Keep the record while it is still cost-effective
Schedules, updates and daily records cost little to keep during the project and are much harder to rebuild later.
General contractors, subcontractors and construction managers
Contractor Construction Administration Services
Schedule preparation and maintenance may document progress, forecasts and events relevant to later technical questions. The available record and contract affect the scope of that work.
Schedules, updates and other project records may inform an analysis. Where information is incomplete, forensic reconstruction may be relevant, with its supporting sources, assumptions and limitations explained in context.
This practice covers baseline schedules, updates, progress monitoring and the time and change requests that follow from them. Our consultants ran construction work before they analyzed it, and that field experience informs the schedules.
Schedule development, updates, progress information and request preparation may support different project decisions. The available records and contract affect how those tasks relate to one another.
A request may identify the information supporting the technical questions, assumptions and limitations. The analysis does not promise acceptance, persuasion or a particular resolution.
Build requests a skeptic can follow
Construction records connecting the requested adjustment, reported events, schedule effects and cost support, with assumptions and limitations explained.
Claim only what the documentation supports
Each time extension or change order request is limited to the days and costs the project records support.
The full practice
Every service in this group
- Prepare Baseline ScheduleCPM schedule development and review in relation to the project facts and contract requirements.
- Prepare Schedule UpdatesPeriodic updates documenting progress, forecast assumptions and material revisions.
- Construction Progress MonitoringAssessment of reported progress, project information and relevant forecasts.
- Delay Analysis & Project Progress MonitoringAnalyzing delay events, their supported time effects and the contract administration record.
- Schedule Requirement SpecificationWriting the scheduling specification so it produces a usable record, not a compliance exercise.
- Prepare Time Impact Analysis (TIA)Modeling identified events in a selected schedule, with the time perspective, assumptions and limits explained.
- Prepare Extension of Time RequestsTechnical support for time requests using available schedules and project information.
- Change Order RequestsPricing and substantiating changes, including their effect on time.
- Requests for Equitable AdjustmentA documented claim for the cost and time consequences of a change in the work.
- Estimating AssistanceTechnical estimating and cost analysis for bids, changes and claims.
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