Construction delays are slow downs in traffic (sometimes slowing to a complete standstill) required for a construction project to complete some stage of the job. Cranes are essential in large construction projects, such as this skyscraper Construction on the North Bytown Bridge in Ottawa, Canada. ...
Construction delays in residential and light construction are most often the result of miscommunication between contractors, subcontractors, and property owners. These types of misunderstandings and unrealistic expectations are usually avoided through the use of detailed critical path schedules, which specify the work, and timetable to be used, but most importantly, the logical sequence of events which must occur for a project to be completed. Delays in construction projects are expensive, since there is usually a construction loan involved which charges interest, management staff dedicated to the project whose costs are time dependent, and ongoing inflation in wage and material prices.
However, in more complex projects, problems will arise that are not foreseen in the original contract, and so other legal construction forms are subsequently used, such as change orders, lien waivers, and addendums.
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A construction contract and performance bond, construed together, permitted the project developer (bond obligee) to recover from the surety for delay damages, resulting from the delays by the bonded contractor; the developer could not, however, recover compensatory or punitive damages from the surety, under tort theories based on the surety's bad faith.
A clause in a subcontract prohibiting the subcontractor from recovering damages for delay from the general contractor unless the owner was liable to the general contractor for such damages, precluded the subcontractor from recovering from the general contractor while the general contractor's claim against the owner for similar damages was pending.
The court denied delay damages to the contractor, however, finding as a matter of fact that the government-furnished equipment was not actually required until the end of the project, denying the delay damage claim because the governments' delay was not the "sole cause" of the delay.
When a significant owner caused, constructiondelay such as the RW 11 design conflict occurs, the contractor is not necessarily required to conduct all of his other construction activities according to his pre-delay schedule, and without regard to the changed circumstances resulting from the delay....
The BCA thereby shifted to the owner, once a prima facie delay case was presented, the burden of proving that the contractor could not have avoided the alleged concurrent delay had the owner-caused delay not occurred.
Similarly, in a dispute involving construction of a chlorination facility for a water treatment plant, the District of Columbia Contract Appeals Board rejected the public owner's assertion that the contractor was responsible for concurrent delays.
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