Freestanding Emergency Department Program
Six freestanding emergency departments delivered as one program, each opening in the month the owner had committed to.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Texas
- Market
- Healthcare
- Capital value
- $140M
- Size
- 6 sites
- Delivery
- Program delivery
- Duration
- 22 months
- Completed
- 2024
What was at stake.
Six sites, three general contractors and six separate licensing inspections. Each contractor reported progress its own way, so leadership saw six different stories and no program view. Opening dates had been announced to communities before two of the sites had permits.
How we controlled it.
What our schedulers and cost engineers did on this project.
One program WBS
We set a common WBS and activity coding across all six schedules, so every site reported the same milestones in the same terms.
Permits as logic
Permit, utility and licensing milestones were loaded as logic, not as dates typed in a spreadsheet, so their real effect on opening showed.
Program dashboard
A single Power BI view showed each site's forecast opening, float and open risks, refreshed from the XER files every two weeks.
Repeat-site library
Lessons from the first two sites went into a logic library the later sites used from day one.
The result.
Six schedules that disagree are worse than none. Once every site spoke the same coding, the program could finally be read.
Program controls manager, AdenTurton
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