Two Comprehensive Approaches for Measuring Delay

Presented by:
John Crane, PSP, CFCC
Trauner Consulting Services, Inc.

Construction delays and project impacts associated with them (financial or otherwise) can sink a project if not resolved in a timely fashion. The industry continues to coalesce around a couple of methods for 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 and when to use each type of delay analysis. Contract language supporting these methods will be reviewed and discussed.

This informative 90-minute program will help attendees:

• Examine critical path scheduling.
  
• Review different types of schedule delay analysis methods and why these two 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 contemporaneous schedule analysis.
  
• 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!

Who Will Benefit?

This presentation is a must if you’re a contractor, public or private owner, subcontractor, construction manager, owner’s representative, architect, or other design professional providing project oversight services. The program also can benefit the attorneys who represent these parties in disputes.

Meet Your Presenter:

John Crane, PSP, CFCC is a Director with Trauner Consulting Services, Inc. in Orlando, FL, and has been with Trauner since 2001. He received his B.S. in Civil/Environmental Engineering from West Virginia University in 1995. John’s experience includes scheduling, project management, and estimating while working for general contractors and as an independent construction manager. As a Director with Trauner, John is responsible for claims avoidance, scheduling, and claims resolution work for private, municipal, and federal construction projects and clients. Claims avoidance and resolution work includes: contact document review, schedule review, determination of delays, entitlement, liabilities, damages, oral and written presentation of findings, and mediation and litigation support. John is a certified instructor for the National Highways Institute and has presented seminars on CPM Scheduling and Claims Handling and Avoidance. John has also presented seminars for National Business Institute on Construction Scheduling and for Lorman Education Services on Construction Project Management and Change Orders. In addition, John is a certified Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP). John has testified as an expert witness on delays.