Resource Highlight: MCAA’s Change Orders, Productivity, Overtime—A Primer for the Construction Industry

October 25, 2024

Unplanned events, circumstances and factors may impact a construction project’s outcome, productivity and schedule. MCAA’s Change Orders, Productivity, Overtime—A Primer for the Construction Industry assists contractors in identifying obstacles to a successful project, and proactively managing these obstacles to mitigate or eliminate their impact to the bottom line. It’s just one of MCAA’s educational resources that are free to MCAA members as a benefit of membership.

The primer covers key topics in each of the title areas:

Change Orders

  • How to Identify and Manage Change Orders
  • How to Organize and Submit a Claim
  • Integrated, Cooperative, and Collaborative CPM Scheduling…a Roadmap to Success
  • The Importance of Obtaining the Prime Contractor’s Native CPM Scheduling Files
  • Time Impact Analysis—Measuring Project Delay
  • Identifying, Quantifying and Preventing BIM-Related Cost and Time Impacts NEW
  • Concurrent Delay

Productivity

  • Maintaining Control of Labor Productivity
  • Factors Affecting Labor Productivity
  • Connecting the “Cause” and “Effect” in Loss of Productivity Claims
  • How to Use the MCAA Labor Factors
  • How to Apply the Measured Mile Method of Productivity Analysis
  • How to Estimate the Effects of Cumulative Impacts

Overtime

  • How to Estimate the Impacts of Overtime on Labor Productivity
  • Shift Work and its Effects on Productivity

MCAA members can download it free as a benefit of membership. Printed copies are also available for purchase.

    All content was developed by MCAA’s Management Methods Committee with assistance from industry experts. The committee also publishes a series of Management Methods Bulletins. Visit the Management Methods Bulletins page to explore the full range of available content.

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