Construction Delays (Third Edition)

Construction Delays, Third Edition, provides the latest specialized tools and techniques needed to avoid delays on construction projects. These include institutional, industrial, commercial, hi-rise, power and water, transportation and marine construction projects. Most other references provide only post facto construction delay analysis. This update includes 18 chapters, 105 sections and approximately 100 new pages relative to the second edition. Features greatly expanded discussion of the project management concerns related to construction delays, including a more comprehensive discussion of the development and review of the project schedule Offers a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the most common construction delay approaches and how they should be properly deployed or avoided Includes significant discussion of the contract provisions governing scheduling, the measurement of delays and payments for delay Includes numerous real world case studies Front Cover -- Construction Delays -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Third Edition -- 1. Project Scheduling -- The Project Schedule -- The Primary Purpose of a Project Schedule -- Effectively depicting and communicating the construction plan -- Track and measure the work -- Timely decisions -- Types of Project Schedules -- Narrative schedules -- Gantt charts -- Linear schedules -- Critical path method schedules -- Summary -- 2. Float and the Critical Path -- What Is Float? -- The forward and backward passes -- The difference is the total float -- Negative Float -- Who Owns the Float? -- What Is the Critical Path? -- Redefining the Critical Path as the Longest Path -- How multiple calendars affect total float on the critical path? -- How constraints affect activities and their total float? -- Multiple Critical Paths -- 3. Reviewing the Project Schedule -- Reviewing the Baseline Schedule -- Does the baseline schedule comply with the contract? -- Does the baseline schedule represent a reasonable plan for completion? -- Does the baseline schedule violate good CPM scheduling practices? -- Responding to the contractor's baseline schedule submission -- Approval Versus Acceptance -- Early Completion Schedules -- Reviewing a Schedule Update -- Steps to Review a Schedule Update -- Confirm that the schedule is calculated using retained logic -- Status of contract completion and milestone dates -- Confirm that the as-built information is correct -- Review the narrative -- Identifying and measuring the delay or savings experienced during the update period -- Evaluate the effect of progress on the completion and milestone dates during an update period -- Evaluating the effect of schedule revisions -- Properly responding to the contractor's schedule update submissions -- 4. Types of Construction Delays Front-matter_2018_Construction-Delays Copyright_2018_Construction-Delays Dedication_2018_Construction-Delays Foreword_2018_Construction-Delays Acknowledgments_2018_Construction-Delays Introduction-to-Third-Edition_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-One---Project-Scheduling_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Two---Float-and-the-Critical-Path_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Three---Reviewing-the-Project-Schedule_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Four---Types-of-Construction-Delays_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Five---Measuring-Delays-The-Basics_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Six---Delay-Analysis-Using-Bar-Chart-Schedul_2018_Construction-Delay Chapter-Seven---Delay-Analysis-Using-Critical-Path-Meth_2018_Construction-De Chapter-Eight---Delay-Analysis-Using-No-Schedules_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Nine---Other-Retrospective-Delay-Analysis-Techniqu_2018_Construction Chapter-Ten---The-Owner-s-Damages-Due-to-Delay_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Eleven---The-Contractor-s-Damages-Due-to-Del_2018_Construction-Delay Chapter-Twelve---Home-Office-Overhead_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Thirteen---Other-Categories-of-Delay-Costs_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Fourteen---Inefficiency-Caused-by-Delay_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Fifteen---Acceleration_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Sixteen---Determining-Responsibility-for-Del_2018_Construction-Delay Chapter-Seventeen---Delay-Risk-Management_2018_Construction-Delays Chapter-Eighteen---Delays-and-the-Contract_2018_Construction-Delays Index_2018_Construction-Delays