KonradBeck launches Rising Controls Professionals
A year-long mentoring program for emerging controls firms and early-career schedulers, taught by the people who build and defend schedules for a living.
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Insights · 12 articles
Insights
Sharp thinking on schedules, cost and risk, plus news and progress from the programs we control.
P50 is not a promise
A coin-flip date dressed up as a commitment is the most expensive number in capital projects. How to read a QSRA, and how to size contingency you can actually defend.
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Controlling a hospital that never closes
In an occupied hospital, the schedule is not a construction document. It is a clinical one. Five rules for controlling work next to patients who cannot be moved.
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Five years of KonradBeck in Newark
KonradBeck was incorporated in Newark, New Jersey in 2021 with one idea: owners deserve the truth about their programs early. Five years on, that idea still sets the agenda.
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Arts center cost reporting earns client praise
The venue’s owner and finance committee recognized the monthly cost report that let them answer every donor question with a number, a source and a date.
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Your schedule is lying to you
Open ends, hard constraints and float that never moves. The DCMA 14-point check will not fix a schedule, but it will tell you when to stop believing it.
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KonradBeck launches executive controls dashboards
One page, refreshed every period, that tells a leadership team where the program stands on time, cost and risk. Built in Power BI on data we check before you see it.
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Storage portfolio risk model narrows the P80 gap
Three risk workshops and two QSRA cycles later, the four-site portfolio has a P80 date inside its interconnection window and a contingency tied to named risks.
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Corridor client team recognizes schedule accuracy
The owner’s program team singled out the corridor forecast for landing within days of reality, month after month, on 18 miles of work under live traffic.
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Arena controls hit the 90-day forecast checkpoint
Ninety days before a sold-out opening night, the integrated forecast shows the critical path holding, with float measured in days, not hoped for in weeks.
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Managed lanes: five contracts, one schedule
The corridor’s contractor schedules now roll up into one integrated master schedule, with every interface between contracts tied by logic instead of email.
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