CCDI is a small company with a national practice. We are "right-sized" to provide our clients with close personal attention and fully support multi-million dollar claims anywhere in the country. Our specialty is the preparation and/or analysis of delay, disruption, and acceleration claims for Contractors, Subs, Owners, Architects, Engineers and Sureties.
We have effectively and persuasively presented the conclusions of our analyses through expert testimony in mediation, arbitration, and litigation. The results of our efforts meet and often exceed our clients' expectations.
We establish budgets and work within them, at reasonable hourly rates.
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INVESTIGATION & ANALYSIS |
- Examine and assemble relevant documents
- Interview project participants
- Establish reasonable As-Planned Schedule
- Identify alleged delay issues
- Prepare As-Adjusted Schedule series
- Extract As-Built Schedule data from project records
- Prepare As-Built Schedule
- Compare As-Planned & As-Built Schedules to As-Adjusted Schedules
- Establish cause for variance between As-Planned & As-Built Schedules
- Identify party responsible for delay
- Allocate delay caused by project participants
- Calculate & plot As-Planned resource requirements
- Calculate & plot As-Built resource expenditures
- Identify periods of overtime and multiple-shift work
- Identify areas & extent of disputed work & out-of-sequence work
- Identify and quantify unusually severe weather conditions
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DOCUMENTATION OF EFFECT |
- Measurement and Calculation of
- Increased & extended job site and home office overhead
- Loss of productivity or efficiency
- Owner’s actual damages
- Costs caused by disrupted work
- Acceleration costs
- Costs caused by adverse weather/abandonment/wrongful termination
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NEGOTIATION, MEDIATION, ARBITRATION, LITIGATION |
- Prepare summary background of project and claim
- Develop liability for claim issues
- Prepare & present summary charts, exhibits & visual aids
- Assist counsel in recommending negotiation strategy
- Prepare expert reports required by federal and state courts
- Present and refute technical evidence by serving as expert witness
- Present and refute damage calculations by serving as expert witness
- Develop interrogatory questions under attorney direction
- Assist with depositions under attorney direction
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STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL RECOVERY AND/OR DEFENSE |
- Investigate and identify claim issues
- Assemble documentation and prepare issue narratives
- Prepare issue fragnets
- Prepare As-Planned / As-Built schedule comparison
- Prepare As-Planned / As-Built resource comparison
- Prepare As-Adjusted schedule analysis
- Quantify and allocate delay, disruption and acceleration
- Prepare delay, disruption and acceleration report
- Identify and calculate delay, disruption and acceleration damages
- Prepare claim document
- Negotiate, mediate, arbitrate, and litigate
- Successful recovery/defense
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