Float Time Clause Samples
The Float Time clause defines the amount of scheduling flexibility available in a project without affecting the overall completion date. It specifies how much a particular task or activity can be delayed before it impacts subsequent tasks or the final project deadline. For example, if a task has two days of float, it can be postponed by up to two days without causing delays elsewhere. This clause is essential for managing project timelines, as it helps allocate buffer periods, identify critical path activities, and prevent disputes over schedule changes.
Float Time. Float time shall be as prescribed below:
1. The total Float within the overall Master Schedule, is not for the exclusive use of either the District or the Construction Manager, but is jointly owned by both and is a resource available to and shared by both Parties as needed to meet contract milestones and the Project completion dates.
2. The Construction Manager shall not sequester shared Float through such strategies as extending activity duration estimates to consume available Float, using preferential logic, or using extensive crew/resource sequencing. Float time within the schedule is jointly owned; no time extensions will be considered or granted nor delay damages considered or paid until a delay occurs that extends the Work beyond the Substantial Completion date.
3. District-caused delays on the Project may be offset by District-caused time savings (i.e., Critical Path submittals returned in less time than anticipated by the Master Schedule; approval of substitution requests and credit changes which result in savings of time to the Construction Manager). In such an event, the Construction Manager shall not be entitled to have considered or receive a time extension or delay damages until all District-caused time savings are exceeded, and the Substantial Completion date is also exceeded.
Float Time. Show activities on their early dates with corresponding Total Float Time noted beside them.
i. Project Schedule shall not include more than 40 calendar days of Float Time absent City approval.
Float Time. 6.2.10.1 The total Float Time within the overall schedule is for the exclusive use of City, but City may approve Contractor’s use of Float as needed to meet Agreement Milestones and the Project completion date.
6.2.10.2 Contractor will not be allowed to sequence, hide, or reallocate Float Time through such strategies, as extending activity duration estimates to consume available Float, using preferential logic, or using extensive crew/resource sequencing, tec. No time extensions will be granted nor delay damages paid until a delay occurs which extends the Work beyond the Agreement Time.
Float Time. Float or slack is the amount of time between the early start date and the late start date, or the early finish date and the late finish date, of any of the activities in the schedule. All float time contained in the Work shall be shared between the District and DBE, but its use shall be determined by the District. Under no circumstances shall DBE be entitled to maintain a claim against the District for DBE’s failure to achieve either Substantial Completion or Final Completion on a date earlier than that set forth on said Project Milestone Schedule as the same may be adjusted by approved Change Orders.
Float Time. The time available in the Project Schedule during which an unexpected activity can be completed without delaying Substantial Completion of the Work.
Float Time. Not for exclusive benefit of either Contractor or University. Manage work according to early start dates, by commencing activities on early start date (calculated by latest approved Contract Schedule) or earlier if possible, unless constrained by bona fide resource limitation. University may reserve and apportion float time according to needs of Project. Actual or projected University-caused delays that do not exceed available float time shall not have any effect upon Contractor's adherence to specified time constraints and shall not be basis for time extension or additional compensation. G.15.11.2 The Contractor Acknowledges that:
15.11.2.1 Activity delays shall not automatically result in adjustment of specified time constraints,
Float Time. (a) Float is not for the exclusive benefit of either the CONTRACTOR or MSA. The CONTRACTOR shall manage construction according to early start dates, by commencing activities on the early start date (calculated by the latest accepted schedule) or earlier if possible, unless constrained by a bona fide resource limitation. Actual or projected MSA-caused delays that do not exceed available float time shall have no effect on the CONTRACTOR’s adherence to specified time constraints and shall not be a basis for any time extension.
(b) The CONTRACTOR acknowledges that:
(i) Activity delays shall not automatically result in adjustment of specified time constraints.
(ii) A Contract Modification or other MSA action or inaction may not affect existing critical activities or cause non-critical activities to become critical.
(iii) A Contract Modification or delay may result in only absorbing a part of the available total float that may exist within an activity chain of the network, thereby not causing any effect on specified time constraints.
(iv) Pursuant to the above float sharing requirements, use of float released by elimination of float suppression techniques such as preferential sequencing, special lead/lag logic restraints, unreasonably extended activity durations, or imposed dates shall be distributed by MSA to the benefit of MSA and CONTRACTOR.
(c) If the CONTRACTOR wishes to complete construction earlier than the time required, the following shall apply:
(i) The CONTRACTOR shall continue to calculate float based on the construction completion date required by the Contract and Contract Modifications, by maintaining the required Substantial Completion date as a “finish-no-later-than” constraint.
(ii) The completion time for construction shall not be amended by MSA’s acceptance of the CONTRACTOR’s proposed earlier completion date.
(iii) The CONTRACTOR shall not, under any circumstances, receive additional compensation for fees, General Conditions, or Trade Contracts for the period between the time of earlier completion proposed by the CONTRACTOR and the completion time for construction specified as of NTP.
Float Time. The amount of time that a task in a project can be delayed without causing a delay to substantial completion. Force Majeure. Labor dispute, fire, unusual delay in transportation or delivery, unavoidable casualty, flood (assuming CM@R has taken reasonable precautions), earthquake, epidemic, civil disturbance, war, freight embargo, riot, sabotage (by persons other than the CM@R and its Subcontractors or SubCM@Rs), or any other similar act or condition, in each case only to the extent the event in question is beyond the control of and without the fault or negligence of the CM@R. A labor shortage or material shortage is not force majeure. General Conditions. Those costs generated away from the site and that are not directly related to accomplishing the Work.
Float Time. Float time (whether identified in the initial Progress Schedule or in any Updated Progress Schedule) is a Project resource available to both the Contractor and to Owner to meet Milestones and the Contract Time. Use of float suppression techniques such as preferential sequencing or logic, special lead/lag logic restraints, and extended activity times is prohibited.