How We Can Help

Our Approach

To avoid claims, the preferred approach is to become involved during the initial stage of project detailed design or pre-construction phase to mitigate any potential risk. Should the involvement start either during or after construction, the client receives assistance to overcome project delays and disruptions and advices to eliminate potential disputes and claims.
During the pre-construction phase, in place processes and procedures will be established to ensure that claims and disputes are eliminated or mitigated without causing any project delay or budget overrun.
It’s known that a consultant firm is only as good as its consultants. Tamara consultants and partners are industry leaders in their chosen field. Each consultant has a minimum of 20 years’ experience in project management, technically savvy, and an expert in oil, gas and petrochemical construction industry. Tamara Consulting House is equipped to assist clients with the identification and development of the following claim types:

Tamara Consulting House team is available, willing and qualified to tackle the most difficult and challenging aspects of helping the client eliminate, minimize, or resolve disputes or claims in the most economical way.
Tamara Consulting House emphasizes the importance of vigilant record keeping and document management processes necessary to identify, prepare and quantify damages in order to support or defend a claim. The most appropriate industry standard as-built vs. as-planned methods will be selected and conducted for delay claim causation and schedule analysis.
The main objective is to resolve claim disputes between owners, contractors and subcontractors amicably and ensure completion of projects within time, budget, and quality.

Our Methodology

The Claim Resolution Methodology, used by Tamara Consulting House, incorporates a systematic process involving problem identification, document analysis and development of computerized document databases, contract analysis, entitlement analysis, establishment of cause-effect relationships often requiring CPM schedule analyses, and damages analysis and calculations. It identifies the problems which cause cost, quality, and schedule delay on the project. Because of the extensive amount of documentation generated by construction projects and the disputes that arise, Tamara Consulting House often relies on clients to provide documents electronically. This method will provide a cost-effective solution to evaluate the delays, disruption, design changes, and actions and/or inactions of the parties that are central to the disputes being evaluated.

The consultants will examine and review all claims consultation elements such as cost and damage assessment, delay analysis, loss of labor productivity analysis, etc. by adopting concise and objective methodology steps. Working together with a legal advisor, the consultants will establish whether there is expressed or implied contractual entitlement for recovery of the damages caused by the problems that occurred during the history of the project. The entitlement is established through contract language or case law.
The consultants will employ accepted CPM Schedule Analyses including Time Impact, and Windows methodologies all of which consider planned versus actual activity durations, labor and equipment resources, means and methods, logistical constraints, contractual requirements, as well as the actions and inactions of the parties.
The concurrent delays will be analyzed to properly understand the project Owner’s and Contractor’s liability for delay and impact damages. A thorough retrospective schedule analysis of project delays is essential for the equitable resolution of delay and impact-related construction disputes.
The Damages Methodology is based on establishing a Cost and Damage Matrix framework to allocate responsibility for man-hour and cost variances between control budgets and actual man-hours and costs at the cost account, discipline, work activity, and cost type level, if available.
If practical, the consultants would attempt to integrate the schedule activities with the available cost account detail to more accurately establish Cause-Effect Relationships between problems, schedule impacts, productivity losses, and cost overruns.

As a result of cumulative experience in many major industrial projects, the consultants can bring objectivity and balance to the investigation that lead to dispute resolution. Tamara Consulting House value comes from the quality of its analyses and the ability to help parties reach timely and favorable resolutions, oftentimes avoiding expensive arbitrations or litigations.

Tamara consultants provide effective analyses of cost, schedule, quality, and scope, isolating the real issues and their implications. In the event a matter escalates to a formal claim, the consultants are highly experienced in providing the required services and support.

Our Deliverables

Tamara Consulting House construction management consultants have expertise in the preparation and presentation of construction claims. They assist clients in all construction industries by offering strategic insights and support including analysis, quantification, preparation and presentation of claims.

Normally, after reviewing project documents and analyzing all events, the consultants provide a professionally drafted claim report in support of litigation that include planned versus current situation, claim analysis, cost analysis, entitlements, facilitation of resolution leading to equitable settlement, and finally identifying a range of (minimum and maximum) claim amount that need to be settled with the project owner.
The consultants have the knowledge and experience to assist with developing a strategic approach, preparing an effective claim and presenting the claim in a way that will maximize recovery of potential losses. A thorough analysis of project contracts and documentation along with effective written and graphical illustrations of the facts can assist in supporting the client position. The consultants can assist with the preparation and presentation of all types of claims.