Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• A Claim?
• A Delay Submittal?
An Owner and a
Contractor
have a site meeting to
resolve some open issues.
Dispute Resolution Methods
• Multiple primes, Designers, Owners,
Subcontractors, have a site meeting to
discuss project goal setting
Dispute Resolution Methods
• Avoidance
• Negotiation
• Mediation
• Dispute Review Board
• Arbitration
• Litigation
• Self-help
Avoidance
• Even avoidance isn’t avoidance
• In construction we have lots of reasons to avoid
confrontation
• In construction, 99% of avoided disputes
become bigger – they fester – they don’t
self-resolve
But sometimes
resolution takes
a while …
Negotiation
• Dispute resolution between the parties involving
only the parties
• Casual
– Conversations, emails, texts, phone calls
• Formal
– Meetings, documentation, presentations
• Resolution
– Regardless of how you got there:
Put it in writing
Elevating the Negotiation
Litigation
Closure
? and A
What’s Next?
Delay Claims from the Owner’s and
Contractor’s Perspectives