Acute Care Bed Tower Baseline Rebuild
An eleven-story acute care tower whose first contractor baseline promised a finish the logic could not reach.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Southeast
- Market
- Healthcare
- Our role
- Baseline development
- Size
- 11 stories · 260 beds
- Delivery
- CM at-risk
- Duration
- 34 months
- Completed
- 2025
What was at stake.
The submitted baseline met the owner's opening date, but it did so with 140 open ends, hard constraints on the last six floors and medical equipment shown as a single milestone. Accept it, and every later delay would be argued against a schedule that was never real.
What we did.
Beck Franklin's role: baseline development. We advise and measure; the contractor builds.
Logic test first
We ran a full logic and constraint check on the submitted XER and showed the owner which dates were held up by constraints, not by work.
Rebuilt with the CM
Working with the CM's scheduler, we rebuilt the floor-by-floor sequence, interior rough-in flow and the medical equipment chain in P6.
Activation in logic
Licensing inspections, equipment acceptance and staff move-in were tied to the construction finish instead of floating free.
A baseline to measure by
The rebuilt baseline was accepted and used as the yardstick for every monthly update through turnover.
What the team delivered.
A baseline that meets the date only through constraints is a forecast nobody can use. We rebuilt it so the date came from the work.
Lead scheduler, Beck Franklin
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