Project Owners

Independent schedule answers for the decisions owners make

Accept the baseline, approve the update, answer the claim, report to the board. The contractor's scheduler works for the contractor. We work for owners, developers, agencies and owner's reps, from one review to ongoing oversight of a multi-contractor program, without adding staff. Flat fee quoted up front.

PSP certified Primavera P6 Independent review Owner's master schedule Forensic delay analysis DCMA 14-point AACE RP 29R-03
What we deliver

What an owner can hire us for

Fixed scope and fee, quoted before we start. Hire us for one decision, or keep us on for the life of the program.

Baseline acceptance review

Tested against your spec, the DCMA 14-point check and a full logic audit before you sign off. A memo lists the corrections to require. Five to ten business days.

Monthly update oversight

Every update, before you approve the pay app: progress against work in place, critical path movement, float burn and quiet logic changes. One page, green, yellow or red. Three business days.

Owner's master schedule

For programs with more than one contract. Every contractor's P6 schedule integrated into one network with interface milestones, owner-held activities and the overall opening date, updated monthly with the driving interfaces called out.

Executive and board reporting

A concise monthly memo for leadership or the lender, with technical backup behind it: milestone status, critical path trend, production against plan, and the decisions needed.

Embedded owner-side scheduler

A scheduler on your side every week without a full-time hire. We work inside your team and process, run the master schedule, and hand off a clean record.

Schedule spec for your contract

A Section 01 32 00 CPM spec for your contract: what the contractor submits, when, in what format, who owns float, and how time extensions are proven.

Delay claim evaluation

When a time impact analysis or extension request lands, we test the method, check the fragnet against the record, isolate concurrent delay and separate their delay from yours, so you respond from analysis.

Recovery schedules and liquidated damages

Whether the recovery plan is achievable. If the job finishes late, the driving delays, approved extensions and concurrency analyzed against the contract milestones, so the liquidated damages decision rests on the record.

Expert reports and testimony

If a dispute goes to mediation, arbitration or litigation, the analyst who reviewed the updates can write the expert report and testify. See expert reports and testimony.

How it works

Send the file. Get a straight answer

1

Send what you have

The schedule clause, the baseline and updates in native P6 (XER) or Microsoft Project, narratives, and any claim or recovery schedule. PDFs only? Send those.

2

Fixed fee, agreed first

A flat fee quoted before we start. Reviews and claim evaluations are per engagement. Ongoing oversight and master schedule work is a monthly fee sized to the program.

3

A memo you can act on

An executive memo first, technical backup second: the findings, their schedule and contract implications, and the decisions or responses needed. Forwardable to the contractor or counsel as is.

4

A 20 minute call to close it

We walk you through the memo and answer what your PM or board will ask. You keep your PM and your process, and we don't contact your contractor without your authorization.

Based in Florida. Scheduling, review, claim evaluation and expert work for owners nationwide, done remotely from your files.

Owner-side proof

Recent owner and program-side work

A sample, not a full list. Names withheld, references available on request.

Program / Infrastructure

Rail and infrastructure program, Florida

Program-level schedule, change and delay oversight across four construction zones and multiple contractors: an airport intermodal station, 35 miles of new corridor, a 129 mile upgrade in a live right of way, 37 bridges and 156 crossings.

Owner / Healthcare

Healthcare schedule support, Florida

Independent review across multiple healthcare projects in Central Florida, South Florida and the Gulf Coast. Progress validation and risk flagged from sequencing, trade stacking and duration changes.

Owner / High-Rise

Luxury high-rise, Miami Beach

Owner-side review of schedule and trade sequencing on a luxury high-rise in South Florida.

Owner obligations

Track owner decisions before they affect completion

Owner-held reviews, decisions, equipment and access can affect the completion forecast. We track them from day one, so their effect on the forecast is visible while there is still time to act.

01

Submittal and RFI turnaround

Review times against the contract and the schedule's assumed durations. The most common owner delay in the record, and the easiest to manage once measured.

02

Design changes and owner-directed work

Every change order carries a time question. We log the schedule impact as it happens, not a year later.

03

Owner-furnished items, permits, access and third parties

Equipment you procure, permits in your name, utility and agency coordination, access restrictions. Flagged before they slip if they sit on the critical path.

04

Decisions and approvals

Finish selections, scope holds, board approvals and funding releases. Small individually, but they add up on the critical path. We keep the running tally so your team sees the total before it moves the date.

