Capturing and Documenting As-Planned Schedule, As-Built Schedule and Periodical Updates Needed for the After-the-Fact Schedule Delay Analysis Methods on Construction Projects

On construction projects, schedule delay claims that affect the project completion date are becoming a common event. Those are the delays that are beyond the contractor’s control. The events that entitle the contractor to delay claims are normally specified in a contract provision. For example, in the FIDIC Red Book, Read more…

Monitoring, Evaluating, and Reporting Construction Performance by Trade and Level for High-Rise Towers

Those involved in the construction of high-rise towers usually like to have an easy-to-understand report that shows the overall project performance on a single page. Of course, by doing so, they want to sacrifice the quality and trustworthiness of the reported performance data. There also could be the requirement to Read more…

Monitoring, Evaluating, and Reporting Planned and Actual Resources Usage and Performance Efficiency During the Capital Project Engineering Phase

For Engineering Consultants, EPC Contractors, Design-Build Contractors, and other entities whose work scope includes creating engineering deliverables such as drawings and specifications. They always need to plan the resources required to make those deliverables capture the actual resource hours spent in creating them. They need this information to enable them Read more…