Construction Claims Avoidance

Claims Avoidance ties hand-in-hand with Risk Management.  Claims Avoidance requires attention to operational details by all levels of management.  At Tectonic Systems, LLC we advocate direct assistance to all levels of personnel – mentoring, advising and assisting in the creation of an ongoing knowledgebase and associated skills for each level.

 

Field Personnel

• Recognizing claim situations

• Maintaining job diaries

• Attendance at field meetings

• Job site photos

• Progress schedules

• Productivity records

• Notification requirements

• Change order management.

 

Office Personnel

• Drawing approvals

• Equipment cuts

• Plans and specifications

• Separation of costs

• Record keeping

• Job cost systems

• Special coding for delay related items.

 

Upper Management

• Review of bidding requirements

• Notification requirements

• Record keeping

• Timeliness of claim filing

• Negotiation tactics

• Court action vs. Arbitration or Mediation.

 

All personnel must stay tuned into the ever changing conditions.

• Excessive change orders required

• Constructive changes that will affect schedules

• Schedule slippage and deviation

• Interference by others

• Inspection and testing problems

• Delayed submittal approvals

• Concealed and differing conditions

• Design errors and omissions