Scheduling Considerations of the Estimate

摘要

The site for a new, multibuilding high school project was on a hillside requiring massive grading and rock removal. The buildings were of wood and steel construction and housed six classrooms each. Because of the grading problems, the expected progress of construction would be that the upper units would be graded and constructed first and then the lower buildings. That's the way the project was estimated and this was the general contractor's schedule also. From the outset, there were problems such as the grading contractor declaring bankruptcy, followed by a bankrupt steel contractor.