Improving Change Order Management to Avoid Extra Costs - Part 2 (Video on Demand)

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In Improving Change Order Management to Avoid Extra Costs – Part 2, you'll learn ...

• Methods for dealing with increased change orders and claims in difficult economic times
• How to minimize cost growth and delays through better change order management
• Leading practices to avoid disputes and reduce extra costs
• Change order management tips and strategies presented by industry experts

Overview

This 4-program series focuses on improving change order management to avoid extra costs. This course covers Sessions 3 and 4 of the series: Project Cost and Damages Analysis and Issue and Dispute Resolution.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Increased recommended pricing and cost limitation provisions for contracts
• Cost and accounting analysis of contractor change orders and claims
• Guidelines on negotiating mark‐ups, profit levels and delay damages
• Identifying common flaws and shortcomings in contractor claims
• Establishing effective project dispute avoidance and early resolution procedures
• Negotiation techniques to break through impasse on the project
• Implement claim and expense outcome assessments for better settlement decision‐making

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 16 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.