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Construction Delays

  • 3rd Edition - September 20, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Mark F Nagata, William A Manginelli, Scott Lowe, Ted J Trauner
  • Language: English

Construction Delays, Third Edition, provides the latest specialized tools and techniques needed to avoid delays on construction projects. These include institutional, industria… Read more

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Description

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Public and Private Owners; Contractors, Subcontractors, and Material Suppliers; Architects, Engineers, and other Design Professionals; Construction Project Managers; and the Attorneys that represent them all

Table of contents

1. Project Scheduling2. Float and the Critical Path3. Schedule Reviews4. Types of Construction Delays5. Measuring Delays - The Basics6. Delay Analysis Using Bar Chart Schedules7. Delay Analysis Using CPM Schedules8. Delay Analysis Using No Schedules9. Other Forensic Schedule Analysis Techniques - Their Strengths and Weaknesses10. The Owner’s Damages Due to Delay11. The Contractor’s Damages Due to Delay12. Home Office Overhead13. Other Categories of Delay Damages14. Inefficiency Caused by Delay15. Acceleration16. Determining Responsibility for Delay17. Risk Management18. Delays and the Contract

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 22, 2017
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Mark F Nagata

Mark is a recognized expert regarding the analysis of Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules. He’s a qualified expert witness. Mark was a contributing author and continues to provide updates and revisions to the AACE International’s (AACEi) Recommended Practice No. 29R-03 for Forensic Schedule Analysis (RP-FSA. He writes and speaks nationally and internationally on construction claim topics. Mark uses his expertise to help his client’s prepare, evaluate, and analyze delays, inefficiencies, acceleration, and damages on projects including transportation, power, medical, education, commercial, and high-rise buildings across the US and internationally.
Affiliations and expertise
Trauner Consulting Service, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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William A Manginelli

William A. Manginelli has extensive experience in project management, scheduling, construction change analysis, and surety completion on many types of projects including institutional, industrial, commercial, hi-rise, power and water, transportation, and marine construction. His expertise lies in the areas of construction management and the analysis of construction impacts, including delays, inefficiency, acceleration, and damages.
Affiliations and expertise
Trauner Consulting Service, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Scott Lowe

Scott Lowe, P.E., has directed and performed all types of analyses related to claims including delay and inefficiency (typically using measured mile for inefficiency); assessed responsibility for contract changes; and calculated various types of delay damages. He has evaluated problems and offered solutions on almost every type of project including transportation, water and wastewater treatment, power, process and manufacturing, medical, educational, commercial, correctional, hotels, condominiums, residential, and athletic facilities. He has worked on projects large and small throughout the US and internationally.
Affiliations and expertise
Trauner Consulting Service, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Ted J Trauner

A nationally recognized construction expert in scheduling, construction management, cost overruns/damages, construction means and methods, and delay and inefficiency analysis, Ted has either managed construction or evaluated problems on virtually every type of project including transportation, water/wastewater treatment, power, process and manufacturing, medical, educational, commercial, correctional, hotels, condominiums, residential housing, and athletic facilities.
Affiliations and expertise
Trauner Consulting Service, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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