The managed-lanes corridor now runs on one schedule. The KonradBeck planning and scheduling team has completed the integration of five contractor schedules into a single integrated master schedule for the owner, with every interface between contracts tied by logic and reviewed at each data date.
The problem with five good schedules
Each contract on the corridor had its own Primavera P6 schedule, and most of them were sound on their own terms. The trouble lived between them. A paving contract waited on a utility relocation in another contract. A bridge segment depended on a traffic switch someone else controlled. Those handoffs were tracked in meeting minutes and email, which meant nobody could see the corridor's true critical path. Each schedule showed positive float. The corridor, taken as a whole, did not.
Five schedules with float can add up to one program that is late. The float lives in the gaps nobody owns.
Senior scheduler, KonradBeck
What integration changed
- Interface milestones. Every handoff between contracts is now a named milestone with an owner on each side and logic in both schedules.
- A corridor critical path. For the first time, the owner can see the longest path across all 18 corridor miles, not just within each contract.
- Common data dates and calendars. All contracts now update to the same data date, with night-closure calendars aligned so traffic windows are modeled the same way everywhere.
- Update reviews before acceptance. Each contractor update passes a logic and health review before it rolls into the master, so one bad update cannot distort the corridor view.
What the first integrated update showed
The first integrated run surfaced two interfaces where one contract assumed access weeks before another planned to give it. Neither showed up in the individual schedules. Both were resolved in a single coordination session because the owner could see the dates side by side and the float that each conflict was consuming.
What comes next
The integrated master schedule now feeds the owner's monthly executive report, with a corridor-level look-ahead and a short list of interface risks. The next step is a schedule risk analysis across the integrated network, so corridor milestones can be reported with a confidence level rather than a single date.
