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Time Extension Requests – What Must Be Proven?
- In this webinar, attendees will learn when a contractor is entitled to compensable delay and under what circumstances.
- Attendees will also learn the rules concerning the burden of proof concerning delay and what must be proven to justify the time extensions – both excusable and compensable.
- This webinar reveals several common misconceptions concerning concurrent delay and who has the burden of proof concerning concurrent delay.
- The webinar discusses when a contractor is not required to justify field and home office overhead costs once a compensable delay has been proven.
- Finally, the webinar discusses two recent court cases, one Federal and the other State, that may change the rules of the game concerning the use of concurrent delay as a defense against owner imposed liquidated damages.
Overview of the webinar
Whether a contractor, an owner, a design professional, a construction manager, or a contractor, all construction professionals must learn how to prepare, analyze, and justify time extension requests. Owners and their representatives are tasked with the responsibility of receiving, analyzing, and recommending a course of action and deciding on all-time extension requests submitted by contractors. Contractors and CM’s@Risk are required to analyze, prepare, justify and submit time extension requests on their own behalf and/or on behalf of their subcontractors. This presentation identifies the tests that have been set forth by the U.S. Federal Courts to justify both excusable and compensable delay time extension requests. The presentation discusses how these rules are applied, whether submitting or analyzing a time extension request. The presentation also discusses the rules concerning concurrent delay and how the courts hold the claimant responsible for allocating concurrent delay. Finally, the presentation highlights two new court rulings which may be “game changers” concerning delays, time extension requests, and the use of concurrent delay as a defense against liquidated damages.
Who should attend?
- Contractors & subcontractors
- Owners
- Design professionals providing services during construction
- Construction managers
- Attorneys
Why should you attend?
- Be exposed to recent court cases concerning the time extension requests.
- Learn the rules concerning time extension requests.
- Understand the arguments about waiver and apportionment of liquidated damages.
- Become knowledgeable about concurrent delay issues and who must prove and allocate concurrent delay.
- Understand when an owner’s liability for delay is limited or obviated.
- Become more knowledgeable about the use of CPM schedules when pursuing or defending against time extension requests.
- Learn some new rules about when concurrent delay can and cannot be used to eliminate liquidated damages.
Faculty - Mr.James G. Zack
Jim is the Senior Advisor, Ankura Construction Forum™. The Forum strives to be the construction industry’s resource for thought leadership and best practices on avoidance and resolution of construction project disputes globally. Jim was eh founder and Executive Director of the Navigant Construction Forum™. Formerly he was the Executive Director, Corporate Claims Management Group, Fluor Corporation, one of the world’s largest EPCM contractors. Mr. Zack was previously Vice President of PinnacleOne and the Executive Director of the PinnacleOne Institute and a Senior Construction Claims Consultant for CH2M HILL, Inc. Mr. Zack has, for 47 years, worked on both private and public projects throughout the U.S. and in 28 countries abroad. Mr. Zack is a Fellow of AACE International, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and the Guild of Project Controls. In the construction claims field, he is a recognized and published expert in mitigation, analysis and resolution or defense of construction claims and disputes. Mr. Zack is a Certified Construction Manager (CCM), a Certified Forensic Claims Consultant (CFCC) and a Project Management Professional (PMP). Mr. Zack is an internationally recognized author and speaker in the construction claims and disputes arena.