AdenTurton launches the Controls Lab: ten instruments, one CPM engine
Ten free, live instruments that run on one shared critical path schedule. Score a file, insert a delay, test a finish date and price a late day.
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Insights · 9 articles
Insights
Projects fail in the forecast, not the field. Here is how we read the forecast: float, P80 dates, earned schedule, commissioning logic and the record behind a delay claim.
Introducing Program Rates for repeat and similar projects
The second hall, school or substation should not pay for the same setup twice. How Program Rates work and who they are for.
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The P80 your lender is reading, and the P50 you are managing to
Lenders, tax equity and boards price risk in confidence levels. If your team only manages to the single CPM date, you are speaking a different language from the people funding the job.
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Building a time impact analysis that survives the other side’s expert
A TIA is an argument made in logic. Seven steps to build one that a reviewer cannot take apart, starting months before anyone says the word claim.
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Earned schedule: the SPI that still tells the truth at the end
Classic SPI drifts back to 1.0 as a late project finishes, no matter how late it is. Earned schedule measures time in time. Here is how to read it and use it.
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Data center commissioning, L1 to L5, as real schedule logic
Ready for service is decided in the last ninety days, and most schedules model them as one bar. How to put every commissioning level into the network so nobody can squeeze it on paper.
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Float is the owner’s money in disguise
Every day of float on a schedule was bought with money and time someone budgeted. Who owns it, who spends it, and why the contract usually answers the question badly.
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Projects fail in the forecast, not the field
Crews rarely surprise anyone. Forecasts do. Why the slip that ends up in a claim was visible in the data months earlier, and what independent controls change.
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