Common use of No Damage for Delay Clause in Contracts

No Damage for Delay. The Owner shall have the right to defer the beginning or to suspend the whole or any part of the work herein contracted to be done whenever, in the opinion of the Owner, it may be necessary or expedient for the Owner to do so. And, if the Consultant is delayed in the completion of the work by act, neglect, or default of the Owner, or any other Consultant or Contractor employed by the Owner upon the work or by changes ordered in the work, or by strikes, lockouts, fire, unusual delay by common carriers, unavoidable casualties, or any case beyond the Consultant’s control, or by any cause which the Owner shall decide to justify the delay, then for all such delays and suspensions the Consultant shall be allowed one day additional to the time herein stated for each and every day of such delay so caused in the completion of the work, the same to be determined by the Owner, and a similar allowance of extra time would be made for such other delays as the Owner may find to have been caused by the Owner. No such extension shall be made prior to the beginning of such delay, and a written request for additional time shall be filed with the Owner.