Definitions
This term is defined in A201 §8.1.1 as the total time between commencement and substantial completion.
What is Contract Time?
The contractor to prepare this planning tool, which must relate activities to the contract time.
What is the Construction Schedule?
These parties can cause compensable delays under if their actions or neglect impact progress.
Who are the Owner and the Architect.
Weather delays are not automatically granted; instead, they require a claim under this article.
What is Article 15?
This form of damages is pre-established in the contract and does not require proving actual loss and are triggered by a breach of contract.
What are Liquidated Damages?
This date officially “starts the clock” for when Work begins.
What is the Date of Commencement?
The Contractor must create this schedule to allow the architect adequate review time.
What is the Schedule of Submittals?
Delays from labor disputes, fire, delivery issues, or unavoidable casualties fall under this type of delay.
What are delays beyond the contractor’s control?
Contractors must prove weather was abnormal, not anticipatable, and impacted the schedule—these are the burdens for this kind of delay.
What are not anticipatable, abnormal, and had schedule impacts.
This type of damages refers to spillover losses such as reputation impact, reduced bonding capacity, or cash-flow disruptions.
What are Consequential Damages?
The milestone that marks the point when the owner can use the building for its intended purpose.
What is Substantial Completion?
The Contractor must provide this to reach substantial completion within contract time.
What are Adequate Forces or adequate workforce?
Claims relating to time must follow the procedure in this A201 Article.
What is Article 15 (Claims and Disputes)?
Proof of weather delay claims include this.
NOAA Data, third party verification.
These damages compensate for measurable costs such as cold-weather protection, extended general conditions, or lost productivity.
What are Actual Damages?
The unit of time in which Contract Time is measured.
What are Calendar Days?
A201 §8.2.2 states the contractor cannot begin work until this insurance-related condition is met.
What is the Effective Date of Insurance?
This formal process allows extensions through that changes the contract time.
What is a Change Order?
Weather delays usually fall under this risk-related clause restricts recovery to time extensions only, disallowing monetary compensation for delays.
What is a No-Damages-for-Delay Clause?
If Damages for time delays are considered egregious, the Courts may over-rule the contract terms by declaring the Damages as this.
What is Punitive.
Under the AIA Documents for a stipulated sum general contract, this document stipulates liquidated damages and substantial completion.
What is The A101 - Contract for Construction
By signing the contract under §8.2.1, the contractor affirms this belief about the stated contract time.
What is that the time is reasonable for performing the work? or Time is of the essence.
Either the Owner or the Contractor may may recover this as a result of delay.
What are Damages?
Contract schedule float, usually used to accommodate for weather delays, belongs to which entity if not contractually stipulated.
What is the Project for the benefit of either the Owner or Contractor.
In any type of Contract Claim for Damages, which one would take precedence? Actual, Liquidated, or Consequential?
What are All three Equally?