Education · New ConstructionCompleted 2022

Skilled Trades & Electrical Apprenticeship Center

A building where future electricians learn their trade, ready for the first apprentices on their first morning.

LocationOrlando, FL

ClientConfidential

LocationOrlando, FL

SectorEducation

Value$34M

Size58,000 sq ft

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration17 months

StatusCompleted 2022

Why it mattered

Schools and universities run on dates that do not move: the first day of term, the start of semester, the first home game. The schedule has to be built backwards from those days, because students and families have already planned around them.

The challenge

A state college and its industry partners funded a dedicated electrical apprenticeship center. The grant required the first cohort to start in a named semester.

Midway through, switchgear and lighting lead times doubled, and the original opening date began to look like a guess.

Our role

Schedule Updates Time Impact Analysis (TIA)Look-Ahead Planning

Schedule at a glance

The whole job, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's date.

StartFeb 2021

Duration17 months

HandoverJul 2022

Progress—

Start from the first dayResolve the unknowns earlyReport in plain languagePlan the move-in

How we kept it on course

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04

PHASE 01Start from the first day

The academic calendar fixed as the finish, with every milestone planned backwards from it.

PHASE 02Resolve the unknowns early

Ground conditions, approvals and long-lead items dealt with in the first two months.

PHASE 03Report in plain language

Monthly updates and short summaries for boards, faculty and donors.

PHASE 04Plan the move-in

Furniture, technology, laboratories and staff moves treated as a critical sequence of their own.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: did the project land where we said it would.

Result 01Cohort started on time

Apprentices began training in the committed semester, keeping the grant intact.

Result 02Alternates qualified early

Substitute equipment was approved with its schedule effect modeled before each decision.

Result 03A schedule worth studying

The college now uses the project schedule as a case study in its construction management courses.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

01.06Schedule Updates

Disciplined periodic updates that record real progress, reveal real trends and keep the schedule a working tool rather than a filed document.

04.02Time Impact Analysis (TIA)

Prospective and contemporaneous time impact analyses that model a specific event in the current schedule and show its effect on completion and key milestones.

01.16Look-Ahead Planning

Rolling look-ahead plans that turn the master schedule into ready, resourced, constraint-free work for the field.

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