You bid a $4.2 million mixed-use renovation in Bushwick on a tight nine-month schedule. Three months in, the owner stops processing permits, fires the architect, and adds two stories to the design. Your crews sit idle for eleven weeks. When you finally finish — four months late — you submit a $620,000 delay claim. The owner's lawyer responds with one sentence: “Please review Article 14.8 of the contract.” That's a no-damages-for-delay clause. And in Ne