CPM scheduling support without a full-time hire
For small and mid-sized GCs who owe the owner a P6 schedule but can't justify a salaried scheduler. Baseline, monthly updates and narratives, and TIAs when the job changes. Flat fee, scaled to the project.
GCs who owe a schedule and have nobody to own it
Small and mid-sized GCs
Commercial, multifamily, healthcare, education and municipal jobs where the owner wants real CPM and you have no scheduling department.
CMAR and design-build teams
One schedule for design and construction, with GMP milestones, early packages and design deliverables tied to the dates they gate.
Site, utility, roadway and heavy civil GCs
Weather calendars, phased MOT, utility relocations, DOT or municipal specs. Schedules that carry quantities and crews, not just bars.
GCs taking on VA, USACE or NAVFAC work
Major VA specs require an independent CPM consultant and a cost-loaded NAS baseline before the first pay request. Corps and Navy specs set their own rules. Our federal experience includes independent CPM consulting on a VA medical center and serving as lead scheduler on a USACE project. See federal scheduling.
GCs with one scheduler and too many jobs
Your scheduler is buried. We take the new baseline, updates on two jobs, or the TIA nobody has time for, in your P6 database.
GCs with a claim coming or going
Owner holding payment over the schedule, a sub claiming delay, or liquidated damages on the table. We tell you where you stand. See forensic delay analysis.
What a GC can hire us for
Fixed scope, fixed fee, quoted before we start. Pick one, or retain us as your schedule department.
Owner-compliant P6 baseline
Built to the owner's spec: WBS, coding, calendars, logic, crew and quantity based durations, contract milestones, and cost or resource loading if required. DCMA 14-point check before submittal. Typically 10 to 15 business days from kickoff.
Monthly update program
Field status, remaining durations, critical path and total float review, a three-week look-ahead, and the narrative the spec requires, delivered before the pay app so the two match. Month to month, no lock-in.
Subcontractor schedule integration
Each major sub's durations and sequence go into the master, signed off by the sub. When one slips, the schedule shows whose work moved the finish, your record for a back charge or claim.
Change orders and time impact analysis
A fragnet for each change that hits the critical path, run in the current update as a TIA under AACE RP 52R-06. Day count, exhibit and narrative in time for the notice deadline.
Recovery and acceleration schedules
We isolate what moved the finish and price each way back (resequencing, added crews, shift work, scope changes with the owner) so you can decide to accelerate, absorb or claim.
REAs, claims and claim defense
An REA built on the contemporaneous updates, or defense against a sub's delay claim or liquidated damages. Forensic analysis under AACE RP 29R-03, with expert report and testimony if needed. See REAs and claims.
What a schedule department does each month
Build the owner-compliant baseline
Clean logic and realistic durations, built to the spec.
Run monthly updates and narratives
A narrative every period that keeps the owner paying and your position protected.
Hold the master schedule across trades
Clean handoffs, so a sub's slip doesn't become your delay.
Catch slippage and recover it
Slips flagged early, with a recovery plan and what it costs.
Model change orders and time impact
A TIA per AACE RP 52R-06 ties added time to the change, so you don't absorb the owner's scope creep.
Show up at the OAC
We attend progress and OAC meetings and carry the schedule position.
Where the schedule costs a GC money
We see these forensically, after they get expensive. On the scheduling side we go looking for them from the first baseline, while they are still cheap to fix.
The schedule protects you toward the owner and the subs
Toward the owner
Owner-caused delay documented as it happens: submittal turnaround, design changes, owner-furnished equipment, site access, decisions. Notice letters when the contract requires them, and extension requests built on the current update, not a year later.
Toward the subs
Sub slips isolated in each update so the impact is attributable. Float ownership and schedule compliance language for your subcontracts keeps a sub's delay the sub's problem.
Inside your own operation
One schedule for field, office and pay app on the same data date, with look-aheads that match the master, so a dispute doesn't start inside the company.
In the room
The owner's scheduler or CM gets answers from the person who built the file, not a PM reading a bar chart.
You don't need a full-time scheduler. You need this done right
Scaled to the job, from a one-time baseline to a full monthly program.
Scheduling informed by forensic delay experience
We spent years taking schedules apart. Now we build yours to survive scrutiny
Forensic work showed us how schedules get GCs in trouble: missing logic, soft constraints, a record that won't back you up. We build against that from the first activity, so your monthly schedule protects you if the job goes sideways.
Recent work for general contractors
A sample, not a full list. Names withheld, references available on request.
Municipal sewer reconstruction, New Mexico
Default termination defense and delay claim for the general contractor. Period-by-period as-planned vs. as-built analysis (MIP 3.2) from PDF schedule prints and the as-built XER, isolating owner review delay and a disputed constructive change.
VA medical center, Virginia
Independent CPM consultant for the GC under the VA Network Analysis Schedule spec. NAS-compliant baseline, cost loading and monthly updates tied to progress payments.
Mass burn waste-to-energy facility
Full plant scope: boiler, turbine generator, air cooled condenser, ash handling, and major mechanical, piping and electrical packages. Baseline and updates on the resource and quantity loaded P6 schedule.
Biosolids-to-fertilizer facility
Biosolids receiving and dryer system, granulation plant, and chemical and ammonia storage. Baseline and updates, with subcontractor schedules integrated into the CPM master.
Send the spec. We take it from there
Send the owner's spec and contract dates
Plus drawings or a scope summary, your sub list and any draft schedule.
Kickoff with your PM, super and major subs
One working session, on site or remote, to sequence the job with the people building it. The baseline comes from that session, not a template.
Baseline submitted, comments worked, accepted
DCMA 14-point and spec check first, then we work the owner's comments to acceptance. Every update and claim is measured against that file.
Monthly, in your P6 database or ours
Status call with the super, update, look-ahead, narrative, pay app support. TIAs when a change hits. OAC meetings if you want us there. Cancel any month.
Based in Florida. Scheduling, delay analysis, TIAs, REAs and claim defense for GCs nationwide, done remotely from your files.
Questions we get from GCs
Owe the owner a schedule and no one to build it?
Send the owner's spec or your draft baseline. On a 20 minute call we'll talk through the owner's requirements and price the baseline and a monthly program.