I would NOT agree that texts are a valid form of communication as they do not comply with clause 10.1 which requires every communication to be in a form that can be read, copied AND recorded. An email is however (just about) OK, although I would not recommend running a whole job on emails (if I was writing an early warning, I would not want to put the content in an email, but email a completed standard pro-forma that includes all the information about that early warning).
In the days of technology that we are, if they can get a phone signal to send you a text then they can use that same phone signal to send an email from that phone. I would instruct them to do this, and reject the principles that this is a compensation event. If they really want they could then take this to adjudication - which I suspect they wont knowing a) they are probably wrong, and b) there is not actually that much cost associated anyway.
This Contractor should be making sure they are complying with ways of improving flow of communication and mutual understanding - not putting blockers in the way.
In the days of technology that we are, if they can get a phone signal to send you a text then they can use that same phone signal to send an email from that phone. I would instruct them to do this, and reject the principles that this is a compensation event. If they really want they could then take this to adjudication - which I suspect they wont knowing a) they are probably wrong, and b) there is not actually that much cost associated anyway.
This Contractor should be making sure they are complying with ways of improving flow of communication and mutual understanding - not putting blockers in the way.