Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts

Edited by Andrew Burr

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CHAPTER 8 Planning and programming

Introduction

8–001 Planning, programming and delay analysis, although allied disciplines, are not one and the same. In principle, planning is very much an art form, similar to designing

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an intellectual application. It requires experience, vocabulary, communication and imagination and, at its highest, provides the logistic formula for the difference between the achievement of predicted desire and chaos. Programming is a mixture of art and science, involving the interpretation of the results of planning usually, these days, in a database of programming software, which facilitates the fast and efficient manipulation of the planning data. The results can then be produced in an infinite variety of formats for the purpose of decision-making during the course of the works. Delay analysis, on the other hand, is the use of the historical planning, programming and progress material as a factual basis for the calculation of the effects of change and the rights and liabilities which flow from them.

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