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

Learn how differing site conditions shift risk under contract clauses, and identify and apply real-world examples from construction projects.

Understand the differing site conditions clause, including type one, type two, and type three hazardous site conditions, and how owners bear risk while contractors must disclose, investigate, and promptly notify.

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.

Apply a differing site conditions clause in contracts. Conduct thorough site inspections and prompt notices, and maintain meticulous records to manage risk and keep projects moving.

This lecture explains a sudden safety regulation requiring nets within 30 feet or two stories, causing an 18-day delay and outlining how delays and compensation are handled in contracts.

Distinguish suspension from delay and excusable from compensable delays, noting how time and money change; recognize time is of the essence and no damage for delay clauses.

Learn to identify delay types and determine whether they are excusable, compensable, or non-compensable across scenarios like suspensions, weather, changes, and differing site conditions.

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.

Explore how time extensions arise for construction delays, distinguish excusable from non-compensable delays, and define damages and remedies when projects miss schedules.

Learn the time extension process for construction delays, starting with a notice of delay and a later delay claim, plus CPM analysis and concurrent delay considerations.

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.

Explore time extensions, proper notice, documentation, and timely owner responses impacting contract changes. Understand how the schedule governs claims, float, critical path, consequential damages, and liquidated damages.

Define constructive acceleration and guide contractors to pursue time extensions, protest notices, and documented acceleration costs to compress schedules when claims are denied.

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.

Cover constructive, directed, and voluntary acceleration in construction contracts, emphasizing timely notices, owner responses, and time extensions to manage costs and avoid acceleration.

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.