Schedule Quality: Delay Analysis Perspective

Schedule Quality: Delay Analysis Perspective

Yerramreddy, V.A.

Chao-Duivis, M.A.B. (mentor)
Hombergen, L.P.I.M. (mentor)
Prins, M. (mentor)

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Structural Engineering

Construction Management and Engineering

2014-08-29

Forensic schedule analysis is an analysis method that investigates the events of a CPM Schedule. It is recognized that the forensic schedule analysis may potentially be used in a legal proceeding. This means that the claimant for a delay claim might use the forensic schedule analysis to analyze the events of a CPM schedule to prove his entitlement in a legal proceeding. When forensic analysis is analyzing a CPM schedule, the quality of the schedule is of high importance. This means, if the quality of the schedule is good, the outcome of the forensic schedule analysis will be accurate & explicit and thus the following entitlement. If the quality of the schedule is poor, the outcome of the forensic schedule analysis will be poor. If this is the case, then there is a higher risk that the claimant has to pay someone else’s bill too. Whoever is best prepared for this has the best chance for defending his position successfully and has most chance to pay only for his own risks. There are already schedule quality checks existing that help to build good quality schedules in a project management perspective. This research would like to explore schedule quality checks that can be introduced from a forensic analysis perspective with legal considerations. This would help to improve the outcome of the forensic analysis which will facilitate the true entitlement during a legal proceeding. The research focuses on developing technically superior schedules that can stand a forensic schedule to protect ones rights at all times during a legal proceeding for extension of time claims. One has to be best prepared for it to prove their entitlement. This will lead to a set of technical requirements for schedules and an execution methodology to be rolled out on projects. This research is performed at CB&I (EPC contractor), and hence focussed for EPC contractors.

delay analysis
AACE
EPC
forensic analysis
schedule quality
delay and disruption protocol
FIDIC EPC
window analysis

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2014-08-29

Student theses

master thesis

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