CEM- 802: CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

PLANNING, SCHEDULING AND

CONTROL

Presented by
Engr. Zia Ud Din
Lecturer

Department of Construction Engineering and Managemnet

National University of Sciences and Technology,
H-12, Islamabad- Pakistan
Construction Delay
Claims

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DEFINITIONS

Delay: An event or a condition that results in

finishing the project later than stipulated in the
contract .

Claim: a request from one contracting party to

another party for additional compensation ,a time
extension , or both .

Note:
a claim is not always a negative action ,nor does
it automatically indicate a confrontation .
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Delay claims and
change order
A CO may be initiated at the request of the
Owner ,Contractor , Sub-Contractor.

They must submit a request for quotation

(RFQ) to initiate their CO , And this request
could be an owner decision or a what if
inquiry , the quotation may includes a cost
estimate and the impact on the schedule .

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 To minimize the number of COs Owners
should define the scope of the project and
select a competent designer .

Many projects suffer from scope-creep

syndrome , in which COs keep adding to
the project budget and put it at levels far
beyond what the owner originally planned.

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Reasons for delay claims

1- Differing site conditions

2- design errors or omissions

3- changes in Owners Requirements

4- Unusually adverse weather

5- Miscellaneous factors

6- Force Majeure

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Changes in owners
requirements

May constitute a change in the contract

and provide a foundation for Cos. Owners
are always encouraged to know exactly
what the want within their budgetary
limits.

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Force Majeure
(superior force)
In the context of construction projects, this term
usually involves three important elements :

1- Something that is superior, overwhelming, or

overpowering (i.e, can not be prevented)

2- Something that is unexpected or cannot be

reasonably anticipated or controlled.

3- Something that has a destructive or disruptive

effect on the construction process.

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Types of delays
resulting in claims

1- Excusable delay.

2- Non excusable delay.

3- Concurrent delays.

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Delay claims prevention
1- Baseline schedules that dont show logic.

2- baseline schedule with dates rather than logic.

3- Overuse of constrains.

4- Erasing footprints.

5- unrealistic baseline schedule.

6- schedule with logic errors.

7- skipping periodic updates.

8- lack of proper documentation.

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Communication and
documentation

Communication
means conveying information from one
party to other parties across the
organization

Documentation
means saving the information in an
organized manner for possible future
retrieval.

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 Communications and documentation must
both contain:

Clear information.

Provide the proper a mount oh details.

Be stored efficiently, so that the information

can be retrieved easily .

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We must document
these information
1- The project baseline schedule that the
owner accepted
2- Periodic schedule updates

3- Change orders

4- Job diary

5- Correspondence with the home office

6- Submittal records, such as shop drawings

and
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7- Records of any transmittals

8- Meeting minutes

9- Procurement records

10- Government records

11- Records of payment

12- Project managers daily log

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Logbook should include daily information
such as the following :

Weather condition: temperature, wind.

Work performance during that day.
The number of workers on-site.
Equipment on-site and its condition.
Any accidents that occurred on-site

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Methods of resolving
claims

Negotiation

The most direct method for resolving any type of

construction claim.

Requires certain skills that reduce the gap between

the negotiation parties.

The objective: is to reach a solution that might be

acceptable to both parties.

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 Mediation

When negotiation does not work, either because

of lack of trust or a lack of skills, mediation may
be an option.

The mediator may be an individual or a team.

Dispute review boards

The owner and the contractor select an

independent neutral panel with construction
experience when the contract is signed .
Rather than waiting until the end of project to
settle claims, (DRBs) resolve disputes as they arise.
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 Arbitration

It is usually a formal process performed by an

independent professional arbitrator.

Arbitration is voluntary.

Arbitration does not require the use of lawyers

Litigation
When none of the previous work and parties
can not reach a settlement, the complaining
party uses the other party in a court of law.
Construction litigation is usually complicated
lengthy, and expensive.
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Method of Schedule
Analysis

As- build schedule

As planned schedule

Comparison schedule

Accelerated schedule

Recovery schedule
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As-Built Schedule

The as-built schedule should reflect what

actually happened in the filed.
Activities are plotted by their real start and
real finish , disregarding any logic
Contain real budget and real resources

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As planned schedule

The as-planned schedule

describes the manners in which
the contractor in tended to built
the project.

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Comparison schedule

revised to incorporate any claimed delays .

for delay claim the contractor submits two

schedules.

without the causative factors

with the causative factors

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Accelerated schedule

Submitted by the contractor.

The project can finish by the

contractor finish date.

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