Project Manager's Playbook for Construction - Part 4 of 6

Explore practical examples of differing site conditions, classify them as type one or two, and examine reverse differing site conditions, utilities, and the role of site visits in risk allocation.

Explore real-world delay scenarios in construction contracts, distinguishing excusable from compensable delays through a gray, survey-driven game show approach. Learn how owner actions, weather, shortages, and incidents affect project timelines.

Clarify differences between excusable and compensable delays, and the gates of time and money, while noting no damage for delay and time is of the essence, with documentation.

Assess how contractor delays create actual or direct damages and consequential damages for the owner, and how contracts use liquidated damages, waivers of consequential damages, and flow-down to subcontractors.

Compare directed and voluntary acceleration in construction: directed acceleration uses change provisions for early completion, while voluntary acceleration is contractor driven to gain time, despite overtime and cost plus implications.

Move into fifth block of the course, covering money issues, progress payments, productivity units and labor, self reform work tracking, and financial projections to see if the project makes money.