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Planning & Scheduling

Modeling the Project Plan

In a world where 98% of large, complex construction projects incur cost overruns and delays, scheduling and planning play an essential role in containing a project. An effective schedule is used as a guide by the entire project team and starts with interactive planning meetings involving all stakeholders. The schedule outlines the plan and is continuously updated to reflect actual progress, incorporating changes along the way. The impact of change orders and unexpected delays are assessed using Time Impact Analysis (TIA). Effective schedule analysis is used to guide decision-making, develop alternative scenarios, anticipate problems, identify risks and recommend solutions.

Schedules can be enhanced with cost and resource data and connected to project blueprints to create a time-progressed virtual construction site with 4D and 5D schedules.

Scheduling Specialties

Baseline schedule development and review
Weekly/monthly CPM schedule maintenance
Time Impact Analysis of changes
Project progress documentation
Critical path analysis
Resource and cost loading analysis and recommendation
Training in Primavera P6 software
Schedule risk analysis

A third-party planning scheduler is neutral and will investigate delays and risks that are often missed when self-performing schedules.

INNOVATION

Collaborative Scheduling

With past clients, CM Solutions has used a progressive collaborative scheduling technique, where we support both the contractor and owner to:

Improve timeliness of data
Allow the team to act on changes more quickly
Provide cost savings for shared resources
Create shorter schedule update cycles
Ensure quality and trust in schedule results through collective agreement in schedule changes