EOT Broadline

Mmmmmm....



Looks to me as if you are just playing with words! Bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic! Doesn’t seem to change the fundamental premiss that was there in the first place.

But if you are happy, then I am happy!! ;-)



Cheers,



Stuart



www.rosmartin.com

Irfan,



The schedule to be used on an EOT analysis depends on when the issue related to entitlement occured.If the change or reasons out of the Contractors controls happened before progress of work then you could use the baseline.But if it happened after 10 months of the project,the impact due to the issue is analyzed with the latest update (at that time point).The Clause 14 or clause 19 programmes are referred to construction schedule with is baseline and periodic updates "approved by the owner" .



Thanks,



Rajeev

That’s the same suggestion which I made to you



Cheers

Hi Irfan,



Yes, Andrew and Clive are both correct in that your claims for EOT should be based on current schedules. The Baseline Schedule is simply that: a fixed base from which to measure any future impact on the Schedule.



The CP on your Baseline Schedule will not of itself provide an EOT entitlement simply because it will (or should!!) show that the project will complete on the due completion date. However, any instructions from the Client or his Engineer that changes the logic and/or sequence and/or duration of your work activities, may well have an impact on your CP and extend the date of completion accordingly.



Which goes back to the answer of your original question below: the Engineer is stating the obvious, since you cannot be awarded an EOT unless it is driven by a lengthening of the CP!!



Hope this helps,



Stuart



www.rosmartin.com

Hi Irfan



Having gone through your postings regarding EOT and Provisional Sum, it has been observed that all your disputes regarding EOT and Provisional Sum have been addressed repetitively in this Forum.



Furthermore, it is clear from the said postings that your Contract stipulations are self sufficient on these issues:



a)     Preparation of EOT

b)     Submission of EOT with fully substantiated documents and submission period

c)     Engineer’s Comments

d) Defense of EOT by Contractor



so better to read all clauses related to EOT very carefully which will give you best resolution of all your disputed issues.



Beyond your contractual limitations, you get nothing.

Irfan,



Go out and buy your planners a good book on Time Impact Analysis and get them to apply the principles of it DURING the contract - (which is actually only good practice for forward planning in trying to evaluate the effects of events as they crop up) - and you will see the error of just using the baseline programme critical path for the evaluation of EOT’s.

The only thing I can see to clarify or have recognised is that the critical path is a moving target and therefore an original non critical activity may become critical.



Common sense to those who know but I could see an Employer arguing that it only applies to those activities in the baseline programme. He’d be wrong, but that might not stop the arguement.

Irfan,



Since it is unlikely that an EOT will be granted unless the Critical Path is affected, I don’t see anything particularly wrong with the Engineer’s suggestion; in fact, his wording as you present it could mean that you would be entitled to an EOT even for a non-excusable delay!!! ;-)



I don’t see what great advantage there is to the Contractor by modifying the sentence to include for float!



Stuart



www.rosmartin.com

Hard to comment on one sentence but I’m guessing you wish to add something like:



No extension of time would be granted unless it is falling on Critical Path or where an employer event causes a non critcal activity to become critical