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Overview

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the intended purpose of construction scheduling for proper project planning and coordination.
• Identify more than 15 types of scheduling games used to build claims against project owners.
• Implement over 45 suggested defenses to prevent schedule gamesmanship.
• Incorporate changes to contract document language during the design phase to mitigate potential scheduling issues.
• Apply pragmatic defenses on a daily basis with a knowledgeable construction management team, even without specific contract language.

Description
For both owners and contractors, a careful drafting and reading of the schedule specifications is imperative. Contractors can lose their rights; owners can lose their shirts. The intent of schedule specifications is to measure progress on the job but also to mitigate future delays and resolve past disputes. Learn what some industry-recognized specifications have done to combat abuse and why further changes may still be necessary.

The Construction Schedule Games Updated and Revisited paper will be provided to all attendees to serve as a checklist for identifying and addressing schedule games. This thorough treatment of the subject cannot be presented in one webinar, so it is being presented in a special two-part series. A 10-to-15 minute period has been reserved at the end of each session for an interactive question-and-answer period so attendees can discuss specific issues or gain additional knowledge about topics discussed.

Who Should Attend
This webinar is a must if you're a contractor, public or private owner, subcontractor, construction manager, owner's representative, architect, or other design professional providing project oversight services.

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Syllabus

Course Outline

Whether through intentional strategy, inattention to schedule specs or merely sloppy practices, learn the various sorts of schedule games and why you need to be aware of them, including:

• Introduction
• Multiple critical paths
• Multiple calendars
• Preferential logic & open end activities
• Float ownership
• Sequestering of float
• Early completion schedules
• Missing or added constraints
• Long lead time procurement activities
• Improper and manipulated updates
• Unsubmitted, late and inaccurate baseline submittals
• CPM software settings that affect schedule calculations and completion dates
• Conclusion
• Questions & Answers

Instructor

Jim is the Principal, James Zack Consulting, LLC and Senior Advisor, Ankura Construction Forum™. The Forum strives to be the construction industry’s resource for thought leadership and best practices on avoidance and resolution of construction project disputes globally.

Formerly he was the Executive Director of the Navigant Construction Forum™ and earlier, the Executive Director, Corporate Claims Management Group, Fluor Corporation, one of the world’s largest EPCM contractors. Mr. Zack was previously Vice President of PinnacleOne and the Executive Director of the PinnacleOne Institute and a Senior Construction Claims Consultant for CH2M HILL, Inc.

Mr. Zack has, for more than 53 years, worked on both private and public projects throughout the U.S. and in 39 countries abroad. Mr. Zack is a Fellow of AACE, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Guild of Project Controls and Society of Construction Claims Specialists International. 

In the construction claims field, he is a recognized and published expert in mitigation, analysis and resolution or defense of construction claims and disputes. 

Mr. Zack is a Certified Construction Manager (CCM), a Certified Forensic Claims Consultant (CFCC), an Expert Certified Construction Claims Specialist (ECCCS), an Expert Certified Construction Delay Analyst (ECCDA) and a Project Management Professional (PMP).