SERVICES

Predevelopment/Development Planning & Scheduling

Polished, professional, fine tuned proposal material can help make the difference in closing deals. 8150 CONSULTING has experience developing complete schedules with great accuracy and marketable appearance to help with your investor relations and pro forma requirements. Funding, Design, Land Closings, Entitlements, Utilities, Permitting, Procurement, Construction, Close Out, and Warranty each have their own hurdles to understand, track and manage. 8150 CONSULTING can help you and your team define and set expectations with a schedule that incorporates all of your goals.

Preconstruction Planning & Scheduling

There's an old British Army adage, known as the 7 Ps - Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Creating an accurate, detailed road map for construction teams to follow involves setting aside the time that it takes to implement the 7Ps. For Owners, Owner’s Representatives, Architects, Contractors and Subcontractors, 8150 CONSULTING can help your team create detailed schedules with each stage of design from Concept Design through Construction Documents. Accurate Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules that consider site conditions, site logistics, construction types, market conditions, and production rates are essential to overall progress success. A requirement of nearly all Requests for Proposals for General Contracting Services, and an essential element for establishing General Conditions, the creation of the CPM schedule with sufficient detail is crucial to obtaining buy-in from all stake holders in order to set a realistic attainable contract baseline schedule. Let 8150 CONSULTING create schedules that help get you to the starting line for Construction Operations.

Construction Scheduling

Best laid plans are great, right up until the first bump in the road is hit. Some projects go exactly according to plan and when they do, their success can almost always be traced back to the effort that the team put in prior to ever putting a shovel into the ground. Unfortunately, with tight deadlines and a race to get to market or get to completion, some of this pre-planning and coordination can be rushed leading to problems that must be dealt with later. As the number of problems increases and start to compound, that initial baseline plan can become out dated. Accurate schedule updates are imperative to a successful project. Many contracts require an approved scheduling professional to maintain and update the master CPM Schedule as owners and developers have experienced both the benefits of this service as well as the consequences resulting from inadequate scheduling practices. No matter which Stakeholder you are in a Construction Project, 8150 CONSULTING can work with your team to accurately maintain and update your schedule so that you can hold the appropriate party accountable to their dates.

Schedule Analysis

Missed opportunities due to a lack of accurate and timely information can be frustrating at the very least; too often, however, this can lead to finger pointing, strained relationships and delays costing all of the Stakeholders time and money. Even without a professional scheduler on your team helping with consistent monthly or bimonthly schedule updates and maintenance, a few hours of our time spent analyzing your schedule updates and observing your project's dynamics at a few critical points in a project can save weeks or more on the overall project completion as well as the tens of thousands of dollars or much more in associated extended General Conditions, lost revenue, liquidated damages, actual damages, financing costs, on top of lost opportunities and damaged reputations. Predictability and accurate forecasting provide peace of mind easing concerns and anxiety. 8150 CONSULTING brings clarity to the occasional construction chaos providing your team with the information needed to guide important decisions.

Construction Delays / Claims / Claims Mitigation

Few of us like arguments, with our spouses, family members, friends, co-workers, contract partners or even strangers. Bad news is generally not well communicated or well received. In the construction industry, misinformation, untimely decisions or information, changes, indecision, conflicts, dis-coordination, and the like generally result in schedule delays and cost increases. No matter if you are a Contractor, a Subcontractor, an Owner, or an Architect/Engineer, with more than 20 years in the industry 8150 CONSULTING has just about seen it all and can create Requests for Equitable Adjustment (REA) and Time Impact Analyses (TIA) to support your position on Pending Change Orders (PCO) or Change Orders (CO) involving time extensions by using various forensic schedule analysis techniques helping make sense of the usually complicated mess that has been created in these situations. Solving disputes within project teams, avoiding Litigation, Arbitration, and Mediation, should b the goal for your teams, but occasionally, when this is impossible, 8150 CONSULTING can use these same forensic schedule analysis techniques to provide Expert Witness services.