Contractually, I would advise you to raise these ASAP as early warnings. Why ?
Because by the words of the contract, that is what they are ! And if, as a Contractor, you don't give an early warning as soon as you become aware of it, then it might reduce the assessment of any resulting compensation event.
The argument against this is that it will 'flood' the early warning process and the project participants will not be able to see the wood from the trees ... therefore you 'should' have a separate early warning & TQ/RFI process. This can be overcome by categorising early warnings : as well as urgent & needs immediate attention; can wait till next formal ew / risk reduction meeting etc; one of these categories is TQs/RFIs which are forwarded to the designers to deal with. If not dealt with, they get escalated. Regardless, from the Contractor's point of view, you have given the EW and can't suffer a reduced assessment.
Because by the words of the contract, that is what they are ! And if, as a Contractor, you don't give an early warning as soon as you become aware of it, then it might reduce the assessment of any resulting compensation event.
The argument against this is that it will 'flood' the early warning process and the project participants will not be able to see the wood from the trees ... therefore you 'should' have a separate early warning & TQ/RFI process. This can be overcome by categorising early warnings : as well as urgent & needs immediate attention; can wait till next formal ew / risk reduction meeting etc; one of these categories is TQs/RFIs which are forwarded to the designers to deal with. If not dealt with, they get escalated. Regardless, from the Contractor's point of view, you have given the EW and can't suffer a reduced assessment.