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entered into various construction contracts with various general contractors on

ID: 338651 • Letter: E

Question

entered into various construction contracts with various general contractors on a very large, complex project. After the job was completed, Piskun Construction, one of the contractors, sued Johnston, the owner, because progress was delayed by the gross incompetence of one of the owner’s CMs, by the owner’s frequent replacement of its CM and other job-related support staff, the CM’s failure to properly coordinate the work of the various contractors, failure to eliminate work redundancies and overlaps within its contractors’ work that required redoing and revising a lot of work and extensive delay of the project. You can assume damages.

               a. What type of delay is this?

               b. Who is responsible to pay the damages?

Explanation / Answer

entered into various construction contracts with various general contractors on a very large, complex project. After the job was completed, Piskun Construction, one of the contractors, sued Johnston, the owner, because progress was delayed by the gross incompetence of one of the owner’s CMs, by the owner’s frequent replacement of its CM and other job-related support staff, the CM’s failure to properly coordinate the work of the various contractors, failure to eliminate work redundancies and overlaps within its contractors’ work that required redoing and revising a lot of work and extensive delay of the project. You can assume damages.

               a. What type of delay is this?

               b. Who is responsible to pay the damages?