This paper compares the guidance presented
in AACE International’s Recommended Practice 29R-03, Forensic Schedule
Analysis, with the guidance presented in ASCE’s Standard 67-17, Schedule
Delay Analysis, which was published in August 2017. The paper presents a
brief background on the development of consensus documents by technical
organizations and the relationship of consensus documents to expert
witness testimony. The paper then compares the guidance presented in the
two documents on topics including the endorsement or rejection of
specific techniques, analysis of concurrent delay, negative float and
offsetting delay, and schedule corrections during analysis.