Schedules provide a platform for communicating, executing, reporting, and presenting a baseline for project progress and performance measurement.
Schedules also provide a platform for collecting and recording project progress, processing payment applications, and for analyzing project alternatives and decision making.
We provide identification of schedule design key components for translation of the execution strategy into a well developed schedules.
Well designed schedules support cost and schedule forecasts with appropriate level of detail to enable effective project management.
We insure schedule development alignment with the project control plan that establishes how project performance will be measured and assessed, including rules of credit for measuring progress, and the procedures for evaluating progress and forecasting remaining durations.
Results of our schedule development are effective platforms for controlling, monitoring and reporting project progress and performance measurement.
We prepare baseline CPM schedules, based on the contract scope of work requirements, contractual deadlines, procurement plan, resource availability, construction equipment availability and subcontracting plan to ensure its alignment with project objectives.
We provide progress measurement for effective project performance monitoring promptly identifying any deviation from the plan and addressing corrective action.
We provide Schedule Updating, Trending and Forecasting pointing out deviations, variances and trends to promote timely completion of the project.
As work progresses, we may prepare periodical control schedule updates based on actual progress including:
Properly statusing a CPM schedule is critical to correctly report project progress, as well as forecasting project completion.
Schedule updates are a vital medium of communication from the contractor to the owner about project status, completed work to date and forecasts for project completion.
Our approach ensures that an agreement is reached between the parties regarding schedule status which is vital for the assessment of the impacts of trends, deviations and changes on project schedules.
Identification of root causes of variances and their impact on the project.
Support key positions in identification and implementation of corrective actions (acceleration/recovery) to mitigate or correct variances if they are not acceptable.
Trend determination and quantification based on past performance to avoid delays or lost opportunities to gain savings
Forecast future variances based on quantified trends.
Preparation of recovery schedule for recovering time lost on the Project.
Preparation of prospective Time Impact Analysis to support change order request or to support various internal what-if scenarios.
Deviations, variances, and trends are the first indications of potential changes and must be tracked and properly dispositioned to ensure that they do not result in changes to contract scope, schedules, and or budgets. We can establish a viable trending, forecasting and change control procedures to improve the ability of the project to deal with these changes.
We can prepare Prospective Time Impact Analysis (TIA), a forecast designed to facilitate a timely contract adjustment prior to the changed and otherwise impacted work being completely performed, and requests for time extensions for owner approval.
We can also prepare Prospective Time Impact Analysis (TIA) for contractor internal purpose. This are various what-if analysis of the potential or most likely results of alternatives being considered by the contractor in terms of means and methods of completing the project.