Claims have become just one more aspect of the construction industry. Claims can be as simple as a request for additional compensation for increased quantities to a formal change order. Claims also include requests for time extension and extra money for directed or constructive change orders. Most claims address elements of direct cost, delay, and lost productivity. The Principals of Hanna Consulting Group, Inc. are experienced in preparing professional claim documentation and successfully resolving those claims.
Litigation Support
Hanna Consulting Group works with contractors, owners, engineering firms, government agencies and attorneys in the litigation process as well as expert witnesses of all types of construction claims and disputes.
Coupled with the highest academic credentials and a huge amount of expertise, HCG’s qualified team of professors is equipped to assist you with technical evaluations, up-to-date scientific analyses, expert witness reports, testimony and preparation of cases, and even attendance at trial.
Many of the factors that influence a firm’s ability to achieve project success are outside the direct control of the contractor. When project conditions and circumstances arise that negatively affect a contractor on a job, that contractor is entitled to financial compensation for the losses he/she experiences. The unique characteristics of construction make contract claims a necessary part of the building industry; unfortunately, claims and attempts at recovery of project losses are time-consuming and burdensome on a firm’s employees, income statement, and ability to effectively manage other projects. Hanna Consulting Group can help your company evaluate and prepare a host of different types of construction claims to make sure you receive proper recoveries for losses you have experienced on a contract. Whether the losses are from delays, schedule acceleration or disruption, Hanna Consulting Group can prepare a claim quickly, professionally, and with proven results.
For more information on some of the most common types of claims we handle, please see:
Change Order Impact Claims
Change orders are a necessary part of every construction contract. However, sometimes the size or sheer number of changes is such that the costs attributable to the individual change orders are exceeded due to the cumulative disruptive effect of the changes. This cumulative impact, or “ripple effect,” caused by the size or number of changes is compensable to the contractor
Delay Claims
Construction delays result from a multitude of sources – unforeseen conditions, owner impacts, architect/engineer impacts, contractor impacts, weather, material shortages, labor strikes, etc. The ability to analyze construction delays by determining the primary source or cause of a delay, its resultant cost to each party, and the loss and impact beyond conjecture is a specialty of Hanna Consulting.
Stacking of Trades Claims
Stacking of Trades describes project conditions where multiple trades are working simultaneously in a single work area. Being able to accurately quantify how stacking of trades has impacted a contractor is a difficult task. However, the consultants at HCG have performed multiple investigations into measuring the impact of stacking of trades and the findings of this research have been accepted as the new industry standard for evaluating stacking of trades.
Schedule Acceleration & Compression Claims
Schedule acceleration is defined as an increase in the speed of development or progress from the normal experienced time or optimal time for the type and size project being planned within a given set of circumstances. In conjunction with major specialty contractor organizations, the consultants at Hanna Consulting Group have recently developed new methods for analyzing the typical responses to schedule acceleration of overtime, overmanning, and shift work that is becoming the industry standard.