Contractor warns missed 'fish' and paving windows can trigger large cost increases
A contractor told the committee that small issues that force work outside seasonal fish or paving windows can cause projects to lose a year and significantly raise costs; members asked that schedule risks be flagged in quarterly reports.
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Contractor and committee members emphasized the outsized impact of schedule risk on project cost. Ted Odlin told the committee that delays that force work outside an environmental 'fish window' or a seasonal paving window can be "catastrophic," potentially pushing a project out of season and increasing costs far beyond the dollar value of the triggering change order.
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