Construction Management - Pricing Contractor Delay Costs
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May 30, 2025
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Course Code: 0516-WEB25
- Overview
- Syllabus
- Instructor
Overview
After participating in this course, you will be able to:
- Assess the recoverability of extended field office overhead costs during compensable project delays.
- Utilize various methods for calculating field office overhead, including actual cost, total cost, and jury verdict approaches.
- Recognize which costs should be excluded from a contractor’s overhead submissions.
- Implement contract terms that clearly outline methods for managing delay damages and avoiding disputes.
- Address the defense of a contractor’s obligation to mitigate damages effectively.
Description
When contractors encounter owner-caused (excusable/compensable) delays they are typically entitled under the contract to recover both the time resulting from the delay as well as delay damages.
Idled equipment/labour and material escalation costs are fairly easily calculated in such situations. Typically, contractors also seek to recover their delay costs (extended field office overhead or general conditions costs). Calculating this cost is more complex than dealing with delayed direct costs. There are, at least, eight methods of calculating extended field office overhead costs.
None of the calculations arrive at the same daily delay cost. This webinar discusses all eight methods – offering commentary on the strong and weak points of each. The paper also offers recommendations on how project owners can resolve this dilemma in advance of delays, thus making the issue less contentious should a contractor encounter an owner-caused delay.
Who Should Attend
- General contractors and their project managers
- Project owners and their representatives
- Design professionals
- Construction managers
- Construction attorneys
Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Time
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Syllabus
Course Outline
- Types of Delay
- What Are Delay Costs?
- What Are Extended General Conditions Costs?
- How Are Extended General Conditions Costs Calculated?
- Other Issues Related to Extended General Conditions
Instructor
Jim ZackJim is the Senior Advisor to the recently formed Ankura Construction Forum™.
The Forum strives to be the construction industry’s resource for thought leadership and best practices on global avoidance and resolution of construction project disputes. Jim was the founder and Executive Director of the Navigant Construction Forum™. Formerly he was the Executive Director of Corporate Claims Management Group, Fluor Corporation, one of the world’s largest EPCM contractors. Before this, Jim was Vice President of PinnacleOne, Executive Director of the PinnacleOne Institute, and Senior Construction Claims Consultant for CH2M HILL, Inc.
For 46 years, he has worked on private and public projects throughout the U.S. and in 28 countries abroad. Jim has worked for contractors and owners on over 5,000 claims in his career. He is a Fellow of AACE International, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the International Guild of Project Controls. He is a recognized and published expert in the mitigation, analysis and resolution of defense of construction claims and disputes in the construction claims field.
Jim is a Certified Construction Manager (CCM), a Certified Forensic Claims Consultant (CFCC), and a Project Management Professional (PMP).

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Fee & Credits
$149 + taxes
- 0.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
- 2 Continuing Professional Development Hours (PDHs/CPDs)
- ECAA Annual Professional Development Points
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