A Comprehensive Approach to Measuring Delay
Presented by:
Scott Lowe, Principal
Mark Nagata, PSP, Shareholder
Trauner Consulting Services, Inc.
Construction delays and the project impacts associated with them (financial or otherwise) can sink a project if not resolved quickly. The industry continues to coalesce around a basic approach to measuring delay. The TIA (time impact analysis) approach seems to be the only approach used to measure delays that have yet to occur, sometimes called "prospective delays."
Though less dominant, the industry seems to be moving in the direction of relying on the contemporaneous project schedules as a basis for measuring delays that have already happened. These two approaches, though identified separately in the literature, are entirely compatible and, when combined, provide a comprehensive, project-schedule-based approach to quantifying delays.
Listen to this information-packed session to learn how to use these powerful analytical approaches to timely identify and resolve delay issues on your projects. Contract language supporting these methods will be reviewed and discussed.
This informative 90-minute program will help you:
- Examine critical path scheduling
- Review different types of schedule delay analysis methods and why the TIA and contemporaneous approaches are so powerful
- Work through an example and learn how to implement a contemporaneous schedule analysis
- Use an example to learn how to implement a time impact analysis
- Understand how these two approaches can provide a comprehensive approach to construction delay analysis
- Discuss existing legal cases supporting the use of these approaches
- Review contract language to implement these practices
- Learn how to avoid disputes and resolve potential delay claims in the future without the need for litigation
- And much, much more!
Meet Your Presenters:
J. Scott Lowe, P.E., is a Principal with Trauner Consulting Services, Inc. His expertise lies in the areas of critical path method scheduling, construction claim preparation and evaluation, dispute resolution, technical document development, contract administration, and cost analysis. He has directed and performed virtually all types of analyses, including delay, productivity and efficiency, including cost and the determination of damages, on varied projects throughout the U.S. and abroad. On many occasions, he has provided expert testimony at deposition, arbitration, and trial.
Mark Nagata, PSP, is a Director, Shareholder with Trauner Consulting Services, Inc. His expertise lies in the areas of critical path method scheduling, construction claim preparation and evaluation, dispute resolution, technical document development, and cost analysis. He has performed virtually all types of analyses, including delay, productivity and efficiency, and cost and the determination of damages on varied projects throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Mark is also an award-winning speaker and conducts seminars throughout the country on the topics of construction scheduling, claims avoidance and resolution, project management, delays, acceleration, and inefficiency.
