Accustomed to missed targets, endless changes and inability to recover delays?

CPM Scheduling

Construction Risk Consultants utilizes CPM (Critical Path Method) Scheduling as an effective management tool to reduce risk and improve project performance. Improved performance can be gauged by our ability to quickly identify construction delays, as soon as they occur, and develop recovery plans to maintain the original schedule and eliminate unanticipated costs associated with delay and/or acceleration. 

The most common cause of construction claims is delay. The most significant unanticpated costs are the financial impacts due to delay and disruptions to the work.

Construction Risk Consultants supports contractors, owners, engineering and design firms and their counsel with forensic delay analysis to assess and support entitlement and compensability of complex delay and disruption construction claims.

Our detailed forensic delay analysis supports our classification of delay(s) and entitlement recommendations to support excusable vs. non-excusable, compensable vs. non-compensable, concurrency of delays and entitlement to time extensions and equitable adjustment.

Insightful Solutions:

Is your project currently suffering from countless revisions to engineering issue dates? Engineering packages that are often incomplete or lack adequate coordination or quality assurance? Significant scope changes? Inability to plan and prosecute efficient field work?

Since contract milestone dates are fixed, the end result is projects that are severely delayed and profits that are severely reduced.

Construction Risk Consultants supports your project team every step of the way to improve efficiency by ensuring that design, permits, equipment and materials delivery are planned correctly right from the start.

Effective CPM Scheduling Techniques

Setting up a winning project factors in potential risk that may be encountered and identifies the tools necessary to manage to reduce or eliminate risk. There are many forms of unforseen conditions that may derail well planned projects. Delays encountered often cause disruptions to the progress of the work and strain relationship among the parties involved.

When a construction delay is encountered, it is necessary to reference an original plan or a baseline for comparison. As a result, any meaningful delay analysis begins with the development of a detailed baseline schedule.

Progress Updates and Delay Integration

Frequent progress updates serve a key role in analyzing construction delays. Snapshots of the project just prior to the occurrence of the delay serve as the basis for establishing the impacts due to the delays encountered. This earlier snapshot can then be compared with the as-built data after the delay has been encountered. This data can further be analyzed to identify the parties involed and apportion delay responsibilities accordingly.

This data can also be utilized pro-actively by analyzing impacts due to potential future delays. This helps the project teams to unify and find solutions to potential problems before they occur.

Notices and Analysis of Delay Impact(s)

Construction contracts often require the contractor to provide the owner with a written notice documenting the nature of the delay within a specified period of time. Anlaysis of impact(s) due to the delay may also be required to substantiate any requests for time extensions and/or equitable adjustment.

These key submittals allow owners and their agents to make critical decisions to either extend the contract milestone dates or direct the contractor to acclerate the work at a cost.

Constructive Acceleration

When a delay is encountered and the contractor has provided sufficient notices per the contract requirements and in the absense of an owner directed acceleration, contractors often face tough decisions to either constructively accelerate the work or complete the project late and be liable for liquidated damages.

To effectively mitigate these circumstances, the contractor must demonstrate the reasonableness of the schedule and its status at the time of constructively accelerating the work.