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Delay & Claims

Forensic delay analysis, time and money entitlement, and independent expert evidence that holds up under cross-examination.

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Digital Delivery

BIM, 4D and 5D, reality capture and digital twins, wired into the schedule and the budget.

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The finish line, visible from day one.

About Schedola

Clarity is a discipline.

Founded by Colins Epie to give every capital project a clear line of sight to its finish.

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16 markets. One standard of clarity.

Sector fluency, applied with the same discipline everywhere.

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$19.56B of capital, in plain sight.

60 featured projects across 17 sectors. Every client confidential.

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Do work you can see finished.

Careers for people who would rather know than hope.

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Market 3.01 · Data Centers

Data Centers, capacity on the date it was sold.

Hyperscale, colocation and AI campuses, where the real deadline is energised white space and the cost of a slip is counted in megawatts nobody can rent.

Market3.01
Pressures3
Key services6
SectorData Centers
StatusActive
The market

Your customers bought a date. We keep it in view.

A data center is judged on one question: when does the power reach the racks? Utility interconnects, substations, switchgear, generators and cooling plant all arrive on lead times longer than the build itself, and the last months belong to commissioning that few schedules model honestly. Most campus delays are visible a year ahead, if anyone is looking in the right place.

Schedola traces the path to capacity end to end — from the utility’s energisation date and the transformer’s factory slot, through building handover, to the final integrated systems test. We put long-lead gear, commissioning levels and phase-to-phase learning on one logic-linked schedule, so leadership sees time-to-capacity as a forecast, not a hope. When the hall goes live on the promised day, it is because the risk was surfaced while there was still room to move.

What is at stake

What keeps data centers leaders awake

The specific risks of this market, named plainly. We plan for them from day one, because we have worked inside them.

RISK-01

Power before everything

Utility interconnect and on-site substation dates that quietly set the true finish, often outside the contractor’s control.

RISK-02

Equipment in the queue

Transformers, switchgear, UPS and chillers whose factory slots and test dates belong on the critical path, not in a spreadsheet.

RISK-03

Commissioning at the end

Level 1 to 5 testing and integrated systems tests compressed into the final weeks unless they are planned from day one.

Nobody leases a building. They lease megawatts on a date. That date is the only schedule that matters.
Our conviction in Data Centers
Questions, answered

What leaders ask us first.

Straight answers from the people who do the work. If your question is not here, ask us directly. A senior practitioner will reply.

Can you control a multi-building campus as one program?

Yes. We build a program schedule that links utility, site, shell, fit-out and commissioning for every phase, with reusable templates so each new building starts from what the last one taught.

How do you handle long-lead electrical equipment?

We load factory slots, witness tests, shipping and delivery milestones into the schedule logic, so a slipping transformer shows up as a slipping energisation date months before it arrives.

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Other markets

3.02

Mission Critical

Network hubs, operations and control centres, emergency services and secure facilities that are upgraded while they keep running.

3.03

Commercial

Office towers, mixed-use, hospitality and retail, where the completion date is already written into leases, loans and launch plans.

3.04

Industrial

Process plants, heavy industrial facilities and large EPC programs where engineering, procurement and construction run at once.

3.05

Manufacturing

Advanced manufacturing, automotive, battery and gigafactory programs where the business case is written around the first saleable unit.

3.06

Distribution Centers

Fulfilment, logistics and cold-storage facilities delivered in regional and national programs on tight, repeatable timelines.

3.07

Healthcare

Hospitals, medical centres and research facilities built and renovated while care continues next door.

3.08

Pharmaceutical

GMP manufacturing, laboratories and life-sciences facilities whose true finish is set by commissioning, qualification and validation.

3.09

Semiconductor

Fabs, cleanrooms and advanced packaging plants: some of the most complex and capital-intensive buildings ever attempted.

3.10

Food & Beverage

Processing, bottling and cold-chain facilities for brands people buy every week, often expanded inside plants that never stop.

3.11

Transportation

Highways, bridges, transit and rail programs delivered in full public view, with commuters, councils and taxpayers watching.

3.12

Aviation

Terminals, airside works, hangars and airport modernisation delivered while flights, passengers and security keep moving.

3.13

Water & Wastewater

Treatment plants, conveyance and resilience programs that must meet regulatory dates while the plant keeps treating.

3.14

Power

Generation, transmission, renewables and storage — the infrastructure that the grid, and every new data center, is waiting on.

3.15

Oil & Gas

Upstream, midstream and downstream capital projects, plant outages and brownfield work in demanding, hazardous environments.

3.16

Government

Federal, state and municipal capital programs held to strict standards of compliance, transparency and stewardship.

Start with one conversation

See your finish from here.

Tell us where your project stands today. In one conversation with a senior practitioner you will know where it is really heading, what is driving it, and what it will take to land it.

  • Senior practitioner on the first call
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  • A straight answer, not a sales pitch