Opinion ID: 1321928
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: 10 progress schedule

Text: The Contractor , immediately after being awarded the Contract shall prepare and submit for the Owner's information an itemized progress schedule giving the sequence and dates for all major stages of the Work. This schedule should also include dates for submission of Shop Drawings and other required submittal data. This schedule must be submitted in such a form and in sufficient detail that it will be satisfactory to the Owner. The Contractor shall thereafter so regulate his operations , plans, working shifts, number of men employed as to maintain a program in accordance with the schedule or such revisions thereof as are approved by the Owner. The Contractor shall make periodic reports to the Owner comparing his actual progress with the progress schedule. The Contractor shall work his men overtime and add additional labor and equipment as is necessary to complete the Work on time or where impossible to complete on time, reduce the delay. Contractor must obtain the written consent of the Owner before scheduling overtime work. [Emphasis supplied]. Pursuant to the foregoing section Brantley prepared detailed schedules setting out in graph form the beginning and completion dates for all construction to be performed on the project. However, Brantley failed to abide by its own schedule, not only with respect to the electrical work of Hunter, but in other phases of the construction as well. Owner's witnesses, Setzler and Collins, address this condition in much detail in their testimony, to include extensive delays in the erection of building slabs, the construction of the concrete building, installation of rolling steel doors, etc. There is nothing in the record to attribute any construction delays to Hunter, or to indicate that Hunter was not ready and able to install conduit on March 2. The evidence is clear that the sole reason installation did not commence on that date was Brantley's failure to complete the roof. When the scheduled March 2 date for commencement of conduit installation passed, Brantley made no move at that time to compel start-up by Hunter. Indeed, the earliest communication after March 2 between the parties, relative conduit installation, was in May, 1981, when Jimmy Hunter advised Sharpton that Hunter needed to get started. This conversation brought about the meeting in May, 1981, in Setzler's office, alluded to earlier in this opinion, which was attended by ranking officials of the three principals involved.