Time Extension Requests - What Does A Contractor Have To Prove?

Course Description:

All construction professionals, whether a contractor, an owner, a design professional, or a construction manager, 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 time extension requests submitted by contractors. Contractors and CM's at Risk are required to analyze, prepare, justify and submit time extension requests on their own behalf and/or on behalf of their subcontractors. This Time Extension Requests 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.

Areas Covered:

•  You will learn when contractors are entitled to compensable delay and under what circumstances
•  You will also learn the rules concerning the burden of proof concerning delay and what must be proven in order to justify time extensions – both excusable and compensable delays
•  You will be exposed to some common misconceptions concerning concurrent delay and who has the burden of proof concerning concurrent delay
•  You will understand how concurrent delay must be dealt with when a compensable delay is requested
•  You may be surprised to learn when a contractor is not required to justify field and home office overhead costs once a compensable delay have been proven
•  Finally, you will be exposed to two recent court cases, one Federal and the other a State case, that may change the rules of the game concerning the use of concurrent delay as a defense against owner-imposed liquidated damages

Who will benefit?

This webcast will be of a valuable assistance to the below audience.

•  Contractors
•  Owners
•  Design Professionals providing services during Construction
•  Construction Managers
•  Attorneys