GENERIC METHODOLOGY FOR ANALYZING DELAY CLAIMS

It is common for a construction project to encounter delays. Several things can contribute to delaying a project. Analyzing the various causes that contribute to a project's delay is an important task to resolving it. Determining, in a scientific manner, the impact, timing, and the contributing effect of each of those causes to the overall delay should assist in helping the parties settle the delay without litigation. Project participants are becoming more aware of the high costs and risks associated with delay claims and their litigation. Thus, the construction industry needs to develop methodologies and techniques to prevent and more efficiently resolve delay claims. While many practitioners have been following some kind of a methodology for analyzing delay claims, a written exposition of such a methodology is not widely available in the literature. Thus, this paper presents a written exposition of a generic methodology for analyzing delay claims. This methodology has been developed and successfully used in various projects to resolve delay claims. The developed methodology will be illustrated through its application in those projects. Moreover, this methodology shows that while there are several techniques for analyzing delay claims, very few of these can be considered adequate. The use of such an adequate technique is a key in obtaining a fair allocation of the delay responsibility. The paper's methodology utilizes one of these few adequate techniques for analyzing delay claims.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Kartam, S
• Publication Date: 1999-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 409-419
• Serial:
  • Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
  • Volume: 125
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-9364
  • EISSN: 1943-7862
  • Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jcemd4

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Construction; Construction scheduling; Delays; Litigation; Loss and damage claims; Pipelines
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Highways; Law; Pipelines; Terminals and Facilities; I10: Economics and Administration; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00779699
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 23 1999 12:00AM