US
Employed as a Project Engineer for a company called Granite Construction
John Livengood has more than 38 years of experience in construction, design, delay analysis and litigation support. He is a registered architect and attorney, with proficiency in architectural design, construction, project management, government contracts, litigation support, mediation, arbitration, and construction litigation. John’s services to his clients have included providing construction cost audits, cost estimation, analysis of change orders, delay and disruption claims, acceleration claims, loss of productivity claims, construction method analysis, and defective design
I have a degree in the classics from UCSD in San Diego. Spent the first 15 years of my career making schedules FOR contractors and the last 20 working with project teams to jointly develop the project schedule. I greatly prefer the latter method. Have completed nearly 500 project scheduling assignments worth an aggregate value of nearly 12 billion dollars. My primary emphasis is schedule setup but I also perform some schedule maintenance on smaller projects. I have conducted seminars in scheduling for ENR top 20 construction contractors.
John Livengood is a Managing Director of Navigant Consulting, Inc.’s Global Construction Practice. Mr. Livengood is an experienced claims expert with more than 37 years of construction related experience. He is a registered architect and an attorney experienced in construction litigation, project management, design analysis, and document preparation.
AZTECH INTERNATIONAL – Dana Point, CA
Program and risk management, earned value, advanced scheduling and software development company.
Program Manager/Earned Value Specialist, 04/10 – Present
For the last 16 years i have been scheduling large capital projects ranging from 60 million to 1.2 billion dollars in value. Working with project teams consisting of project managers, general superintendents, project and area superintendents, office and field engineers I have focused the efforts of the teams on creating a project schedule that meets the specifications and that represents their own plan of attack. I have had the privilege of training a generation of young builders in the art of scheduling.
Moved to president of the company. Spent these 8 years developing a method for training superintendents to build an approvable, accurate schedule that would defend their company but also be a tool for the project. Continued the conversion of all manual scheduling systems onto computerized ones. Sped up updating operations thru inport/export utilities. Developed programs to identify changes beteween subsequent schedules.
Mr. Doughty has overall responsibility for coordinating and developing project schedules for Granite West Large Projects Group during the pursuit process for major CM/GC, design-build, bid-build and projects using Primavera SureTrak, P3 and P5/P6 software.