Your experiences with construction schedules

  • Erstellt am 2023-06-24 07:52:47

xMisterDx

2023-06-24 16:20:12
  • #1
Apart from that, you shouldn't rely too much on plans. It is normal for a schedule to change again the moment you click "save" or "print".
 

11ant

2023-06-24 16:24:25
  • #2
That you take the hint "Everyone only one cross!" from "Life of Brian" very literally and scatter your construction project across a handful of individual small threads # # # even makes it difficult for me to keep track. As far as I still remember, your case concerns the construction of a single semi-detached house with a still unknown neighboring half. However, whether you are buyers from a developer or builders who freely choose a general contractor, or disguised "builders" with a "general contractor" fixed in the land purchase contract, has presumably remained unclear to me in your fog (although it makes a significant difference for your legal relationship to the general contractor/developer and their construction manager).

If you are builders, the contractor as general contractor is your client, from whom you can also expect information about the construction schedule—preferably through insight into the construction schedule. Then the contractor should be able to grant this insight at any time. If, however, you are buyers from a developer, then granting you any view into the pot is purely an act of goodwill. And for the "third case," that a construction company develops a construction area mixed or hermaphroditically as general contractor/developer, it applies especially that the construction schedule (of the overall project) is a correspondingly dynamic matter. Then, if I were the contractor, I would be crazy to grant you more access than in the form of screenshots of your section and also to charge for this service.

So, in which position of which game are you here, and does your entitlement thinking match that?
 

Bauherrin_987

2023-06-27 13:48:20
  • #3

First of all, thank you for the detailed answer. I actually tried to avoid unnecessary information and to ask my questions in the appropriate forums. That’s why I asked individual questions. This is the first time we are building a house and also my first time using this forum. ;)
We have bought the land and commissioned a construction company to build the house. However, there is no explicit clause in our contract that obliges the construction company to present us with the construction schedule. There is no concrete information about it in the contract.

But your answer and the other answers in this forum have already helped me. Many thanks :).
 

11ant

2023-06-27 15:23:29
  • #4
That the answers have already helped you pleases me. Please also consider the benefit for other readers of the questions and answers, which is diminished if you turn your project into a scavenger hunt. Internal links are allowed, so you can, for example, link to your previous thread each time. The way of thinking about the correct categorization is not wrong, but individual questions are never "wrong" in a compilation thread, especially since in your case it is about a new construction project of an entire house. is also great at making helpers feel like they are searching for kindling, gathering the background information from their threads ;-(

From your answer I gather that you are a land buyer with free choice of the commissioned construction company. However, it is still unclear to me whether this company may also be acting in parallel as a developer in the overall development of the building area (which of course has an influence on their logistics, and thus also on the agility and volatility of the messages given to you about their (intended) approach).

For clients I have advised, general contractors are indeed coordinated regarding the transparency of the construction process expected from them – however, this is not generally customary. The contractor owes you a corresponding information by default, but the form of this must either be negotiated or is treated as secondary as is usual for an unspecified ancillary service.

If I were the GC, I would also have any renegotiation for clarification paid for. The question is always somewhat what it ultimately concerns: whether it is only about your feeling of being in control or about the coordination of the "construction-side" services by you or third parties. So whether you just want to count the Advent candles on the topping-out wreath, or whether your painter or moving company is getting restless. Receiving a real-time logfile of schedule adherence throughout the entire construction period, like a lane keeping assistant, I objectively consider unnecessary. How much subjective information need construction clients have, like co-pregnant fathers, they must know in each individual case (and negotiate in time with their contractor). If he then says, for example, he is a hybrid developer/GC and needs to coordinate with the second soul in his chest, one must be correspondingly more flexible (or choose a pure GC).
 

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