Construction Series – Keeping Time: Improving Your Project Planning and Scheduling Practice

Summary

Just like a composer’s score keeps horns, strings, and percussion on track in an orchestra, delay claims cannot be successfully presented without a project schedule that has been properly prepared and maintained. This session will examine the current mindset, explore emerging trends, and look toward the future of planning and scheduling within the construction industry. We’ll take a look at best practices in the planning and scheduling process, highlighting specific methods to avoid current criticisms and increase the effectiveness of the process as a whole. We’ll also point out some tips and tricks related to the use of CPM schedules and related software as they are used in the project schedule in the delay claim process.

Learning Objectives

Current Trends and the Future
The Planning Process
CPM Scheduling
- Baseline
  - Purpose/Objective
  - Structure/Components
  - “Best practice” preparation approach
Updates
- “Best practice” preparation process
Reliance in preparing claim
- The as-built schedule
- The unexpected event
Revised/Recovery/Acceleration
- Definition
- When do we need these schedules?
- Recovery versus acceleration schedule
Tips and tricks for preparing and evaluating CPM schedules

Construction Contracting
Best Practices for Delay Claims Preparation, Defense, and Avoidance

5-Part Webinar Series - for more information on the whole series, click here.

May 14: Keeping Time - Improving your Project Planning and Scheduling Practice
June 4: Sweat the Small Stuff - The Indispensable Advantage of Effective Project Documentation
June 25: Are we Late? Oh It's Already Over? What Delay Claim Methodology Should I Use?
July 16: More Effective Delay Claim Preparation and Analysis
August 6: Sailing the Hudson in your Eichleay while Avoiding Liquidated Damage - Determining Delay Related Damages