At the planning stage of your project, check if other projects might affect yours.

For example:

• Planned road works in front of the access gate to the site.
• Upgrades of nearby electrical supplies or pipes.

If you don’t allow for these influences, you may get significant delays to your schedule.

Tagged with: delays • influences • interference • site access

Filed under: Construction • Planning • Time

Allow for wet weather days.

You should get a list of the average number of wet weather days for the area of your project (if the project can be affected by the weather). This will allow you to put this into your plans.

The contract should allow you to get extensions of time because of wet weather above the average for that area, and also allow you to claim extra costs for that time.

Tagged with: delays • time extension • variation • wet weather

Filed under: Contract • Planning • Time

If a partly completed project is put on hold (deferred project) by the client, when it is restarted it should be treated as a new project.

This includes reviewing and redeveloping the scope, project plan, schedule, and budget.

The original project team may not be available anymore, so new people will take time to get familiar with the project.

The project should be renegotiated with the client.

Make sure language in the original contract does not say that no additional costs are allowed due to delays, as the client may use that clause to refuse to renegotiate the price.

Tagged with: deferred project • delays • renegotiate • restart

Filed under: Client • Contract • Cost • Planning • Scope • Tender • Time