Commercial Bakery Production Plant
A new commercial bakery with four production lines, baking for retail customers on the first contracted delivery date.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Southeast
- Market
- Food & Beverage
- Capital value
- $135M
- Size
- 4 production lines
- Delivery
- Design-Build
- Duration
- 20 months
- Completed
- 2023
What was at stake.
Retail supply contracts had a fixed start date with penalties for missed deliveries. Ovens, mixers and packaging lines came from overseas vendors with long lead times, and food safety certification had to be complete before the first shipment. The design-build schedule stopped at the building.
How we controlled it.
What our schedulers and cost engineers did on this project.
Equipment on the path
Vendor fabrication, shipping, installation and line trials were loaded into the schedule and tied to building readiness by area.
Certification planned
Sanitation, food safety audits and trial runs were scheduled as work with durations, ending at the first shipment.
Vendor tracking
Monthly vendor progress checks caught a late oven shipment early enough to resequence installation around it.
Owner reporting
A short weekly status gave operations leadership the date, the float and the top three risks.
The result.
The building was never the risk. The ovens on a ship were, so the ovens went on the critical path.
Senior scheduler, AdenTurton
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