Consideration of Claims Issues
in the Creation and Update of Schedules
Presented by:
J. Kimon Yiasemides and Zeynep Guven
Warner Construction Consultants, Inc.
Determining the impact of delays on a construction project all too often only is performed in the retrospective. Full consideration of claims issues while updating the project schedule, and even as early as during the creation of the baseline schedule, should be given for many reasons. Substandard or inadequate schedule updates can severely hinder the development of delay claims and the resolution of disputes. To amplify the power of your schedule as a claims support tool, there are certain considerations that should be taken into account in developing the baseline and updating the schedule.
This webinar discusses the aspects to consider, and the best practices to implement, so that the project schedule can serve as both a claims-support tool and a claims-avoidance tool. These considerations are important from the project owner’s perspective, as well as the contractor’s.
This information-packed webinar will help you:
- Understand the importance of, and the best practices in, implementing supportive aspects of later-occurring claims issues when developing a baseline schedule
- Update your monthly schedules so that claims are more defensible
- Demonstrate an impact to your schedule through the use of monthly updates
- Properly use narratives and fragnets in monthly updates
- Navigate other strategic practices and considerations involved
- And much, much more!
Watch this webinar to learn the fundamentals of these important scheduling practices. You will leave this event knowing how not to get stuck on an impacted project without a way to properly demonstrate that impact.
Who Will Benefit?
This webinar is a must if you’re a public or private owner, construction manager, contractor, subcontractor, scheduler, consultant, architect, or engineer involved in construction project management or administration. Gain key insights from our knowledgeable experts about how to create and review schedules on active projects from the perspective of managing risks in the face of delays, acceleration, and recovery efforts.
Meet Your Presenters:
Zeynep Guven, a consultant for Warner Construction Consultants Inc., 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.
Her forensic schedule analysis experience includes schedule comparisons, development of daily specific as-built schedules, documentation review, issue analysis, calculation, and assignment of responsibility for delay. Her onsite consulting experience includes the preparation of monthly schedule updates and providing time impact analyses on the $80-million Arlington Services Center Project built for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. She also has prepared monthly schedule and invoice reports for the $260-million 11th Street Bridge design-build project. She is proficient in the use of Primavera P3, P6, Primavera Contract Manager, HCSS Estimating Software, and MS Office.
J. Kimon Yiasemides serves as an executive consultant for Warner Construction Consultants Inc., providing expertise in construction management, Critical Path Method scheduling, and dispute-resolution services for the construction industry. He is a graduate of both the University of Maryland School of Law and the University of Florida School of Building Construction. 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. He has been directly involved in the management of both public- and private-sector work, including commercial, educational, residential, and multi-story construction projects. Additionally, he has worked as a project scheduler, claims consultant, and analyst for expert witness services.
His consulting experience includes projects both domestic and international, including: highways, bridges and tenant projects; office buildings; schools; condominiums; electrical power plants; transit projects; warehouses; and military bases. He also has assisted legal counsel in preparation for public trials, both public and private arbitration hearings, as well as preparation for expert and lay witness testimony in depositions. He has authored and published many articles, as well as presented seminars addressing construction project controls, best practices in scheduling, and dispute-resolution methods for construction claims.
