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The Washington State Department of Transportation
Industry: Government
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A written document between the owner and the contractor signed by the owner and the contractor authorizing a change in the work or an adjustment in the contract sum or the contract time. A change order may be signed by the architect or engineer, provided they have written authority from the owner for such procedure and that a copy of such written authority is furnished to the contractor upon request. The contract sum and the contract time may be changed only by a change order. A change order may be in the form of additional compensation or time, or less compensation or time (known as a deduction from the contract); the amount deducted from the contract sum by change order.
Industry:Business services
A group of persons organized for some purpose or to perform some type of work within an enterprise.
Industry:Business services
A change order proposal is the written document before it has been approved and effected by the contractor and the owner. A change order proposal can be issued by either the contractor or the owner. The change order proposal becomes a change order only after it has been approved and effected by the contractor and owner.
Industry:Business services
See resource-limited schedule.
Industry:Business services
A method for depicting interrelationships among a group of persons working together toward a common objective.
Industry:Business services
A written document issued by the owner requesting an adjustment to the contract sum or an extension of the contract time; generally issued by the architect or the owner’s representative.
Industry:Business services
A bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods. Resource availability may be depicted as a line for comparison purposes. Contrasting bars may show actual amounts of resource used as the project progresses.
Industry:Business services
A product, result, or service generated by a process. May be an input to a successor process.
Industry:Business services
Requests to expand or reduce the project scope, modify policies, processes, plans, or procedures, modify costs or budgets, or revise schedules. Requests for a change can be direct or indirect, externally or internally initiated, legally or contractually mandated, or optional. Only formal, documented, requested changes are processed and only approved change requests are implemented.
Industry:Business services
Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions (start and finish dates) are driven by resource constraints (e.g., limited resource availability or difficult-to-manage changes in resource availability levels).
Industry:Business services