Best Practices for Delay Claim Preparation, Defense and Avoidance - 5-Part Recorded Webinar Series 2020

No one starts a project thinking a delay claim will be part of the construction process, but unplanned events and unforeseen conditions happen which impact and threaten the project’s completion.  When that situation does arise, you want to be prepared to timely address and resolve these issues.  This webinar series is designed to provide practical guidelines and best practice approaches to prepare for and execute the preparation, review and resolution of construction delay claims when they do occur. These sessions were recorded May-August 2020.

Claims Issues and Time Extensions in Construction Schedules PLUS Dealing with Concurrent Delay - The Owner's Newest Defense

The schedule is a great tool for both avoiding and supporting claims.  When jobs fall behind, the parties need to sort out the various causes of delay to determine if the contractor is entitled to a time extension, will need to accelerate, or will be on the hook for liquidated damages.  These two very important on-demand training sessions presented by construction scheduling experts and consultants are for anyone who needs to submit or review a schedule update, or is involved in sorting through the various issues of concurrency in assessing project delays. 

Schedule Delay Analysis: Forensic Methods and Practical Applications

Construction delays can have significant impact on the cost of performance for both the contractor and owner. Who ultimately pays for these delays is highly dependent upon a forensic schedule analysis to determine both responsibility and duration of each delay encountered.

Listen in on this 4-part series presented by today’s leading experts on the subject to learn what you should be doing if anticipating a claim on an existing project or are already involved in developing or negotiating a delay claim. Gain control of schedule delay strategy and methods today!

Successful Time Extensions and Acceleration Claims: 3-Part Series w/Recovery Schedules Bonus Download

Construction delay is costly — pure and simple. Not so simple is fighting the delay battles, and the legal complexities that could mean the difference between recovering costs or just a no-cost time extension.

Concurrent and pacing delays, no-damage-for-delay clauses, constructive vs. voluntary acceleration, recovery schedules, and how to successfully support or defend a schedule impact claim are the subjects of this exclusive three-part series on construction delays.

This three-part program will help you to successfully manage time-risk on your projects and review the importance of critical path method (CPM) schedule analysis to prove causation and actual time impact. 

Legal Implications of the Construction Schedule

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.

Early Completion Schedules - a Form of Contingency Bidding

The purpose of this recorded presentation is to set forth the background concerning a contractor’s right to complete work early and examine the contractor’s right to seek an equitable adjustment should their early completion be delayed by action of the owner. Additionally, this recorded webinar provides a brief overview of 12 different ways owners can defend against claims oriented early completion schedules.

Schedule Delay Analysis — Choosing a Method and Why They Differ

What has not been widely discussed or written about is what factors should go into the decision-making process when choosing a delay analysis method for a particular project or a specific claim. This presentation addresses just that.

Schedule Delay Analysis Modeled Methods — Additive & Subtractive

This presentation focuses on those methodologies referred to in the industry as "modeled" methods. It will explore the performance of a credible delay analysis and identify many of the strengths and pitfalls of these methodologies.

Schedule Delay Analysis — Observational Methods — Static & Dynamic Logic

When choosing schedule delay analysis method there are a number of technical, practical and legal considerations that a delay analyst makes. This presentation focuses on those methodologies referred to in the industry as "observational" methods. It will explore the performance of a credible delay analysis and identify many of the strengths and pitfalls of these methodologies.

Acceleration and Mitigation of Project Delays: Analysis, Costs and Owner/Contractor Responsibilities

Attorneys Mike Harris and Brian Dugdale team up to explain the often-overlooked concept of mitigating delays, which the contractor is obligated to do notwithstanding the causes. The fine line between mitigating and acceleration is explained, along with the various types of acceleration, plus the necessary documentation and proof to support and price an acceleration claim.

Winning Construction Delay Claims: 2 Successful Approaches

There are two approaches for measuring delay, though identified separately in the construction claims 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.

CPM Schedule Review & Analysis

The proof for damages and time recovery of project delays and impact relies almost exclusively on the use of CPM schedules to show both the causes and extent of the delays incurred. Years of case decisions and industry dialogue have resulted in a number of best practices and approaches, both in the use of schedules during the job and for subsequent use in delay-claim support. Consultant, expert and attorney John Livengood explains the various considerations for use of CPM schedules during the course of a project and in the preparation of a delay analysis.

Proving and Pricing Subcontractor Delay Claims

™Subcontractors, like general contractors, are frequently impacted by events and actions beyond their control. In addition to the typical risks involved in construction, subcontractors face other problems also. Subcontractors routinely deal with four sets of problems on every construction project. These problems are caused by the general contractor, the owner, other subcontractors, as well as third parties or force majeure events.

Construction Scheduling: Games People Play

This exclusive three-part webinar identifies more than 15 scheduling games and offers more than 45 suggested defenses to help prevent schedule gamesmanship.  Some suggested defenses involve changes to contract document language and thus need to be implemented during the design phase. Other suggested defenses are pragmatic in nature and can be implemented on a daily basis by a knowledgeable construction management team even in the absence of specification language.

Delay Anomalies: Concurrent Delay, Pacing & Ghost Schedules

The presentation also addresses the practical impact of a pacing delay, both to the project as well as to a contractor's delay claim. Thus, owners and contractors often find themselves at odds with one another over the right to pacing delay and the practical effect of pacing delays in delay claim situations. This webinar is intended to provide a better understanding of pacing delays and how they ought to be handled.

Forensic Schedule Analysis & Discretionary Logic

This recorded webinar highlights several applications and refinements of existing forensic delay methodologies, particularly As-Planned vs. As-Built, Contemporary Period Analysis and Collapsed As-Built, which can assist in identifying the as-built critical path and delay responsibility in projects with significant amounts of discretionary logic.

Forensic Schedule Analysis on Risk-Adjusted Schedules

It is likely that risk-adjusted schedules will expand beyond their current uses and become more common in buildings and infrastructure construction, as time and cost Click here to pressure from owners increases. As this happens, what will be the impact on Forensic Schedule Analysis (FSA), as more risk-adjusted schedules form the basis of delay claims?

Schedule Analysis Methods & Strategy: Key to Successful Construction Delay Claim - 3-part Series

This information-packed, three-part recorded webinar series has been designed to help those involved in the construction process understand the various factors that can affect schedule delay analysis. This includes advanced topics (such as, or including) discretionary logic, out-of-sequence work, concurrent delay, resource constraints, variable float, risk analysis and risk-adjusted schedules. Join our knowledgeable scheduling experts to learn how various scheduling techniques can help you better manage projects, as well as facilitate the delay claim resolution process.

Recovery Schedules-The Construction Acceleration Hot Potato: Practical and Legal Considerations

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!

Forensic Schedule Analysis - Examples and Case Studies

This webinar will teach you how to perform the analysis of project delays that are needed to determine the cause and duration of the critical delays you experienced. The program focuses on delays that already have occurred on your project and are unlikely to be recovered through acceleration. The presentation draws upon AACE International's Recommended Practice for Forensic Schedule Analysis as its foundation. But the webinar is loaded with practical examples and real case studies to show simple and successful approaches to the quantification of delays.

Weather Planning on Construction Projects: Addressing Delays and Time Extensions

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.