Services
Three practices, one discipline
Oxley provides construction planning, schedule and cost analysis, and expert explanations suited to the assignment. The technical findings identify their supporting basis and limitations; admission or a particular dispute outcome is not promised.
Construction schedule consulting
Oxley provides construction planning and CPM scheduling while a project is running: baseline schedules, schedule updates, recovery schedules, and schedule reviews for owners, developers, public entities and contractors. Construction schedule consultant services →
General contractors, subcontractors and construction managers
Contractor Construction Administration Services
Schedule preparation and maintenance may document progress, forecasts and events relevant to later technical questions. The available record and contract affect the scope of that work.
- Prepare Baseline ScheduleCPM schedule development and review in relation to the project facts and contract requirements.
- Prepare Schedule UpdatesPeriodic updates documenting progress, forecast assumptions and material revisions.
- Construction Progress MonitoringAssessment of reported progress, project information and relevant forecasts.
- Delay Analysis & Project Progress MonitoringAnalyzing delay events, their supported time effects and the contract administration record.
- Schedule Requirement SpecificationWriting the scheduling specification so it produces a usable record, not a compliance exercise.
- Prepare Time Impact Analysis (TIA)Modeling identified events in a selected schedule, with the time perspective, assumptions and limits explained.
- Prepare Extension of Time RequestsTechnical support for time requests using available schedules and project information.
- Change Order RequestsPricing and substantiating changes, including their effect on time.
- Requests for Equitable AdjustmentA documented claim for the cost and time consequences of a change in the work.
- Estimating AssistanceTechnical estimating and cost analysis for bids, changes and claims.
Developers, Owners & Public Entities Construction Administration Services
Technical review of schedules, time requests and change pricing submitted on your project, with findings explained early.
- Baseline Construction Schedule AnalysisReviewing a submitted baseline, its assumptions and the scheduling requirements.
- Schedule Update AnalysisChecking each update against the last, so drift is caught while it is small.
- Project Progress MonitoringTechnical verification of where a project actually is.
- Time Impact Analysis (TIA)Testing whether a submitted time impact analysis actually demonstrates what it claims.
- Request for Extension of Time AnalysisAssessing whether a time request is supported on the contract and the evidence.
- Change Order Requests AnalysisReviewing change documentation, pricing, schedule effects and contract administration.
- Requests for Equitable Adjustment AnalysisAuditing a request for equitable adjustment against the contract and the record.
- Assistance with Preparation for Schedule Requirement SpecificationsWriting the scheduling requirements so the project produces a record worth having.
- Estimating AssistanceTechnical cost checks on budgets, proposals and disputed valuations.
- DelayTechnical opinions on delay events, schedule effects and related contract administration.
- DisruptionTechnical opinions on productivity effects, including effects without a change in the completion date.
- TerminationOpinion on the circumstances and consequences of a termination.
- EstimatingTechnical estimating analysis addressing scope, quantities, pricing and assumptions.
- RepairOpinion on repair scope, method and cost to restore what was damaged or defective.
- Completion CostsTechnical analysis of remaining work and construction completion costs.
- Construction DefectsOpinion on the existence, cause and cost of remedy of alleged defects.
- Construction Industry StandardsConstruction-practice opinions grounded in the project facts and records.
- Construction Contract AdministrationOpinions on day-to-day administration of contracts and subcontracts from a contractor project manager’s perspective.
- Delay DamagesTechnical analysis of delay-related costs, supporting records and assumptions.
- Contractor, Owner & Subcontractor Damages CalculationsDamages quantification for different roles in the contractual chain.
- Forensic Construction AccountingTracing claimed cost back through the books to what was actually spent.
- Property Damage Expert OpinionsOpinion on first-party windstorm, hurricane and water losses: scope, repair and cost.
- Estimating