Semiconductor Utility Building Critical Path Review
A central utility building that must deliver ultrapure water, gases and power before the fab can start.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Southwest
- Market
- Semiconductor
- Our role
- Critical path analysis
- Size
- Central utility building
- Delivery
- CM at-risk
- Duration
- 34 months
- Status
- In progress · 2026
What is at stake.
The contractor's critical path runs through structure and envelope. The owner suspects the real driver is process piping and utility commissioning, which the schedule shows at a summary level.
What we are doing.
Beck Franklin's role: critical path analysis. We advise and measure; the contractor builds.
Path analysis
We trace the longest path in each update and compare it with the work the field says is driving.
Detail where it matters
Process piping and utility commissioning were broken out in more detail so their float is measurable.
Monthly findings
Each month the owner receives a short memo on whether the reported critical path is credible.
Fab interface
Utility milestones are linked to the fab's own need dates, so a slip shows its effect on first tool install.
Where it stands.
The reported critical path ran through the envelope. The real one ran through the process piping. Now the schedule shows it.
Senior scheduler, Beck Franklin
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Facing something like this?
Send us the schedule and the date that matters. We will tell you what is driving it and where you can still act. Repeat or similar projects qualify for our discounted Program Rate.