Construction Delays

Construction Delays, Third Edition, provides the latest specialized tools and techniques needed to avoid delays on construction projects. These include institutional, industrial, commercial, hi-rise, power and water, transportation and marine construction projects. Most other references provide only post facto construction delay analysis. This update includes 18 chapters, 105 sections and approximately 100 new pages relative to the second edition.

Features greatly expanded discussion of the project management concerns related to construction delays, including a more comprehensive discussion of the development and review of the project schedule Offers a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the most common construction delay approaches and how they should be properly deployed or avoided Includes significant discussion of the contract provisions governing scheduling, the measurement of delays and payments for delay Includes numerous real world case studies

1. Project Scheduling
2. Float and the Critical Path
3. Schedule Reviews
4. Types of Construction Delays
5. Measuring Delays - The Basics
6. Delay Analysis Using Bar Chart Schedules
7. Delay Analysis Using CPM Schedules
8. Delay Analysis Using No Schedules
9. Other Forensic Schedule Analysis Techniques - Their Strengths and Weaknesses
10. The Owner’s Damages Due to Delay
11. The Contractor’s Damages Due to Delay
12. Home Office Overhead
13. Other Categories of Delay Damages
14. Inefficiency Caused by Delay
15. Acceleration
16. Determining Responsibility for Delay
17. Risk Management
18. Delays and the Contract