Phased Root Cause Analysis: A distinctive view on construction claims

Construction claims analysis is an often complicated process that seeks to answer a few simple questions: What happened? Why did it happen? What was the impact and root cause of schedule and cost variance? Who was responsible? The methodology used to arrive at these answers has a very significant effect on their usefulness in achieving the desired outcome in the dispute resolution process. Phased Root Cause Analysis (PRCA) is a methodology developed and refined in a wide diversity of applications, and shown to be effective on projects of virtually any size. In addition to providing answers in dispute resolution, PRCA also has great utility when used in a proactive manner to help protect projects which may be potentially vulnerable to claims. It is a distinctive methodology that, when employed by knowledgeable, experienced practitioners, provides a proven means to delve beneath the superficial to the underlying causes of cost and schedule variance. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]