Acceleration; critical path; milestones; liquidated damage;
change directives; and change orders. These are terms used in
today's fast-paces construction industry where project delays
have serious financial consequences and parties are required to
perform addition work before the terms upon which the work is to be
performed are agreed.
With a significant number of projects going out for tender with
partially completed drawings, it is not unusual to have hundreds of
change orders and hundreds of change directives issued during the
course of the project, all in an effort to ensure that the project
is completed on time. Unfortunately, when it comes to change
directives, the entitlement to payment for additional work and
adjustment to the contract time are only addressed once a change
order is issued. When this conversion (from change directive to
change order) takes place at the end of the project, a financial
burden and risk of non-payment is places upon the
