Programs slip between contracts.
Design, permits, utilities, procurement, every construction package and the owner’s own work, tied together in one integrated master schedule. When one piece moves, you see what it moves next, and who has to act.
Why programs lose time.
Ten schedules, no single truth
Every contractor reports its own dates against its own data date. Nobody owns the handoffs between packages, and handoffs are exactly where programs slip.
The owner’s work is off the page
Utility service, permanent power, IT fit-out, furniture, licensing and move-in sit outside every contract. They still decide the opening.
Green until it is red
Executives see a slide of green milestones until the month one turns red. By then every option to recover costs real money.
How we integrate.
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Map every handoff
Access, utilities, data, inspections, equipment and turnover: each point where one party hands work to another becomes a tied interface milestone.
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One coding standard
A shared WBS and activity code dictionary, so every contractor schedule rolls up without retyping a single line.
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Link, never copy
Contractor schedules feed the IMS through controlled interface milestones. Updates flow monthly instead of being rebuilt by hand.
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Find the program critical path
The driving path often runs through an owner decision, a utility or a permit, not through any one contractor. We show it plainly.
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Report at three levels
Activity detail for the controls team, package view for managers, one page for the executive committee. Same data underneath all three.
What you get.
Scoped to your project and delivered in native files your team owns.
One logic-tied schedule covering design, permits, procurement, construction, owner work, commissioning and activation.
Every handoff between parties with an owner, a need date and a status, reviewed in every monthly meeting.
Rules that tell every contractor how to build, code, update and submit its schedule, ready to drop into the next bid package.
The real driving path across every package, with float to each key milestone stated in days, not colors.
One page of milestones, trends and decisions needed, tied directly to the detailed schedule.
The permit was the critical path.
On multi-contract programs the longest path rarely belongs to one builder. It runs through a utility energization date, a permit or an owner decision that sits in nobody’s scope. An IMS puts that activity on the page with an owner and a date, months before it becomes the reason for a late opening.
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- Schedule for the whole program
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- Reporting levels, one dataset
- Monthly
- Interface review
See it in the work.
Confidential projects where these controls apply, and a live instrument you can run on the shared Controls Lab schedule.
Questions owners ask us.
Do our contractors have to change software?
No. We set coding and submission rules and integrate through interface milestones. Each contractor keeps scheduling the way it does today.
What size program needs an IMS?
Any program where more than one contract, or the owner’s own work, can delay the finish. The value grows with every party you add.
Can you take over an IMS that already exists?
Yes. We start with a review of the current file, repair logic and coding, then run it month to month.
Our program has many similar projects. Is there a better rate?
Yes. Repeat projects reuse the coding, interfaces and templates built for the first. Ask about a Program Rate.
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