What we look for

What we check before you accept a schedule

These are review flags, not verdicts. Each one gets checked against the contract, the logic and the project record, and reported plainly.

01Open-ended activities with no successor, so a slip never reaches the completion date
02Hard constraints on milestones that hold the finish date while the work behind it slides
03Lags doing the work of activities, hiding duration nobody can question
04A critical path through owner reviews, equipment, permits or decisions that the contract and record do not support
05Owner review durations set shorter than the contract allows, so your normal turnaround reads as delay
06High float on contractor work, often a sign of missing logic or unrealistic sequencing
07Durations that are not buildable with the crews on the job
08Percent complete with no remaining duration logic, so a 90 percent activity can sit for months
09Logic quietly revised between updates, with the narrative silent about it
10Recovery schedules that stack trades and compress durations with no change in crews or cost
Who we work with

Anyone who signs the pay app and carries the completion date

PROGRAM OWNERS

Infrastructure, transportation and energy owners

Multi-contractor programs with a public opening date. One integrated master schedule, interface milestones between contracts, and a monthly answer on whether the date is still real.

DEVELOPERS

Developers and private owners

Multifamily, hospitality, office, retail, industrial. A lender, a lease-up date, and a contractor's schedule you are asked to accept on faith. A second opinion with no stake in the job.

HEALTHCARE

Hospitals and healthcare systems

Phased work in occupied facilities, ICRA constraints, equipment lead times and a licensing date that does not move. We check the contractor's plan respects all of it.

PUBLIC

Cities, counties, school districts, authorities

A CPM spec in the contract and a board to answer to. Submittals reviewed against your spec, with a clear record of findings, milestone risks and decisions needed.

INSTITUTIONAL

Higher ed, non-profits, associations and boards

Capital projects run by a facilities team or a board that builds once a decade. Scheduling expertise plus a plain-language memo so your people can decide.

OWNER'S REPS

Owner's reps, program managers and lenders

A scheduler on call, not on staff. We slot in under your process and report in your format.

Project Owner FAQ

Questions we get from owners

My contractor already gives me a schedule. Why pay for an independent review?
Because the people who build the schedule have an interest in how it reads. An independent review tells you whether the baseline is sound and the progress is real before a problem is baked in.
We have several contractors on one program. Can you integrate their schedules?
Yes. Every contractor's P6 schedule in one network with interface milestones, owner-held activities and the opening date at the end, updated monthly.
How do I know the monthly progress my contractor reports is real?
We test reported percent complete against work in place and the logic, and track production against plan on quantity-driven work. The review looks for slippage in every update, while there is still time to respond.
My contractor submitted a delay claim. How do I evaluate it?
We pressure test their time impact analysis, isolate concurrent delay, and separate their delay from yours before you respond. You find out what time, if any, is actually owed.
Do you replace my project team or my scheduler?
No. You keep your PM, your contractors and your process. We add independent schedule expertise, from a single review to an embedded owner-side scheduler.
We are a public owner with a CPM spec in the contract. Do you work with us?
Yes. We review each submittal against your spec, document acceptance or rejection with reasons, and keep the record a claim, termination or audit will ask for.
Our contract barely mentions scheduling. Can you fix that for the next project?
Yes. A Section 01 32 00 CPM specification tailored to your project: what the contractor submits, when, in what format, how float is treated, and how time extensions are proven.
The contractor only gives us PDFs. Can you still review the schedule?
Yes, and we will tell you what the PDF hides. The native P6 file shows the logic, constraints, lags and float that drive the dates. Your contract should require the XER with every update. If it does not, we will draft the request.
What does a review cost and how long does it take?
Flat fee, quoted before we start. A baseline review runs 5 to 10 business days from receipt of the native file, a monthly update review about 3. Claim evaluations depend on the record. You get the number and the date in writing.
The job is late and we want to assess liquidated damages. What do you need?
The contract dates, every update, the as-built record and the delay correspondence. We build the as-built against the contract milestones and test for owner-caused and concurrent delay, ideally with counsel before you assess.
We are outside Florida. Does that matter?
Not for review work. Reviews, oversight, claim evaluations and expert reports are done remotely from your files.
When should I bring you in?
At baseline acceptance, so the schedule you are measured against is sound from day one, and the moment a delay claim, a change or a recovery schedule shows up and needs testing before you act on it.

Discuss your schedule decision

Tell us what needs reviewing and your decision deadline. We will confirm the next step and the records needed.

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