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Effective Management Guide for Construction Projects

Learn about preconstruction meetings, handling change orders, roles and responsibilities, do’s and don’ts, and ensuring reimbursement for additional work in construction projects.

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Effective Management Guide for Construction Projects

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  1. Section 12 Under Construction

  2. Your role as the owner • What to expect at the preconstruction meeting • Do’s and Don’t during construction • How to handle change orders

  3. The Preconstruction Meeting • Why do we have to do this? • The preconstruction meeting gives everyone involved a chance to sit down, discuss the specifics of the project and voice their concerns, so that all have a clear understanding of what is going to happen.

  4. The Preconstruction Meeting • Who will be there? • Your engineer - to run the meeting. • authority members • the contractor • the contractors sub’s • the testing lab • airport tenants that will be effected • Aeronautics and/or FAA

  5. The Preconstruction Meeting • What will we talk about? • Roles and responsibilities of the main parties (Sponsor, Engineer, Contractor, Aeronautics, FAA) • Scope • Schedule and coordination • Observation and testing • SAFETY!

  6. Do’s and Don’t during construction • Do’s • Stay in the loop • Keep lines of communication open • Attend the meetings • Talk to your engineer • Keep an eye on your costs • Pay your bills promptly

  7. Do’s and Don’t during construction • Do’s • Authorize someone to sign for the authority • Send in project costs • Set up a system and keep track of your paperwork.

  8. Do’s and Don’t during construction • Don’t • Tell the contractor what to do • Sit on progress estimates or statements of cost • Ask the contractor to do “little projects” • Give up

  9. Change Orders • Why do we need a change order? • A change order revises the contract to establish quantities and unit costs for work that was not in the original contract

  10. Change Orders • What does a change order look like? • It describes the additional work. Many times this requires a drawing be part of the change order • It explains the reason for doing the additional work • It establishes the cost of doing the additional work • It revises the contract time

  11. Change Orders • What do we need to do to make sure we are reimbursed for this additional work? • Provide an unsigned copy for review • Provide an independent estimate of cost • Needs to be within 10% • Get verbal approval • Under $10,000 Aeronautics can approve • Over $10,000 requires FAA approval

  12. Under Construction Questions?

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