CPM Scheduling Services

At Constructive, our primary goal is to provide exceptional scheduling and management services that add value to our clients’ projects. Our experienced staff of professionals, with over 100 years of combined experience, is committed to helping our clients make enlightened, educated, and correct critical decisions.

We believe that project controls, including the use of CPM, Linear and BIM integrated techniques, and Risk Management, are essential to delivering a project on time and with the highest efficiency. Properly designed and executed project schedules greatly support the efforts and challenges of controlling engineering and construction projects.

To ensure successful project completion, we urge the incorporation of philosophies such as project team participation at all stages, more thoughtful work and resource flows, proper application of schedule relationships, good construction organization and WBS/coding, less ambiguity in work identification, and a thorough understanding of project milestone flow and scope.

We practice this philosophy on every schedule we create and manage, and are guided by current industry standards like PMBOK, CMAA, AACE, GAO, USACE, and others as required by each project. Trust us to deliver excellent scheduling and management services for your construction projects.

Resource and cost loading is an essential practice in project management, and Constructive recognizes its importance in effective construction planning. Assigning material, labor, and equipment resources to all scheduled activities allows for the production of Resource Histograms to track planned versus actual manpower on a weekly or monthly basis. This facilitates the identification of potential labor shortages and explains any deviation from planned progress.

Cost loading is another tool that allows contractors to generate billing reports to support payment applications. Constructive utilizes cost loading to produce planned versus actual S-Curves to monitor project financial performance and earned value over time, and project important metrics such as Cost at Completion these metrics, including CAT, CPI, and SPI, are significant factors in measuring project performance.

Cost and Resource Loaded Schedule Updates are submitted as pay applications, and Constructive has the skilled expertise to review updates collected from weekly, biweekly, or monthly data collection. Our updating process involves assimilating collected field data and documentation, applying them in accordance with the scheduled plan, and fore sighting into shortcomings and expected changes.

Our Schedule updates include detailed schedule updates & float path analyses for each work package, monitoring of project progress against the scheduled Baseline, and identification of recovery opportunities, delay potentials, and near critical items. We also provide various progress reports tailored to meet the project’s requirements, including but not limited to variance reports, cash flow reports, and storage time for procured items.

Whether it’s required by the project specification, or your company wants to plan/track resource flow, Constructive believes that resource and cost loading is a good practice for construction projects. We understand the importance of recording and supporting the resource and cost loading process, and we are fully versed in all resource and cost loading processes and needs.

In construction projects, delays can occur despite the best efforts of all parties involved. In such cases, project owners often demand that contractors submit a recovery schedule, outlining their plan to achieve an earlier-than-projected completion date. A recovery schedule differs from a schedule update in that it projects substantial completion by either the original contract completion date or another earlier date.

Constructive, as a company that specializes in project controls, understands the importance of standardized plans and the impact they can have on actual construction progress. We also understand that CPM Schedules cannot be standardized in all cases, especially when actual construction progress differs from planned schedules. This is where our Project Controls Engineers come in, who are well-equipped to create a recovery schedule that considers project scheduling, scope of work, financial obligations, resource management, and site details to mitigate any risks.

Our recovery schedule outlines the strategies and measures that the project team intends to take to bring the project back on track. We advise contractors to notify owners of any impacts that led to the request for a recovery schedule and the extent of any acceleration effort needed to meet the recovery schedule’s substantial completion date. This enhances a contractor’s legal position and allows owners to measure the temporal and financial ramifications of adherence to the recovery schedule.

At Constructive, we aim to keep you within the project flow, allowing you to face contractual obligations, minimize risks, avoid disputes, control sub contractual claims, manage owners’ worries, and cost holding. Our goal is to help you reach project completion with ease and efficiency.

At Constructive, we understand that timely and accurate project schedule updates are crucial for successful project control and forward planning. Our periodic updates include actual costs (both variable and fixed) and forecasted completion costs.

The updating process involves two key steps: first, we gather information from the field and office to ensure that the updates reflect what actually took place during the reporting period. This information is often found in contemporaneous documentation.

The second step involves revising short-term future forecasts based on historical knowledge and job expertise. Our team assimilates all information to ensure that the schedule is fully updated, and we prepare reports, graphic diagrams, and schedule narratives accordingly.

If your project has suffered identifiable impacts that result in delayed milestones, we conduct time-impact analysis to support your change order request. Our scheduling experts have extensive experience in construction claims analysis and can assist you in crafting a schedule that anticipates potential complications and quantifying any damages related to scheduling adjustments.

The Importance of a Business Plan and Cash Flow Management

A sound business plan is crucial for any type of business, especially for new business owners. This is because it allows them to forecast their projects accurately and improve their chances of making a profit while minimizing losses.

Cash Flow Projection Benefits

It is essential to understand the benefits associated with cash flow projection. Cash Flow Projection is a significant aspect of business management that enables the owner to understand the income of a company for a financial year versus the working capital available at that time. The projection is lower for new business owners and higher for companies that have been in business for a long time.

How Cash Flow is Earned and Managed

A company earns cash, also known as receivables, which is used for expenses or operations. It must be allocated appropriately to meet targets and maximize profits. A business must start with sufficient capital to remain secure even after the initial expenditures. Variable and fixed expenses must be considered, and income from the sales of products or services should be assessed. Budgeting software is often used for these calculations, as it provides more accurate results than manual calculations.

The Importance of Cash Flow Projection

A cash flow projection is not only important for business owners but also for investors. It enables them to assess the financial position of a business before investing. It also helps businesses understand whether they can meet immediate financial requirements and plan for the future.

The Importance of Proper Cash Management

In conclusion, proper cash management is vital for the success of any business. Accurate forecasting of cash flow can help businesses avoid negative cash flow and move in the right direction towards achieving their goals.