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Victor Hotel

Victor Hotel

TRAUNER provided claims analysis services for the contractor during the $14M renovation and restoration of the historic Victor Hotel in Miami, FL. TRAUNER performed a delay analysis for the project, which included refurbishing the historic Victor Hotel and building new hotel structures attached to the existing building. Numerous changes to the project resulted in additional costs and project delays. The contractor was ultimately terminated for cause. The contractor decided to dispute the termination and wanted to recover delay related damages, lost profits, unpaid change orders, and other associated damages. TRAUNER prepared an as-built project schedule, performed a detailed delay analysis, and provided expert testimony at arbitration. The arbitration award was a favorable one for our client.

 

Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University

This project consisted of the $28.8M revitalization of Philadelphia University’s campus. The General Contractor alleged that the steel fabrication and erection work performed by their steel subcontractor delayed the completion of the project. The steel subcontractor stated that it was not responsible for the delays due to the lack of timely design information provided by the General Contractor during the design and fabrication phase and because its work was otherwise performed timely.  The steel subcontractor requested payment of its remaining balance, $175,717, and compensation for extra work, $163,888.  The General Contractor requested $1.2M for delay damages of which $600K represented a claim from an electrical subcontractor for inefficiencies they encountered as a result of its alleged efforts to mitigate delays. TRAUNER was hired by counsel for the steel subcontractor and performed an independent evaluation of the contemporaneous project schedules submitted by the General Contractor to determine the critical project delays.  We also critiqued the inefficiency analysis performed by the other parties. The goal of these analyses was to determine if the steel subcontractor was responsible for any critical delays and, if so, to what extent.

 

Cordova Energy Center

Cordova Energy Center

TRAUNER analyzed a $40M claim submitted by the Contractor responsible for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of a $208M, 530-megawatt combined cycle power plant in Illinois.

After the Contractor fell behind schedule significantly, TRAUNER was called in to analyze the project. The Contractor submitted a significant claim for lost labor productivity for overtime. The owner cited poor management, oversight, and performance of the welders as one of the core issues that led to the project delay.

TRAUNER’s comprehensive report provided the owner and its attorneys with a detailed analysis of claims, which alleged owner responsibility for delays, acceleration, labor inefficiency, and weather impacts.  The analysis addressed entitlement, analyzed impacts, and not only critiqued damage calculations provided by the EPC contractor, but also presented alternative calculations that employed preferred methodologies and contemporaneous documentary support.  Our thorough understanding of the project and its issues resulted in the client requesting support during preparation for depositions prior to the hearings, and cross-examinations during the arbitration proceedings.

Work on this project was performed within a very short timeframe, due to an unusual ruling by the panel that resulted in the owner receiving the contractor’s seven expert reports only six weeks prior to the start of the arbitration.

Alameda Corridor Rail Program

Alameda Corridor Rail Program

The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA) oversaw the design and construction of one of the country’s largest infrastructure projects, including the first consolidated railroad link expressway of its kind, the Alameda Corridor.

The 20-mile-long, $2.4B corridor consolidates 90 miles of track and four branch lines into a single line and links the two San Pedro Bay ports to key rail yards near downtown Los Angeles. The corridor crosses or borders ten cities, and its construction eliminated more than 200 rail and street intersections, eased traffic congestion and reduced air and noise pollution. During construction, contractors dealt with contaminated sites, significant archaeological findings, multiple rail and utility districts, and differing site conditions. Hundreds of subcontractors and thousands of employees participated in the construction of this project, which included one of the largest design-build contracts ever awarded to a single contractor, $760 million for construction of the 10-mile Mid-Corridor.

Trauner  was selected by ACTA to provide REALTIME Claims Management services, which included: contract document review, including development of “claims resistant” bid and contract documents; project monitoring and oversight; consultant performance audits; master schedule review and updates; evaluation of contractors’ baseline schedules, updates, and requests for time extensions; evaluation of proposed change orders; development and presentation of project-specific training courses to construction administration personnel on understanding and implementing contract provisions, change order management, claims avoidance, and dispute resolution; and the development and implementation of claims avoidance and mitigation strategies.

Trauner regularly verified each contactor’s schedule updates, resulting in no disputed time-extension issues. This schedule review and

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