University Research Computing Center
One integrated master schedule linked grant milestones, design, construction and a fixed equipment delivery window.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Higher Education
- Our role
- Planning & scheduling
- Scale
- $140M building
- Completed
- 2023
An integrated master schedule that tied a research computing build to grant deadlines and a fixed equipment delivery window.
The university had grant funding with reporting deadlines and a computing equipment order with a delivery window that could not be rebooked. Design, construction, utility upgrades and IT fit-out each had their own schedule, in different formats, owned by different teams. When one moved, nobody saw the effect on the others until a deadline was already at risk.
The approach.
- 01
One integrated master schedule
We merged four separate schedules into a single Primavera P6 integrated master schedule with clean logic and a shared data date.
- 02
Grant and delivery milestones
Grant reporting dates and the equipment delivery window became constrained milestones, with float to each one reported every update.
- 03
DCMA checks every update
Each contractor update ran through a DCMA 14-point check before it entered the master schedule, so bad logic never reached the forecast.
- 04
Look-ahead for the fit-out
A rolling six-week look-ahead coordinated power, cooling and network readiness with the equipment arrival.
The outcome.
“The building was only half the deadline. The schedule had to answer to the grant and the equipment order too.”
Senior scheduler, KonradBeck
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