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Construction managers and general contractors frequently include provisions in trade contracts and subcontracts granting the construction manager and general contractor discretion to modify the schedule and sequence of the trade contractors’ or subcontractors’ work.
Those provisions usually then go on to preclude or limit any additional compensation for the change in schedule or sequence.
正如一个法院最近观察到的那样：“建筑经理应完全控制项目时间表，以及更改贸易承包商的时间表以有效管理项目是完全合理的。”Electric Machinery Enterprises Inc.诉Hunt Construction Group Inc.（在Re Electrical Machinery Enterprises Inc.），公元前416年801，2009 Bankr。Lexis 2374， *212（Bankr。Ct。M.D。Fla。2009）。
Yet, that same court concluded the construction manager’s “total and complete control,” in fact, was not limitless. The EME court’s analysis is instructive for understanding the boundaries of that discretion.
在EME中，Clark Construction Group Inc.和Construction Twost Manager Inc.在EME中是佛罗里达州奥兰治县会议中心的V阶段经理。三个主要的电力分包商之一是电气机械企业公司，其原始分包价格为14,386,827美元。（EME法院指的是“分包商”，但也指“贸易合同”，因此从决定建筑经理是否充当“构造者”还是“顾问”的决定尚不清楚。）
“... the construction manager’s ‘total and complete control,’ in fact, was not limitless. The limitations of the Rescheduling Clause cannot shield the construction manager from liability for its breach of its contractual obligations to schedule and coordinate the work.”
The initial project schedule was dated November 2000. In August 2001, three days after the electrical subcontractor signed its subcontract, the construction manager issued a revised, compressed schedule.
Although the construction manager thereafter issued new schedule updates, the construction manager began to coordinate the work through short-term look-ahead schedules rather than by the overall project schedule.
最早在签署分包商签署分包的三个月后，由于时间表和协调问题，对信函就开始了可能的额外补偿。电气分包商反对施工经理的时间表，并转发了时间表分析，将施工经理的更新与原始时间表进行了比较，建议压缩，逻辑变化和逻辑不规则。
Disputes grew. Eventually, after completion, electrical subcontractor sued for $538,280 in unpaid contract balance and approximately $11 million in damages for delays and impacts to labor productivity.
该案导致了为期39天的审判，并进行了256页的审判法院意见。
We discuss only one issue in this article: the construction manager’s claimed contractual discretion to modify the sequence and schedule of the subcontractors’ work.
For the defense that the subcontract gave the construction manager discretion to modify the schedule and sequence of subcontractors’ work, the construction manager relied on the following provision (the Rescheduling Clause):
“工作优先级：[施工经理]应在任何时候都有修改项目时间表的权利，以...
