Guest Presenters: John Ciccarelli, PE, CPEng, CCP PSP FAACE | Director at J.S. Held and Wayne Seiler, PSP | Associate Director at J.S. Held

John J. Ciccarelli has more than 30 years of experience performing expert dispute resolution consulting and project advisory services for clients in the engineering and construction industries globally. John’s experience includes dispute resolution and litigation support, construction cost assessments and audits, risk management assessments, construction project controls and management, and construction oversight.

Wayne Seiler has over 23 years of commercial building industry experience, providing scheduling, estimating, construction monitoring, project representation, and claims consulting services on behalf of public and private owners, GC and CM firms, trade and specialty contractors, design firms, and sureties on a multitude of project types and across multiple industry sectors.

About the Presentation

Despite all the pre-execution planning done, projects seldom stay on schedule and tend to fall behind for a variety of reasons. Acceleration is one the most ubiquitous mitigation measures for delays.

The presentation will discuss the major ways to implement acceleration measures on construction projects and touch on industry guidelines and planning considerations for encountering acceleration. The presentation will also discuss key methods to approaching time and cost analysis and issues resulting from acceleration, and how to determine the link between causal impacts, acceleration measures, and associated costs. A few examples will be reviewed to better demonstrate the concepts.

Highlights:

• Qualitative Discussion

• What Is Acceleration?

• Acceleration Means & Measures

• Types of Acceleration & Industry Considerations

• Quantitative Discussion

• Time & Schedule Issues

• Cost & Damages Issues

• Source & Analysis of the Data Demonstrating Acceleration

The presentation will be in English