Planning & Scheduling

Integrated master schedules, realistic baselines, and lookahead discipline that align contractors, owners, and delivery teams - so milestones stay credible and recovery options stay visible.

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Why it matters

A schedule the project can actually run on

Most slipped projects don't lack effort - they lack a credible plan. We build schedules that hold up to scrutiny, drive the right conversations in the lookahead, and surface options before the float is gone.

  • Credible to leadership

    Logic that survives challenge, durations grounded in production rates, and milestones the steering committee can defend.

  • Usable on site

    Lookaheads that match how crews actually work, with constraints visible and updates that don't take a week to consolidate.

  • Defensible if contested

    Baseline, progress and impact captured contemporaneously - so time impact and entitlement analysis has evidence behind it.

Capabilities

End-to-end planning across the project lifecycle

From greenfield baseline through recovery, here's where we plug in. Engagements scale from a few hours of senior oversight to a full-time planner embedded for the duration.

  • Integrated Master Schedule

    A single CPM schedule that ties engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning together - with logic that holds up to challenge.

  • Baseline Development & Validation

    Realistic baselines built from production rates and resource availability, then validated against contractual milestones before sign-off.

  • Lookahead & Field Planning

    4 to 6 week lookaheads that align the field with the master schedule, with constraints, holds and readiness reviewed every week.

  • Progress Measurement & Status

    Earned schedule, physical % complete, and progress curves you can take to a client meeting without translation.

  • Schedule Risk Analysis

    Monte Carlo and qualitative risk overlays that test the plan against weather, productivity, interface and resource exposure.

  • Recovery & Acceleration Planning

    When slippage is real, structured recovery options - resequencing, acceleration, scope deferral - with the time and cost trade-offs spelled out.

How we engage

Embedded from week one

Our practitioners sit inside the delivery team. The schedule and the records get worked, not just reviewed - and the person who scopes the engagement is the person doing it.

  1. Listen & assess

    We sit with the schedule, the records and the project leadership to understand what the plan is actually telling people - and where the gaps are.

  2. Build or stabilise

    Whether it's a new baseline, a re-baseline, or a stabilised live schedule, we get the plan into a state the project can run on.

  3. Run with the team

    We own the weekly cadence - status, lookahead, risk, reporting - alongside the project team, not from the outside.

  4. Hand back stronger

    We exit when the project's own team can sustain the discipline - with documentation, templates and a trained successor in place.

What good looks like

Outcomes you can take to the steering committee

  • A baseline that survives independent review
  • Weekly status that decision-makers actually use
  • Recovery options on the table while there's still time to act
  • Records that hold up if entitlement gets contested

Tools

We work where your team already works

Primary platform is Oracle Primavera P6, with Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject, Acumen Fuse, and bespoke reporting dashboards used where the client's environment requires.

  • Oracle Primavera P6
  • Microsoft Project
  • Asta Powerproject
  • Acumen Fuse
  • Power BI

FAQ

Common questions about our planning & scheduling work

Bring credibility back into the plan.

Tell us where the schedule is sitting today - we'll put a senior planner on a short call and map what good looks like for your project.