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Overview

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

• Understand what owners, designers, and construction managers can do during the planning phase to avoid claims and mitigate disputes.
• Identify actions that owners and their project teams can plan for to help avoid or mitigate claims during the construction phase.
• Explore strategies for the owner's team to avoid claims during the project's bidding phase.
• Review actions bidders can take to mitigate claims during construction and avoid disputes.

Description
Project owners, design professionals, construction managers, and contractors frequently ask for recommendations on how to avoid disputes on future construction projects. They acknowledge that there is no such thing as a "claim-free" project but are seeking ways to close out projects without resorting to arbitration or litigation at the end. This webinar is based on interviews with experienced practitioners in the construction industry.

This webinar factors in their experience, observations, and thinking. It will address the issues of claims mitigation and dispute avoidance issues during a project's planning, design and bidding phases. These three phases all too often lay the groundwork for future claims, claims that do not manifest themselves until construction is underway.

This webinar discusses actions that owners, designers and construction managers can take to help avoid claims during construction or, should they arise, resolve them on the project site and not in arbitration or litigation. This webinar identifies 9 actions owner project teams can take during the planning phase to help avoid claims during construction. The webinar continues with 28 actions owner teams can take during design to mitigate the potential for claims during construction.

The third portion of the webinar identifies 6 actions owners can take and 6 actions bidders can take to avoid later claims.

Who Should Attend

• Owners
• Design professionals
• Construction managers
• Contractors
• Subcontractors
• Construction attorneys

Please note: You can check other time zones here.

Syllabus

Course Outline

• Introduction
• Claims Recognition, Mitigation & Dispute Avoidance
  • The Planning Phase
  • The Design Phase
  • The Bidding Phase
  • Conclusion
• Questions

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).