Student Residence Village
Monthly schedule audits flagged a slipping critical path early enough to hold move-in weekend.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Student Housing
- Our role
- Schedule assurance
- Scale
- 1,020 beds
- Completed
- 2023
Monthly schedule audits that flagged a slipping critical path early enough to hold move-in weekend.
Move-in weekend was fixed by the academic calendar. If the beds were not ready, more than a thousand students would need emergency housing. The contractor’s updates showed the project on time, but progress on the ground did not seem to match. The university asked for an independent audit of each monthly update.
The approach.
- 01
Monthly schedule audits
Each update was checked against the baseline for changed logic, shortened durations and quietly moved milestones.
- 02
Progress verified on site
Reported percent complete was compared with walkdowns, which showed interiors running weeks behind the update.
- 03
The real critical path
We showed the university that the critical path had shifted to interior finishes and inspections, with negative float to move-in.
- 04
Recovery plan tested
The contractor’s recovery plan was checked activity by activity before the university accepted it.
The outcome.
“The update said on time. The building said otherwise. Finding that gap in month nine instead of month twelve saved move-in weekend.”
Schedule assurance lead, KonradBeck
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