Capturing Supervision Consultant Overtime Charges for Supervising Contractor’s Activities in Construction Projects

One of the common items in interim payment applications for construction contracts is the deductions for the engineering consultant team for the overtime and weekend hours spent in supervising construction activities that the contractor needs to carry out during those hours. The contractor would formally request the same before the Read more…

Using the Material Inspection Request (MIR) Process to Get Paid for Stored and Delivered Materials on Construction Sites

One of the elements of an interim payment on construction projects is the payment for the contractor’s procured material delivered, stored, and inspected at the project site. The contractor needs to provide supportive details of all material delivered as well as quantify the remaining material stored at the project site. Read more…

Using Project Management Information Systems to Rebuild the Project Records and Documents for Forensic Delay Analysis on Construction Projects

Rarely will you find a construction project that does not require carrying forensic delay analysis either to claim a delay or to counter a delay claim. Such delay analysis depends largely on what has happened on the project where most of the project team members who were involved in delivering Read more…