Determining Contract Working Days
October 28, 2008
Lacey
Course Faculty: G. Scott Williams and Mike Myette
The Contract Working Day Schedule is an important document and plan used to determine the number of contract working days specified in contract documents. The working days specified in contract documents are used by contractors to develop their cost estimate proposal when submitting their bid for the project. Most effective working day schedules are developed utilizing CPM techniques to estimate time, staging, and sequencing of probable contractor operations to accomplish the project plan.
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During this one-day course you will examine the essential elements of developing working days critical path schedules for transportation construction contracts. You will learn the importance of developing a construction strategy work plan and see how big picture issues affect construction sequencing and staging. You will review innovative contracting strategies and, through in-class exercises, work with a team to plan the critical path schedule for a project from beginning to end. An important focus will be on project delay risk factors and techniques for minimizing contractor delay claims.
Course Topics
- Construction strategy work plan development
- Importance of the design/construction team charter
- Understanding scope of the project
- Pre-construction risk assessment
- Purpose of the working day schedule
- Identifying work tasks
- Developing realistic task durations
- Validating the critical path
- Optimizing the construction performance period
- Seven key steps to develop a working day schedule
- Minimizing delay claim impacts
Who Should Attend
The course is intended for state, local, and private sector employees who are or will be responsible for the development of project working days schedules for projects to be let for contract. Those involved are usually project level personnel working in the design, traffic, or construction functions and/or their supervisors.
Continuing Education Units and Professional Development Hours
Course participants will earn 0.7 CEUs/7 PDHs upon successful completion of this course. The CEU is a nationally recognized measure of participation in a noncredit continuing education program that meets established criteria for increasing knowledge and competency.