Industrial construction GMP schedule risk, on a job with no room to be wrong
Industrial construction GMP schedule risk comes from compression. A twelve month job has no float, so every problem lands on the completion date.
Schedule and delay
Whether the date is real, where the float sits, and who owns it when it moves.
What this covers
The questions in this category
- Testing whether the completion date is real
- Float and who owns it
- Owner decisions on the critical path
- Liquidated damages in practice
- Weather and how the contract allocates it
- Recovery schedules
Published
13 pieces
Senior living construction licensing delay, and the date after the date
A senior living construction licensing delay costs more than the work that caused it, because a building that cannot be licensed cannot take residents.
ICRA construction cost impact, and what infection control does to a schedule
ICRA construction cost impact is mostly schedule rather than material. Containment and restricted access change how fast the work can be done at all.
Hotel opening date construction delay, and the cost of missing it by a month
A hotel opening date construction delay costs more than extended general conditions, because an opening is a season, a booking curve and a staffed payroll.
Phased handover data center construction promises, and what it depends on
Phased handover data center construction plans rest on early energization, and energization rests on a utility nobody in the contract controls.
Commercial fit out schedule risk, and what the leasing date does to it
Commercial fit out schedule risk starts the day a lease is signed. A date agreed in a leasing meeting becomes an obligation nobody has tested.
Substantial completion, and the punch list that follows it
Substantial completion stops liquidated damages and releases retainage. What the definition should require, and why the punch list is a separate question.
Construction milestone dates, and whether any of them bite
Construction milestone dates in a contract look like control. Most carry no consequence, which means they are targets rather than obligations.
Weather days in a construction contract, and the baseline nobody sets
Weather days are the most predictable delay claim on any project and the least well drafted. What a baseline does, and why unusual needs a definition.
Concurrent delay, and why both parties think they are right
Concurrent delay is two delays running at once, one each side. What the owner gets, what the contractor gets, and why the analysis method decides it.
Liquidated damages a construction owner can actually rely on
Liquidated damages a construction owner writes into a contract are a cap as often as a remedy, and the number is worth testing before it is agreed on.
Who owns float on a construction schedule, and what the contract says
Who owns float on a construction schedule is decided by one clause and by how the schedule was built. Most owners find out the answer during a delay claim.
How to review a construction schedule when the date looks too good
How to review a construction schedule as an owner: four tests that show whether the completion date is a plan with slack or a hope with a number on it.
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