Explore how HPM Consultants brings clarity to complex scheduling,delay and damages disputes.
HPM Consultants was retained to evaluate schedule delays on the San Francisco Flower Market project and determine the actual causes affecting substantial completion. The assignment focused on analyzing contractor delay claims, critical path activities, and whether alleged delays materially impacted project completion.
HPM Consultants performed a forensic window analysis and schedule review to evaluate delay events across multiple project phases. The assessment examined structural work, MEP rough-ins, power installation, permits, procurement activities, and site improvements to determine their effect on project completion.
While the contractor claimed 246 days of delay and over $5.4 million in compensable damages, HPM Consultants’ analysis determined only 36 non-compensable delay days with no compensable entitlement. The findings established the actual schedule drivers and supported a fact-based assessment of completion delays and liquidated damages exposure.
A schedule update is more than a monthly administrative task. It creates a time-stamped record of how the project is progressing, which activities have moved, and where constraints are developing. When a dispute arises, a construction scheduling expert witness in San Diego may rely heavily on those updates to understand how the critical path changed over […]
A delay claim becomes easier to evaluate when the schedule story and the cost story can be traced to the same project events. When owners, contractors, or attorneys need a delay damages expert witness in San Diego, the useful starting point is not a damages total. It is a supported timeline showing what happened, which […]
