Consideration of Claims Issues
in the Creation and Update of Schedules

Presented by:
J. Kimon Yiasemides and Zeynep Guven
Warner Construction Consultants, Inc.

This webinar is designed to help construction professionals improve the ability of their project schedules to serve as “claims-support tools” or “claims-avoidance tools.” The program is suited for a wide variety of professionals within the construction community, including construction managers, contractors, subcontractors, public and private owners, schedulers, consultants, architects, and engineers who are involved in construction project management or administration.

The program will help attendees do the following:

• Understand the importance of, and the best practices in, implementing supportive aspects of later-occurring claims issues when developing a baseline schedule.
• Update monthly schedules so that claims are more defensible.
• Demonstrate an impact to a schedule through the use of monthly updates.
• Properly use narratives and fragnets in monthly updates.
• Navigate other strategic practices and considerations.

Meet Your Presenters:

Zeynep Guven, a consultant for Warner, has more than five years of experience in the construction industry. Her prior construction experience includes responsibilities as a field engineer, estimator, and scheduler. As a consultant, she has prepared, monitored, and updated resource- and cost-loaded schedules, reviewed contractor schedule submittals for constructability and conformance with contract requirements, prepared schedule narratives and reports, and created or reviewed contemporaneous time-impact analyses and requests for time extensions.

J. Kimon Yiasemides serves as an executive consultant for Warner, providing expertise in construction management, Critical Path Method scheduling and dispute-resolution services for the construction industry. He has more than 17 years of work experience in the construction industry, including six years of general contracting and construction management with Centex Construction Group, where he provided construction management services on several award-winning projects.