model Construction Contract art. 9.2, 11.2 and 12.1; General Specification for Construction Works art. 42; Turkish Code of Obligations art. 92; Public Works Board decisions. For information only.

Frequently asked

About work duration

Add the duration to the site handover date and take one day off, because the handover day is the first day of the duration. A 600-day work handed over on 15.04.2011 ends on 04.12.2012. This is the settled practice seen in Public Works Board decisions too.

Approved extension days are added to the completion date as calendar days. A work due to end on 04.12.2012 with a 6-day extension ends on 10.12.2012.

The contractor prepares the work programme and hands it in for approval within 15 days of the site handover (Model Contract 12.1). The tool counts this period without the handover day.

A payment report is approved at the latest within 30 days of being handed in, accrued within 30 days of approval and paid within 15 days (Model Contract 11.2). If the contract writes another payment period instead of 15 days, that period applies.

Once the guarantee period is over. It is the time between provisional and final acceptance; unless the contract says otherwise it cannot be under 12 months, and it runs from the date the provisional acceptance counts from. If the defects found at provisional acceptance are not fixed in the time given, it runs from the date the provisional acceptance minutes are approved (General Specification art. 42).

The tool does not take public holidays into account; the date it shows is the last day on the calendar. If that day is a holiday, check your contract and the administration's practice.

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