Scheduling Services

GCE

As experts in the industry, the GCE professionals interface with your organization’s team to provided custom tailored construction scheduling services to meet your project-specific needs.

GCE team members have extensive experience in providing construction scheduling and consulting for organizations throughout the United States and abroad for large infrastructure projects including: aviation facilities, transportation projects, higher education facilities, municipal public work projects, wastewater facilities, and capital improvement programs.

Our comprehensive services allow our client’s greater control over schedules milestones, allocation of project resources, and project monitoring and control.

Our Services

SCHEMATIC PHASE
SCHEDULE AT CONCEPTUAL

When the scope of the project is being defined, a simple schedule that shows the major tasks and approximate start and end dates is developed to allow senior management to make decisions about the scope of the project. GCE team members can evaluate schematic/conceptual scopes and develop conceptual project schedules that will allow stakeholders to evaluate project scopes and make informed decisions on the priority of specific tasks.

PLANNING PHASE
BASELINE SCHEDULES

An accurate and detailed baseline schedule is critical to the success of any project. GCE team has extensive experience in developing baseline schedules for complex projects and programs and have successfully assisted clients by developing fully detailed schedules using Primavera P6 and MS project. The GCE approach integrates and ties-in project estimate information including schedule durations calculated from estimated production rates to ensure accuracy and traceable data between the project estimate and baseline schedule.

PLANNING PHASE
RESOURCE AND COST LOADING

GCE’s project estimating and scheduling approach our team to perform accurate resource and cost loading of the project schedule. Detailed project information from the project estimate is integrated into the activities and task of the project schedule. This allows our team to produce data-driven reports allowing our clients to plan for project resource allocation and make informed financial decisions based on accurate and traceable information.

CONSTRUCTION PHASE
PROGRESS SCHEDULES AND UPDATES

During construction phase, GCE assists clients by providing dedicated project schedulers experienced in performing monthly progress schedule updates. Our team members work with the project team to provide monthly scheduling reports outlining the monthly progress of each activity and proposes or resolves any changes to the project logic. GCE team members are experienced in producing understandable and accurate schedule reports that communicate the current project status and projected time of completion to the project stakeholders.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
SCHEDULE ANALYSIS AND REVIEW SERVICES

An accurate and detailed baseline schedule is critical to the success of any project , and therefore the analysis of the contractor’s project schedule is a crucial role in the process. GCE team reviews project schedules for conformance with the contract documents uses guidelines published by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE) International as guiding principles for the review and analysis.  GCE schedule analysis approach identifies any early warning signs of project slippage and allows management to take early corrective actions to ensure resolution.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT
TIME IMPACT ANALYSIS (TIA)

GCE time impact analysis consulting services helps to determine the impact of an effect which affects the overall project timeline or interim milestone. This method is also know as a “forward-looking” analysis which focuses on the effect from a particular event and how it affects a project milestones. The primary purpose of this analysis is to determine the prospective delay caused when introducing the event which impacted the project schedule. GCE team members are experience in analyzing impacts to the project schedule and producing clear and understandable reports to support and justify time extension requests.

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