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Contractor warns missed 'fish' and paving windows can trigger large cost increases
Summary
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.
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.
"If it throws us into an area where we're out of the fish window and we lose a year because of that, it's catastrophic," Odlin said, stressing that a modest‑sized change that causes long delays often has a much larger fiscal impact than the change itself. Members asked staff to ensure the quarterly template highlights schedule risks and explains how such delays might affect budget and completion timing.
