![]() ![]() When they don’t make timely decisions, the baseline schedule network becomes disrupted. Stakeholders are part of the design information ecosystem.Because fast-track schedules put extra pressure on design professionals who were already challenged to produce, and likely not adequately compensated for the extra effort.Some might say “padding,” or “sandbagging,” and why not? As builders wised up, they began to protect themselves by adjusting their bids upward.Many builders used to more readily accept this condition with resignation as a part of doing business. In this way, they are similar to fast-tracking in theory. Projects mobilize with half-cocked documentation all the time. ![]() They also routinely refused to (and some still do) cooperate with CMs, builders and their CPM schedulers managing design deliverables - an oversight they resented. Design professionals simply couldn’t produce timely documentation.Fast-track schedules became prohibitively expensive, especially when they involved Union resources doing shift-work.Because over-budget burdens of general conditions, overtime, expediting, et al, were costs invariably saddled with the builder.They were supplanted with aggressive schedules that contractually put all the risk with builders, and no damage for delay clauses in their contracts. ![]()
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