Review the following and then analyze the conditions listed below and present how these conditions should be dealt with as claims to an Owner, that is what types of money cost/delay, etc., should be submitted as requests for change orders or claims: a. Base contact- $77,000,000 to build a twenty story building Contract schedule: complete in 300 days Liquidated damages.
b. Contract schedule: complete in 300 days
c. Liquidated damages = $7000/day
d. Owner issued notice to proceed and contractor started work on September 9, 2013
e. Contractor could not access site due to property rights issues until November 20, 2013
f. Excessive rain and storms prevented work from proceeding for one week in November, 2013
g. Excavation contractor did not begin work until December 12, 2013, two weeks after being asked to start work
h. Excavation contractor started work and encountered soil containing cyanide and stopped work.
i. Contractor notified owner of cyanide soil and indicated a change order for time and material costs were required to remove the cyanide soil
j. Owner stopped the work to analyze the cyanide condition
k. Owner issued a change order pricing request after two months of time
l. Contractor responded to the pricing request indicating 3 months of extra time and $2,000,000 of cost was required
m. Owner accepted cost request but denied extra time request