Sort of, when they could. In this case there were penalties for going longer on the project. Main problems ended up being weather (heavy rains) and lack of know

Sort of, when they could. In this case there were penalties for going longer on the project. Main problems ended up being weather (heavy rains) and lack of knowledge of the soil - many changes were made to the project because the contractor (C2HM) did not do a proper soil survey where they were going to be digging.