In August of 1998, Tulane University contracted FoxCor to review all outstanding change order requests and to perform a review of the Contractor. FoxCor’s services were necessitated by the General Contractors submission of damages for delays claim for approximately $200,000 and an addition of 6 months to the Contract Time. Initial review by FoxCor determined that the monthly schedule submissions did not meet with the Contract requirements and relationships contained within the schedule were inconsistent from month to month making the schedule unreliable in determining delays to the construction process. FoxCor also determined that some of the costs included in the claim were non reimbursable by terms of the Contract. The General Contractor reduced his claim to approximately $30,000.







FoxCor’s review of the pending change order request revealed that the General Contractor was a mere pass through for subcontractor and little review had been performed on change order requests prior to their submission to the Owner. In all FoxCor reviewed over $750,000 in change order requests and negotiated a total savings to the Owner in excess of $200,000.

In addition to the aforementioned problems, the Architects Contract contained a sunset clause which made it possible for the Architect to bill as additional services all work performed after the date set forth in the sunset clause of his Contract. FoxCor was asked as an additional service to review the Architects Contract and negotiate with the Architect to final resolution. After completion for the negotiations FoxCor returned a savings to the Owner of $150,000 in design fees from the initial request of the Architect.

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