Offered By: Administrative Controls Management
Professional Development Hours: 14
Course Number: AEP3001-CC2D00

This extensive two-day seminar covers contract changes, construction delays, and claim awareness. Attendees will be introduced to typical contract clauses, requirements for notification, pricing contract changes, the impacts of acceleration, liquidated damages, schedule submittals, and pricing contract delays. Attendees will gain a better understanding of contract language addressing owners' and contractors' rights and responsibilities, recognize potential areas of exposure to claims, minimize exposure to claims through proper management, project controls, and contract language, and mitigate damages and resolve disputes where claims are inevitable.

Course Outline

Contract Changes: The section begins with a discussion of project organization and construction contracts. Topics include determination of authority, typical change clauses, and requirements for notification of changes. Examples are presented and discussed to illustrate typical contract change situations. This section also addresses constructive changes, the impact of changes on unchanged work, and pricing contract changes. Contract language enhancements addressing owners' and contractors' rights and responsibilities are presented and discussed throughout the seminar.

Construction Delays: This section begins with a discussion of typical contract clauses regarding time and delays, such as "time is of the essence," "contract time extension," and "no damages for delay" clauses. Other discussion topics include time and delay related contract clauses, time requirements, delay complexities, schedule requirements, scheduling methods, and the relationship of scheduling to contract delays. Contract delays and their relationship to contract changes are explored, along with acceleration, liquidated damages, schedule submittals, and pricing contract delays. The contract delays section concludes with a presentation on how delays are substantiated by using CPM scheduling techniques.

Claim Awareness: This section opens with a discussion of tort law and its relationship to construction claims. Topics include control of the work, coordinating the work, interpretation of contract documents, responsibility for safety on the work site, and project documentation required to support a construction claim. Other topics include arbitration, litigation, and alternative dispute resolutions. This section concludes with a discussion of typical dispute resolution clause, and negotiation as an alternative to litigation or arbitration.

Topic Areas and Industries

• Architecture
• Business & Program Planning
• Claims & Dispute Resolution
• Construction
• Contract Management
• Cost Engineering
• Cost/Schedule Control
• Decision & Risk Management
• Facilities Management
• Legal Claims
• Management/Human Resources
• Manufacturing
• Manufacturing - High Tech
• Pharmaceuticals
• Planning & Scheduling
• Procurement
• Productivity
• Program & Project Management
• Project Control
• Project & Cost Control
• Quality Assurance/Management
• Standards
• Utilities & Energy
• Value Engineering & Constructability