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- Construction Claim Consulting

- Cost and Damage assessment
- Delay claim analysis
- Change order analysis
- Quality control issues

Construction Schedule Analysis

• Assemble the best available documentation record of the project
• Examine the project record in detail
• Create a relational database of all relevant documents and testimony as required.
• Analyze the original as-planned schedule for contract conformance
• Establish accurate as-built schedule updates for review
• Identify delay issues
• Identify impact issues
• Identify changes to the scope of work
• Perform detailed analysis of the schedule updates
• Identify out of sequence work
• Identify adverse weather impacts to the schedule
• Identify individual contractor conformance to the schedule
• Identify party or parties responsible for a delay or impact to the schedule

Documentation of the Effect of Schedule Changes on the Project

• Identify changes to extended overhead costs
• Document loss of productivity
• Establish actual damages
• Identify compensable and non-compensable components of the delay
• Prepare accurate cost report for claim
• Prepare narrative report outlining actual impacts to the work, sustained damages, and changes in contract time, and allocate responsibility for damages, as required
• Prepare graphic representation of impacts to the schedule
• Prepare trial exhibits to support testimony Resolution of the Claim
• Assist in preparing negotiation strategy
• Assist in claim negotiation with reports, graphical evidence and cost summary
• Assist in development of discovery plan
• Assist in depositions
• Refute technical evidence presented by opposing side as appropriate
• Provide expert testimony as appropriate

Resolution of the Claim

• Assist in preparing negotiation strategy
• Assist in claim negotiation with reports, graphical evidence and cost summary
• Assist in development of discovery plan
• Assist in depositions
• Refute technical evidence presented by opposing side as appropriate
• Provide expert testimony as appropriate