University Science Building Schedule Review
A teaching and research lab building that had to open for a fall semester, reviewed update by update.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Midwest
- Market
- Education
- Our role
- Baseline and update review
- Size
- 185,000 SF
- Delivery
- CM at-risk
- Duration
- 28 months
- Completed
- 2024
What was at stake.
The university had a CM schedule but no one on staff to test it. Each monthly update showed the finish holding, yet lab casework, fume hood certification and furniture were bunched into the last eight weeks before classes.
What we did.
Beck Franklin's role: baseline and update review. We advise and measure; the contractor builds.
Baseline check
We reviewed the accepted baseline for logic gaps, open ends and unrealistic durations in the lab fit-out.
Monthly update review
Every update was compared with the last one and with field progress, and changes to logic were flagged.
Lab path isolated
Casework, hoods and certification were pulled out as their own path so float loss there could not hide.
Early warning
When the lab path lost three weeks of float in one month, the university asked for and got a recovery sequence.
What the team delivered.
The finish date held every month. The lab path did not. Pulling it out on its own is what gave the university time to act.
Senior scheduler, Beck Franklin
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Facing something like this?
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