Course Description
Protect your project - understand the benefits and risks of the construction schedule.
Efficiently plan and construct your next project - join us for this seminar and learn the special details of scheduling. You will get an understanding of contract provisions, scheduling methods, claims avoidance and dispute resolution that will help you stay out of trouble and keep your project on track.
Register today to gain the practical insight you need to deal with any challenges that come your way, including tips on avoiding claims through better procedures. Don't wait - register today to make sure you stay on the cutting-edge of your field.
In today's construction world, with budgets tightening and fewer projects available, there is very little financial margin in most bids to cover significant problems at the jobsite. At the same time, modern software has become so sophisticated and powerful that devastating delays and disruption can be virtually hidden until it is too late to take meaningful actions. Learn how to protect your and your client's interests by unveiling the methods used by schedulers to hide the truth and determine the real status of your project before the project spirals into a train wreck.
Who should attend?
This seminar is designed for attorneys, construction and
project managers, engineers, presidents, vice presidents, owners,
architects, contractors and subcontractors.
Benefits for You
- Draft and interpret different contract provisions relating to the schedule and impacts
- Discover the magic behind a critical path method schedule
- Get the facts on baseline schedule tricks, traps and ploys
- Properly address legal issues relevant to scheduling and recovery of delay damages
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to discuss critical path method scheduling.
- You will be able to describe baseline schedule tricks, traps and ploys.
- You will be able to review what are excusable and compensable delays.
- You will be able to identify legal issues relevant to scheduling and recovery of delay damages.
Agenda
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM |
Registration |
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9:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
Overview |
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— Rick Cianfaglione, PSP, CCM |
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- Building a Project That Will Stand the Test of Time
- Scheduling Today
- Today's Tricks, Traps and Ploys
- Why Realistic, Well Thought-out Schedules Benefit Everyone
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9:30 AM - 10:15 AM |
Interpreting Standard Contract Provisions |
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— Jonathan R. Hausner |
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- Contract Duration
- Liquidated Damages
- Responsibility for Coordination
- Schedule Preparation and Updating
- No Damage for Delay
- Implied Duties
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10:15 AM - 10:30 AM |
Break |
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
Critical Path Method Scheduling Basics |
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— Rick Cianfaglione, PSP, CCM |
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- What Is Critical Path Scheduling?
- Characteristics of a Useful Schedule
- Practical Considerations
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
The Magic Behind a Critical Path Method Schedule |
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— Rick Cianfaglione, PSP, CCM |
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- Preferential and Mandatory Logic
- Schedule Calculation Methods
- Work Calendars
- Resource Constraints and Mandatory Start and Finish Dates
- Schedule Plot Formats
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11:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
Baseline Schedule Tricks, Traps and Ploys |
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— Rick Cianfaglione, PSP, CCM |
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- Late Baseline Schedules
- Flawed Baseline Schedules
- Float Sequestration
- Early Completion Schedules
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
Lunch (On Your Own) |
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1:00 PM - 2:05 PM |
Schedule Updating Gamesmanship and Watch Outs |
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— Rick Cianfaglione, PSP, CCM |
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- The Abandoned Schedule
- Out-of-Sequence Work
- The Insertion of Delay Activities
- Inaccurate Progressing of the Schedule
- Calendar Issues
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2:05 PM - 3:05 PM |
Delay Evaluation Uses and Abuses |
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— Rick Cianfaglione, PSP, CCM |
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- What Are Excusable and Compensable Delays?
- Delay Evaluation Techniques
- Tricks, Traps and Ploys
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3:05 PM - 3:20 PM |
Break |
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3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
Legal Issues Relevant to Scheduling and Recovery of Delay Damages |
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— Jonathan R. Hausner |
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- What Is Substantially Complete?
- Who Owns the Float?
- The Right to Finish Early
- Concurrent Delay
- Legal Burdens and Standard of Proof for Recovery of Delay Damages
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4:20 PM - 4:30 PM |
Questions and Answers |
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— Rick Cianfaglione, PSP, CCM and Jonathan R. Hausner |