Competitive markets, accelerated delivery schedules and tight budgets demand innovative and creative project delivery strategies. As a result, construction project schedules have grown in complexity and importance. This course identifies and explains industry trends that now govern the application of complex CPM Scheduling techniques. The course will identify and explain specific standard of care guidelines that are expected of the parties to the construction contract. It will discuss and analyze the gamesmanship utilized by scheduling experts that have become the custom and practice within the construction industry.

This course offers practical guidelines and useful checklists for schedule reviews and time extension negotiations. It discusses the contractual framework of CPM schedules and how project risks are allocated and managed in a construction schedule. It reviews the various types of scheduling delays, the consequences of those delays, alternatives for recovery and the methods used to calculate delay damages. The course also explores the legal remedies available to owners and builders in addressing scheduling delays.

 

Course Topics Include:

• CPM scheduling – an overview of industry trends
• Legal significance of the project schedule
• Owner & Contractor rights and obligations in scheduling
• A brief review of CPM scheduling basics
• Guidelines for effective project schedule specifications
• Understanding preferential and mandatory logic
• Distinguishing between delay and disruption
• Identifying float sequestration
• Calendar considerations
• The right to finish early vs. early completion claims
• Importance, use and ownership of float
• Identifying Owner and Third Party impacts to the construction schedule
• How to calculate project delay
• Understanding non-excusable, excusable, compensable and concurrent delays
• Standards of proof for time extension requests
• How to calculate delay damages
• Enforcement of liquidated damages & bonus clauses
• Guidelines for handling scheduling defaults