At CPMPlanners, we believe that the most effective construction claims to consult begins long before a dispute arises on the job site. Our team of professional construction claim consultants will work with you to navigate the tough times when claims in construction projects arise. We will work with you through each step to identify, analyze, prepare and present construction claims on your engineered construction projects.
In the unfortunate event a construction claim does occur, our consultants are equipped to provide ongoing support in assessing or validating a party’s entitlement and quantification of damages to promote resolution. By analyzing the construction contract and the parties’ performance throughout the construction duration, our consultants can identify liability, quantify damages, and assist in resolving the dispute in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Services Offered
Change Order Impact
We offer all the necessary pieces to address any needs you might have for a change order impact evaluation services. Our expert consultants know first-hand the struggles of contractors and construction managers and assist our clients with these services:
- Schedule Delays and Disruptions
- Out of Sequence Work
- Stacking of Trades
- Adverse Weather Conditions
- Improper Response Time to Submittals
- Unavailability of Materials & Equipment
- Scheduling and Coordination
- Interference
- Acceleration
- Differing Site Condition
Schedule Delay Claim
Many delay claims in construction occur due to events beyond the parties’ control. No matter the cause of delay to your construction project, CPMPlanners will perform several types of construction claims to provide them with a complete review of your options.
We will communicate with you to understand your needs and the unique situation of your construction project. Once we have a clear picture of the situation and your desires, we will develop a construction claim analysis and present a Time Impact Analysis (TIA). This analysis will describe how much delay the change will have on your project’s schedule, and the time required realigning the schedule.
CPMPlanners offers industry-leading services to ensure timely and accurate construction projects. Our primary consulting management services include:
- Change in scope of work
- Right of way
- Utility turnover
- Differing site conditions
- “Act of God” events
- Customer-caused interference
- Unexpected severe weather
Labor Productivity Claims
Our labour productivity claims consultants have years of experience working on behalf of our clients to ensure their construction projects achieve their financial goals. Our professional staff have prepared and analyzed claims, negotiated for the interests of our customers, and presented meditations and litigation for various labour efficiency and productivity loss cases.
Productivity loss claims are frequent disputes on construction projects regardless of size or complexity. Since you are likely to be part of a productivity loss, you need to be prepared with the leading experts who will guide you through each stage of productivity and efficiency analysis, claims process, and litigation.
CPMPlanners have several services that can assist you in the productivity loss claims process:
- Claims evaluation and quantification
- Damages analysis and quantification
- Construction defect evaluation
- Standard of care for construction professionals
Time Impact Analysis
A Time Impact Analysis (TIA) is a technique used to estimate the impact that changes will have on your project schedule. The purpose of this analysis is to determine how past delays and other activities will impact your construction project. CPMPlanners has years of experience with all types of time impact analysis methods including:
- Time Impact Evaluation
- Modeled, Additive, Single & Multiple Base Analysis
- Impacted As-Planned
- Impacted Baseline
- Impacted Update Analysis
- Fragnet Analysis
- Fragnet Insertion
Our Time Impact Analysis Claim Consultants will review a party’s performance and use industry-standard means and methods to identify, quantify, and prepare TIA claims for time extensions or to substantiate delays. Your consultant will perform several steps including:
- Contract analysis
- Review & validate/compile as-planned schedule
- Insert fragment of activities representing delays into a reasonable as-planned schedule
- A constructability review of the impacted schedule
- Identify variances between planned & impacted schedules
- Causation analysis
- Identification, quantification & apportionment
Window Delay Analysis
A windows delay analysis is used to measure the impact that delays or disruptions can have over your project. This time-impact analysis technique estimates the causes and effects of the change to the critical path method (CPM) overtime periods called “windows”. The basic concept of this method of delay analysis is to compare the planned versus actual performance during a period of construction time.
CPMPlanners will perform all the required tasks to produce accurate and detailed contemporaneous windows delay analysis to address your project needs. We are capable of offering ongoing support to prepare and assess all the variables required for your construction delay claim.
We will perform all the necessary measures to complete your windows analysis for construction schedule updates. We will thoroughly review all documentation, testimony, and correspondence to determine responsibility for the delays. The steps we follow include:
- Contract analysis
- Review & validate planned schedule
- Review & validate/compile as-built schedule
- Identify variances between planned & as-built schedules
- Identify the controlling chain of activities
Non-CPM based schedules consisting of open-end tasks always fail in Schedule Health Check & Integrity Tests due to which updating, monitoring and controlling becomes difficult subsequently making the Time Impact Analysis (TIA) for Extension of Time (EOT) claim, completely IMPOSSIBLE!