Contracts, Delays and Claims with Primavera P6 (2.5 PDUs)

Explore how project schedule management uses the critical path method to compute early and late dates, total float, fast tracking and crashing, and baseline schedule to meet deadlines.

Master procurement management for large projects by analyzing make-or-buy decisions and preparing procurement documents. Evaluate seller responses, select contracts, and monitor performance, delays, and claims throughout the procurement lifecycle.

identify three contract types: fixed price, time and material, and cost reimbursable, and summarize their subtypes, incentives, price adjustments, and use in uncertain scope and rapid resourcing.

Explore how FIDIC standard forms standardize contracts for consulting engineers worldwide, detailing general conditions and part two conditions, document hierarchy, and disputes resolution process including amicable settlement and arbitration.

Learn how the priority of documents clause, giving drawings precedence over the bill of quantities in a real case, resolves claims and reduces disputes in contract management.

Identify and analyze risks before execution, plan risk responses, and manage potential delays and costs. Understand how risk, conflict, claim, and dispute interrelate and are resolved via contracts and documentation.

Explore excusable and non-excusable delays, compensable and non-compensable delays, critical and non-critical delays, and concurrent versus non-concurrent delays, with examples like labor strikes, disasters, and design changes.

Analyze how concurrent delays interact with force majeure, owner or contractor delays, and determine when delays are excusable, compensable, or non-compensable, with extension of time considerations.

Manage claims by identifying delay causes, recording causation with contemporary documentation, and preparing time and cost claims through a structured process for amicable resolution, arbitration, or litigation.

Identify the cause of claim early and keep thorough records; use a detailed list of possible causes to actively review resources, delays, and documentation gaps to improve claim resolution.

Keep contemporary records to improve the chances of favorable claims resolution. Use RFI logs, shop drawings, daily field reports, progress reports, and variation orders to document causation and changes.

categorize a recorded delay as concurrent or non-concurrent, then determine if it is excusable; if excusable, assess whether it is compensable using a table and a sample project.

Analyze delays to attribute blame between contractor and owner using techniques such as as-planned vs as-built, impacted as-planned, collapsed as-built, and time impact analysis.

Explains a sample Primavera P6 project with eight activities, durations, and start-to-start links, showing a 19-day critical path and 26 days actual due to contractor, owner, or force majeure delays.

Explain the as-planned versus as-built technique for project duration comparison. Example shows planned 19 days and actual 26 days, highlighting simplicity and the lack of delay, criticality, and concurrency insights.

Apply the impacted as planned technique to measure delays by sequentially adding them, recording each type and impact, and calculating the total extension of time and possible liquidated damages.

The collapsed as-built technique analyzes delays by removing non-excludable and compensable delays, compares actual and adjusted finish dates, and distinguishes owner and contractor responsibilities to quantify compensable and non-compensable delay.

Apply window (time impact) analysis as a dynamic delay method updating actual data in windows to recalculate cpm and project completion, using Primavera P6 for practice.

Learn how to choose delay analysis techniques, considering records accuracy, time, claim type, and software, and compare as-planned, as-built, collapsed, and window analyses in Primavera P6.

Compare the as-planned and as-built baselines in Primavera P6, update actuals, and quantify the delay by analyzing baseline finish versus actual finish.

Learn the impacted as planned method in Primavera P6, comparing representing delays in bars versus adding delays as activities, using baselines, fields, and notes to support delay claims.

Learn the impacted as planned method 2 in Primavera P6 by adding delays as activities and linking them to tasks; save baselines and use color-coded bars for excusable compensable delays.

Apply collapsed as built analysis in Primavera P6 with subtractive delay simulation. Identify excusable and nonexcusable delays using actual start and finish data to establish a baseline.

Learn how to perform window (time impact) analysis in Primavera P6 by baselining, updating progress every window, and recording excusable and compensable delays to assess project impact.

Submit a well-documented claim with project and contract background, including events, legal basis, supporting clauses, and contemporaneous records. Compile extension of time analysis, methodology, results, and appendices to support resolution.

Examine the team settlement process after submission to the owner or consultant, including review within contract timelines, and escalation to dispute adjudication board, arbitration, amicable settlement, or litigation.

Dispute adjudication boards are contract-based authorities that issue binding decisions to resolve disputes. They comprise independent members, review project documents, and may hold hearings or provide written recommendations.

Discover arbitration as a non-judicial, binding dispute resolution using an external arbitrator or arbitral institute, with advantages such as confidentiality and lower costs; compare ad hoc and institutional arbitration.

Celebrate the completion of this course by applying new claims management skills, including contract types of delays, delay analysis techniques, cost claims, and dispute resolution with Primavera B-6.

Advance your project management skills by applying Primavera B-6 concepts and practical implementation, and enhance your Primavera basic skills through upcoming courses.