Projects
Planning, Scheduling & Project Controls
Project controls and scheduling leadership for major construction, shutdown, turnaround, maintenance and pipeline or facility programs. Builds integrated execution schedules, validates contractor progress, manages critical path and resource logic, and supports delay, recovery and claims analysis.
$170M project with 300,000 man hours and 15,000 activities
- UEI
- ZR3PJZEA7A21
- CAGE
- 174X8
- Independence
- Findings challenged before release
- Deployment
- Remote response within 24 hours
What This Discipline Covers
Scope of the technical capability.
Project controls and scheduling leadership for major construction, shutdown, turnaround, maintenance and pipeline or facility programs. Builds integrated execution schedules, validates contractor progress, manages critical path and resource logic, and supports delay, recovery and claims analysis.
- Primavera P6
- CPM
- Integrated master scheduling
- Resource loading and leveling
- EVM, SPI and CPI
- Critical path
- Look ahead planning
- Schedule recovery
- Delay and impact analysis
- Forensic schedule review
- Change impact
- Contractor schedule review
- WBS and CBS
- Commissioning and turnover scheduling
- TILOS
- SAP and Maximo integration
Problems The Technical Lead Solves
The questions this discipline is engaged to answer.
- 01
Schedule delays
- 02
Claims and extension of time
- 03
Recovery planning
- 04
Turnaround planning
- 05
Contractor schedule validation
- 06
Productivity and resource analysis
- 07
Critical path disputes
- 08
Baseline and schedule governance
Equipment And Systems
Assets this Technical Lead has worked on directly.
- EPC projects
- Turnarounds
- Shutdowns
- Gas compressor stations
- Pipelines
- Industrial facilities
- Maintenance portfolios
Industries And Environments
Operating environments where this experience was built.
- Chemical
- Oil and gas and upgrading
- Agricultural processing
- Energy and infrastructure
- Industrial construction
Diagnostic And Investigation Methods
How the technical work is actually performed.
- Schedule review, logic verification, and critical path analysis
- Delay and disruption analysis using recognized forensic methods
- Progress measurement and earned value assessment
- Cost and change order technical review
- Constructability and sequence evaluation
- Contemporaneous record reconstruction
Tools Capability
The platforms, instruments and measurement methods used on assignments.
These platforms, instruments and methods are used to produce evidence that holds up under audit, underwriting review and cross examination.
Enterprise Scheduling
Oracle Primavera P6
Baseline, update and as built schedule analysis on capital projects, turnarounds and outages.
Microsoft Project
Schedule review where the project record is maintained outside Primavera.
Forensic Schedule Analysis
Deltek Acumen Fuse
Schedule quality diagnostics, baseline against actual comparison and audit ready forensic assessment in delay disputes.
Deltek Acumen Risk
Quantitative schedule risk and Monte Carlo analysis supporting completion forecasts and lender review.
Time impact, windows and as planned against as built analysis
Recognised delay methodologies including concurrent delay assessment under AACE practice.
Root Cause and Analytical Method
Event and causal factor charting
Linking of delay events to the responsible cause and the contemporaneous record that proves it.
5 Why and fault tree screening
Rapid triage of productivity, procurement and execution causes before detailed quantification.
Analytics and Reporting
Power BI, Python and SQL
Progress, productivity and cost schedule integration reporting for owners, investors and counsel.
Evidence Handling and Dispute Support
Contemporaneous record review
Daily reports, correspondence, minutes and progress photographs reconciled against the schedule record.
Deposition ready exhibit preparation
Schedule findings presented as traceable exhibits rather than conclusions.
BlackOut Power / TerraTolga Proprietary Capability
- Engineering Records Intelligence
Interrogation of the project record set behind a delay, disruption or productivity position.
- TerraTolga PDF / Vault Compare
Revision by revision comparison of drawings and specifications to date and attribute scope change.
- Criticality
Ranking of scope and asset elements by consequence to focus schedule and CAPEX attention.
Codes And Standards
Frameworks applied to the analysis.
- AACE International recommended practices
- AACE 29R-03 forensic schedule analysis
- PMI project management standards
- AACE 52R-06 time impact analysis
Credentials And Qualification
The professional basis for this discipline.
- 01
Project controls leadership on major capital programs
- 02
Planning and scheduling certification or equivalent depth
- 03
Claims and delay analysis experience in disputed projects
- 04
Field construction management experience
Scale And Breadth
Reported scale of professional exposure.
- 01
$170M project with 300,000 man hours and 15,000 activities
- 02
$80M gas compressor station project with 250,000 man hours and 10,000 activities
- 03
$60M turnaround with more than 150,000 man hours, 500 work orders and 6,000+ activities
- 04
$100M turnaround portfolio spanning 12 related projects
Representative Professional Experience
Assignment types this discipline supports.
- 01
Forensic schedule analysis establishing responsibility for critical path delay
- 02
Technical evaluation of disruption and productivity loss claims
- 03
Independent progress and completion assessment for a lender
- 04
Review of change order technical justification on a capital project
Assignment descriptions are generalized to protect client confidentiality. Specific references can be discussed during scoping where permissions allow.
Multidisciplinary Interfaces
Disciplines this work commonly coordinates with.
- Construction Claims
- Mechanical and project engineering
- Electrical
- Process
- Field Execution
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