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Schedule Delay Mitigation and Recovery

13 minPRO
4/6

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?