Corporate Training By Zack Academy - The Essential Course on Successful Management of Claims and Change Orders

Why Should You Take This Essential Course on Successful Management of Claims and Change Orders?

The Essential Course on Successful Management of Claims and Change Orders puts you on the path to learning the balance required to avoid costly claims and to enjoy successful projects. Construction claims and changes are an inevitable process on a construction project, particularly public construction, infrastructure, heavy, healthcare, energy, transportation, civil and industrial projects. Both owners and contractors are still getting into knots in their approach to managing and controlling claims. Conflicting interests, schedule and budget constraints, the urgency of dealing with day-to-day issues and the varying levels of experience of the project staff leaves open many opportunities for adversarial relationships of the contracting parties.

Who Should Attend This Essential Course on Successful Management of Claims and Change Orders?

• Construction Professionals
• Owners
• Architects
• Engineers
• Contract Managers

The Following Topics Will Be Covered:

• Understand how to identify changes and the importance of notification and documentation
• Learn the intricacies of contract interpretation, differing site conditions and impacts on unchanged work -- review FAR, AIA, EJCDC and ConsensusDoc clauses
• Gain an understanding of what causes delay, disruption and impact - what's compensable and what's not
• Know the fine line between mitigation and compensable acceleration - mitigation of delays is essential
• Find out how to uncover the root causes of lost productivity and show entitlement and quantification
• Uncover best practices for pricing claims
• Learn essential claims presentation and defense techniques, and the importance of the negotiation process
• Evaluate your options when agreements cannot be reached
• Identify termination, bonds and liens and insurance and their roles in the claims process
• Understand the claims and change order process on design-build, GMP, IPD and how they differ from typical design-bid-build

Syllabus

Session 1: Identification and Notification - Keys to Success

Session 2: Project Delays and Time Extensions

Session 3: Contract Interpretation: Insight to the Myriad of Causes of Conflict Arising from the Drawings and Specifications

Session 4: Acceleration and Mitigation of Project Delays: Analysis, Costs and Owner/Contractor Responsibilities

Session 5: CPM Schedule Review and Analysis: The Method of Choice to Support Delays and Time Extensions

Session 6: Subcontractors and Suppliers: Special Issues and Concerns

Session 7: Alternate Project Delivery Claims for Design-Build, GMP and Other Delivery Methods

Session 8: Pricing: Putting the Dollars on the Damages

Session 9: Differing Site Conditions: The Big Game of Shifting Risk

Session 10: Lost Productivity Claims: Identification, Measurement and Recovery

Session 11: Documentation: Best Practices for Identification and Support of Claims

Session 12: Negotiation of Construction Claims and Change Orders

Session 13: Alternate Dispute Resolution: Your Key to Staying Out of Court

Session 14: Termination of Contracts and Subcontracts

Session 15: Bonds and Liens: Protect and Collect

Session 16: Construction Insurance: Claims of a Different Nature