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Project controls · Construction scheduling · Project management consulting

Know what’s driving your project before it drives your costs.

Beck Franklin helps owners, contractors, and project teams manage demanding commercial, industrial, and infrastructure work. We bring schedule, cost, and field progress together so you can see which milestones are at risk, what’s causing the pressure, and where a decision can still make a difference.

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Can the work actually be built this way?

Design release
Switchgear procurement
Structure and envelope
Electrical rough-in
Energize and commission
Substantial completionOn trackWatchDriving risk
41days to return the baseline

Switchgear lead time is longer than the logic allows. The finish is not buildable as drawn, so the baseline goes back before you accept it.

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Emmanuel Ugbaja, Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Beck Franklin
Emmanuel UgbajaPrincipal & CEO · Beck Franklin
Emmanuel Ugbaja | Project Controls Leadership

The schedule should tell you where to act.

I’m Emmanuel Ugbaja. For more than a decade, I’ve helped teams deliver complex, high-stakes construction and infrastructure projects. I’ve worked through the questions that matter when commitments are on the line. Does the baseline reflect how the work can actually be built? Is the delay confined to one work area, or will it move a contractual milestone? What can the team change now to protect the finish date?

At Beck Franklin, I bring that judgment to every review. I compare the schedule with field progress, look at how changes affect the work that follows, and explain the implications in terms owners and contractors can act on. The goal is to give clients enough visibility to make the hard decisions while they still have options.

Projects

Confidential work, clear outcomes.

40 projects across commercial, industrial and infrastructure work. Owners, locations and contract values stay private. The challenge, our role and the result do not.

Illustrative imageHealthcare Acute Care Bed Tower Baseline RebuildThe contractor's baseline showed an on-time finish that the logic could not support. We rebuilt it before the owner accepted it. 11 stories · 260 beds34 monthsCompleted 2025Illustrative imageWater & Wastewater Membrane Treatment Plant Schedule OversightThe owner needed an independent read on a design-builder's schedule before each price phase. We give them one every month. 40 MGD44 monthsIn progressIllustrative imageManufacturing Battery Module Assembly Plant BaselineA production start date was set before the site was graded. We built the baseline that shows what that date depends on. 1.2M SF30 monthsIn progressIllustrative imageData Centers Hyperscale Data Hall Commissioning ControlsReady for service meant Level 5 testing done, not a finished building. We scheduled every hall to that standard. 4 halls · 72 MW26 monthsCompleted 2025Illustrative imageAviation Airfield Taxiway Reconstruction RecoveryA wet spring cost three weeks of paving inside a short construction season. The recovery plan won them back before the first frost. 2 taxiways · 9,000 ft20 monthsCompleted 2024Illustrative imageTransportation Transit Station Accessibility ProgramElevators and ramps at twelve stations that stay open to riders. Track outages drive the schedule, so we plan around them. 12 stations40 monthsIn progressIllustrative imageSports & Entertainment Stadium Seating Bowl Rebuild ControlsA seating bowl rebuilt between seasons, with event dates the team cannot move. We forecast time and cost against each of them. 60,000 seats36 monthsIn progressIllustrative imagePower & Renewables Utility-Scale Solar and Storage BaselineThree sites tied to interconnection dates set by the utility. The baseline linked each site to its utility milestone from the start. 3 sites · 600 MW22 monthsCompleted 2025
Controls Lab · Live

Put a price on one late day.

Set the sliders to your project and see what a slipped milestone costs. Then open the Controls Lab to build, stress and score a real CPM schedule.

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Every day late costs about$0
One week
One month
A 90-day slip
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Act while you still have options.

Send the schedule, the milestone your commitments ride on and what is worrying you. Emmanuel Ugbaja reads every request personally.