Dealing with Contractor-Submitted
Construction Schedules that Cannot be Approved
Approved for 1.5 AIA LUs
Featuring
Chris Carson, PSP, CCM, PMP • Patrick C. Kelly, PSP, CPE
Too many projects start without an approved baseline schedule, and sometimes the schedule, or subsequent schedule updates, are never approved. This raises risks to both the contractor and the owner. However, if the risks to the owner of approving the schedule are greater than the benefits to the project of approving that schedule, the schedule should indeed be rejected. In the case of rejection, knowing what to do and how to deal with a project that does not have an approved schedule in place can be very important to the success of the project and protection of the two parties' interests. This webinar will address the very difficult choices that must be made when a schedule is submitted that is either substandard or does not meet the requirements of the specification.
This 90-minute interactive program will:
- Describe the role of the baseline schedule.
- Help owners understand their risks in approving “bad” or non-compliant construction schedules.
- Show contractors why approval of a less-than-sufficient schedule can increase their risks.
- Discuss common reasons why schedules fail to be approved.
- Review recommended project controls actions when schedules or schedule updates cannot be approved.
- Provide general project actions that can be taken to increase opportunities to approve schedules.
- Suggest scheduling specification language to help increase the ability of schedules to gain approval.
- Review as-built record-keeping and schedule log approaches to accurately track job progress.
- Recommend industry actions that can be taken to increase opportunities to approve schedules.
- And much, much more!
Who Will Benefit?
This webinar is a must if you’re a public or private owner, owner’s representative, construction manager, contracting officer, contractor, subcontractor or designer involved in contract administration.
Meet Your Expert Instructors:
| Christopher Carson, PSP, CCM, PMP
Chris Carson is Corporate Director of Project Controls for Alpha Corporation, providing standards, processes, and procedures for a team of schedulers, analysts, and project managers in multiple office locations, providing all types of scheduling, estimating, and dispute resolution schedule analysis. Chris has over 35 years of experience in scheduling and construction management of all types of building construction and infrastructure projects. He has provided seminars for hundreds of scheduling professionals in CPM scheduling methodologies and manages the in-house training program at Alpha. He is active in the PMI College of Scheduling as Managing Director of the SEI (Scheduling Excellence Initiative) project writing Best Practices and Guidelines for Scheduling and Schedule Impact Analysis, and the AACE, serving on the Claims & Dispute Resolution and Planning & Scheduling Committees, and is certified as a Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) by AACE. He is active in the Construction Management Association of America and has earned the Certified Construction Manager (CCM) designation and recently served on the nine-person team revising the Time Management Chapter of the CMAA’s CM Standards of Practice. He has presented numerous papers at AACE, DBIA and the PMI College of Scheduling. Patrick C. Kelly, PSP, CPE
Pat Kelly is a Senior Project Controls and Claims Consultant for Alpha Corporation. He has over 10 years’ experience in job cost accounting and analysis, construction management practices, conceptual estimating, project estimating and CPM scheduling and analysis. He has performed claim preparation and analysis on claims for delays, disruption and acceleration for site development projects, roads and bridges, power projects, commercial buildings, manufacturing facilities, governmental facilities and residential projects. He has performed real-time cost analyses for troubled projects and cost analyses for claimed damages on both commercial and residential projects. Mr. Kelly’s estimates have been utilized in both mediation and litigation environments. Mr. Kelly has testified during arbitration hearings held before the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Kelly has in-depth knowledge in the Project Controls arena that serves to buttress his claims and dispute resolution experience. Certified in Primavera Project Planner and proficient in Microsoft Project and Primavera SureTrak, Mr. Kelly has created and reviewed baseline and project update schedules for large transportation and new and renovated facilities projects as well as complex statewide facility assessments. Mr. Kelly additionally has experience in the creation and review of Time Impact Analyses for large municipal projects and is knowledgeable in the arena of Risk, including creation and update of Risk Registers and quantifying impact from potential Project Risks. Mr. Kelly also has experience in scheduling and evaluating management plans in multiple Project Delivery Methods, including Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, Private Public Partnership, Multiple Prime and CM at Risk. |
