Key Takeaways
- Delays fall into three legal categories (excusable, non-excusable, concurrent) with different contractual treatments.
- Material and decision delays together account for 50% of all construction delays—both are preventable with advance planning.
- Schedule recovery techniques include overtime, parallel tasking, fast-tracking, and material substitution.
- Early detection is the most powerful recovery tool—identify delays in week 1, not week 8.
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Test Your Knowledge
1.What two delay causes together account for 50% of all construction delays?