Advanced Construction Scheduling Risk Topics 2012
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Develop Your Organization's Expertise in Legal and Administrative Issues of Construction Schedules - Reduce Risks, Avoid Claims, Address Time & Cost Recovery for Construction Delays

If you're involved in contract administration, project management or construction management, whether as an owner, contractor, subcontractor, consultant or attorney, you want to be conversant with the essential strategies and techniques provided this year by our industry experts in these three exclusive webinars:

1. Legal Implications of the Construction Schedule
   
2. Recovery Schedules - The Construction Industry Hot Potato
   
3. Dealing with Non-Approved Contractor Schedules

Special Bonus CD: In addition, you will receive the just-presented webinar on:

4. Weather Planning and Strategies in Construction Schedules - Dealing
   with Sandy (recorded December 19, 2012).

In total, your order today provides all four current educational events for 63% off the price if all four webinar CDs were ordered individually!

Construction Schedules - Tool for Planning, Measuring Progress and Determining Time Extensions

Construction schedules are required on most major construction projects for the purpose of understanding the contractor's plan to complete the project on time, for comparing progress, for making payments and for determining impact on project completion due to change orders, delays and other impacts incurred during construction. Contractors who prepare schedules walk a fine line between committing themselves to production rates and sequence of work versus allowing themselves flexibility for managing risks of, and adapting to, all the variables that affect the day-to-day schedule of running a project, including weather, subcontractor performance, material and supply availability, strikes and equipment performance.

It's not uncommon to find the various roles of the schedule to conflict, such as the need to base payments on the original schedule versus the need for the contractor to be able to make changes to the schedule to try alternate methods or sequences of construction. This set of four webinars looks at the various issues and conflicts that frequently arise, how to prepare for them and how to handle them. Bring yourself up-to-date or use the CDs as weekly training and review material for your staff.

Four Expert-Led Sessions - The Details

Recovery Schedules - The Construction Industry Hot Potato
Michael Harris, PE, JD, Warner Construction Consultants, Inc. and Chris Burke, JD, Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP

When a construction project falls behind schedule, the owner may require the contractor to submit a recovery schedule. Issues arise over whether the recovery schedule is realistic, what the direct and indirect costs will be, who should pick up the cost, and frequently, whether the need for a recovery schedule actually exists in the first place! Contractors preparing a recovery schedule need to understand the various impacts in addition to possible overtime, on their own labor and equipment resources, as well as their subcontractors. Impact costs such as crowding, stacking of trades, and greater rework requirements are not uncommon. Moreover, costs and time savings are usually best planned by working with resource-loaded CPM schedules to focus only on those activities that are most likely to reduce the remaining contract duration, i.e., activities on the critical path. Owners, their representatives and construction managers need to be just as wary of the acceleration, as they may very well be footing the bill!

This 90-minute program covers recovery schedule issues from A-to-Z, including best practices in developing the schedule, executing and monitoring the schedule, and the various legal considerations that ultimately determine who will be responsible for the costs. Click here for complete outline.

Dealing with Contractor-Submitted Construction Schedules that Cannot be Approved
Chris Carson, PSP, CCM, PMP • Patrick C. Kelly, PSP, CPE, Alpha Corporation

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 program addresses 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. Click here for complete outline.

Legal Implications of the Construction Schedule: Historical Perspective and Recent Case Law
John C. Livengood, CFCC PSP, Patrick M. Kelly, PSP, ARCADIS

Construction managers, program and project managers, contractors, owners, and planning and scheduling professionals in the construction industry work with schedules every day. Yet what do they know about the legal implications of a schedule's creation, approval, acceptance, management, modification and updating? Contract schedule clauses, when they exist, provide a starting point, declaring the purpose of the schedule and how it is to be used and maintained on the job, and its use as a tool for determining time-related changes or impacts. Over the years, a body of case law has evolved, giving shape to general requirements for the creation and subsequent role of schedules in proving or defending claims for delays, acceleration, impact and lost productivity.

Join John Livengood and Patrick Kelly, two seasoned experts in construction scheduling, as they walk you through the varying challenges facing schedule-related claims. John and Patrick, citing specific cases to illustrate various construction schedule scenarios, discuss how the courts and boards of contract appeals have ruled, sometimes with conflicting outcomes. Click here for the complete outline.

Weather Planning on Construction Projects: Addressing Delays and Time Extensions
J. Scott Lowe, P.E., Trauner Consulting Services, Inc.

Estimates of the economic losses caused by Hurricane Sandy recently reached $50 billion after experts assessed the costs of severe property damage, shut-down subways and power outages. Hurricane Sandy's recent devastation along much of the East Coast is a reminder of the significant factor weather can contribute to the planning and execution of a construction project.  Weather conditions can wreak havoc on project schedules and the calculation of time extensions. Preparing and scheduling your projects for weather conditions can help you avoid, or at least minimize, delay claims. Click here for the complete outline.

Added Benefit:  In-house training tool:  Train your entire staff for one low price!  Gather around the conference room table and listen to the industry experts, then discuss how it pertains to your particular company.