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Title:

Forensic Linear Scheduling for Delay Claim Analysis: Panama Canal Borinquen Dam 1E Case Study

Accession Number:

01590670

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Traditionally, linear scheduling is used as a visual representation of a construction schedule for projects that follow a linear production path with a large number of repetitive activities such as, roads, bridges, pipelines and dams. The linear schedule displays work sequence information similar to that on a critical path method schedule or Gantt chart in a way that is easier and more intuitive to interpret. This paper explores the potential for broadening the applications of this tool for critical decision-making analyses by displaying and correlating information that would be less apparent otherwise. A case study of the use of forensic linear scheduling to quantify delay is offered as an example of for the technique was applied on the Borinquen Dam 1E construction, a 5 million cubic meter (6.54 million cubic yards) earthfill dam constructed by the Panama Canal Authority, as part of the USD 5.2 billion Panama Canal Expansion Program. The case study demonstrates how as-built information can be introduced into a linear schedule for performing forensic claim analysis and support. Variables such as daily rain precipitation, geological conditions at foundation and unattended available areas to work are introduced forensically and clearly identified in a single linear schedule to graphically depict the project’s as-built schedule in a manner that supports the public agency’s defense of a delay claim on the project.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFH10 Standing Committee on Construction Management.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-0557

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Tapia P, Ricardo M
Gransberg, Douglas D

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Identifier Terms:

Panama Canal

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Bridges and other structures; Construction; Marine Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-0557

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 4:23PM