Delays & Claims Analysis: Best Practices to Avoid Disputes

Recorded May 13th at 12 PM ET

Best practices to avoid disputes

Construction delay claims are among the most contested issues facing projects today — yet many disputes stem from avoidable analytical failures and poor schedule data management.

This webinar provides a practitioner-level walkthrough of the most widely used forensic delay analysis techniques, comparing their strengths and limitations in the context of real project conditions. Presenters will cover when and how to apply Contemporaneous Period / Windows Analysis, As-Planned vs. As-Built, and a hybrid Half-Step approach, with specific attention to how data quality drives method selection.

Attendees will leave with practical tools to produce cleaner, more defensible analyses - and keep claims from becoming disputes.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the major forensic delay analysis methodologies and understand the practical conditions that determine which approach is most appropriate for a given situation
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Contemporaneous Period / Windows Analysis, including how to recognize when poor schedule data undermines its reliability
• Explain the Half-Step approach and how it bridges Windows Analysis and As-Planned vs. As-Built to produce progress-isolated delay measurement
• Diagnose common schedule data quality problems and understand how modeling techniques can be used to address them
• Apply practical best practices for structuring delay analyses and claims documentation to minimize the risk of escalation into formal disputes