Delay and Disruption Claims

Strategy, LLC brings extensive experience to the analysis and preparation of construction delay and disruption claims. Strategy’s experts have hands-on experience with the design and construction process that allows them to understand the dynamics of a troubled construction project. This knowledge is essential for critical path schedule analysis, allowing for the identification of the causes of delay, disruption and lost productivity, as well as assigning responsibility and allocating the damages associated with the causes.

Delay Claims

Strategy’s experts are experienced with all types of scheduling software. They utilize all available project information and the latest schedule analysis techniques to identify, analyze and assign responsibility for project delays. Strategy evaluates the effects and impacts of any type of issue that could influence the timely and sequential performance of schedule activities. Among the issues considered are:

  • Changes to the scope of work
  • Weather and environmental conditions
  • Availability and quality of the labor force
  • Availability of material and equipment
  • Owner interference and directives
  • Architect interference and directives
  • General contractor and subcontractor delays
  • Poor quality design documents
  • Differing site conditions
  • Slow response to submittals and Request for Information
  • Multi-prime coordination
  • Availability of financing
  • Poor quality contract administration
  • Regulatory requirements and changes
  • Site access and availability
  • Project scheduling software manipulation
  • Project scheduling errors and/or omissions

Strategy’s experts are able to present their findings in various formats from oral presentation, summary critical path method schedules, and graphical analyses to fully-documented expert reports.

Strategy’s experts are also familiar with the various methods of delay analysis, including but not limited to windows analysis, as-planned vs. as-built, impacted as-planned, and collapsed as-built. Our experts stay current on the various types of methods and their acceptability.
Strategy’s senior personnel also have extensive experience in providing expert testimony in litigation, arbitration, mediation, and before various types of third party decision makers.

Disruption Claims

Strategy’s professionals have found that troubled construction projects result in the delayed, non-sequential and inefficient performance of the project work activities. The disruption to labor productivity increases the cost of constructing the troubled project. Strategy’s experts have analyzed disruption and its effects or impacts on the cost and schedule of projects. By establishing the causes, effects and impacts of disruption, our experts have been able to accurately calculate the time and cost impacts to projects and the resulting damages. Strategy’s senior personnel have also provided expert testimony regarding the attribution of disruption and the monetary damages that result from acceleration, trade stacking, overcrowded work areas, and the performance of weather-susceptible work in periods of adverse weather.