Regardless of who causes the delays or who consumes the total float, construction case law supports the principle that total float shall be available to all parties and should not belong to any one party on a project. During the 1970s and 1980s, as noted by Wickwire et al., the courts recognized total float time clearly as “an expiring resource available to all parties involving in the project” . Almost all significant public procurements include contract clauses designating that float not be used for the exclusive benefit of any one party involved in the project. As a consequence of the current “first come, first served” practice and the Common Law’s Proximate Cause principle, the parties who delay the project in later stages are more likely to be held responsible for delays which extend the project completion time.