Planning & Scheduling
Schedules your board can believe, your field can build to and your counterparties cannot take apart, written by planners who know where projects drift and when.
The finish line, visible from day one.
Every large project is waiting on a date. A hospital board has told the community when the new wing opens. A data center owner has sold capacity that does not exist yet. A lender has priced a commercial operation date into the debt. If the schedule behind that date is weak, everything downstream of it is exposed: cash flow, contracts, reputations, careers.
Schedola’s planners build schedules that show the future of a project early enough to change it. Logic that holds up when an expert reads it. Durations that come from quantities, crews and real productivity. A critical path that is reported honestly every period, including the periods when the news is bad. The result is calm: the people who run the work use the schedule, the people who fund it trust it, and nobody is surprised in month eighteen.
A good schedule is line of sight
It tells you where the project will be months from now, while there is still time, money and goodwill to change the answer.
Sound logic
Every activity is tied in for a reason. No open ends, no hard constraints masking risk, no float invented to make a date look comfortable.
Real durations
Durations worked out from quantities, crew sizes and observed productivity, never from the date someone hoped to hear.
Steady control
Disciplined updates that show what is happening on site now and what it means for the finish, early enough to act.
A clean record
Every revision documented and every change traceable, so the schedule stands up the day someone challenges it.
18 ways we see the finish
Engage one service, or the whole practice as an integrated team. Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner, start to finish.
Schedule development
5 servicesCritical Path Method schedules with complete logic, grounded durations and a critical path you can manage by, report on and defend.
01.02Baseline Schedule DevelopmentApproved baseline schedules that capture scope, sequence and commitments precisely, and give both parties a reference point they have actually agreed.
01.03Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)Integrated Master Schedules that connect design, procurement, construction and commissioning into a single program view, traceable from the boardroom summary down to the field.
01.04Bid & Tender SchedulesCompliant, convincing bid schedules that demonstrate command of the work, produced fast enough to meet the tender deadline.
01.05Milestone PlanningMilestone frameworks that align contracts, payments, stakeholders and teams around the dates that actually carry consequences.
Control, analysis & assurance
6 servicesDisciplined periodic updates that record real progress, reveal real trends and keep the schedule a working tool rather than a filed document.
01.07Critical Path AnalysisAnalysis of critical and near-critical paths that shows exactly where management attention and money will move the date.
01.08Schedule Health AssessmentDiagnostics against the DCMA 14-Point Assessment, GAO guidance and field experience that show how far your schedule can really be trusted.
01.09Schedule AuditsFormal, independent audits of schedules and scheduling practice for owners, lenders, insurers and boards who need assurance they can rely on.
01.10Schedule OptimizationAnalysis of sequence, logic and resources that shortens programs without compromising safety or quality.
01.11Recovery SchedulingCredible recovery plans for late projects, built quickly, grounded in what the site can really do and accepted by every party.
Resources & field planning
5 servicesLabor, equipment and cost loading that turns a schedule into a realistic plan for crews, machines and cash.
01.13Workforce PlanningWorkforce planning that forecasts, sources and sequences the skilled people your program depends on, before the schedule needs them.
01.14Pull PlanningFacilitated pull planning that builds reliable phase plans by working back from milestones with the trades themselves.
01.15Last Planner® SupportImplementation and coaching of the Last Planner® System to raise plan reliability and keep work flowing on site.
01.16Look-Ahead PlanningRolling look-ahead plans that turn the master schedule into ready, resourced, constraint-free work for the field.
Shutdowns, commissioning & startup
2 servicesHour-by-hour shutdown schedules that shorten outage windows and return critical assets to service safely and on time.
01.18Commissioning & Startup SchedulingSystem-based commissioning and startup schedules that carry facilities from mechanical completion to reliable operation.
Anyone can draw a schedule. The work is building one that is still telling the truth in year three.The Schedola standard
Markets this practice serves
3.01Data Centers
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.
3.02Mission Critical
Network hubs, operations and control centres, emergency services and secure facilities that are upgraded while they keep running.
3.07Healthcare
Hospitals, medical centres and research facilities built and renovated while care continues next door.
3.09Semiconductor
Fabs, cleanrooms and advanced packaging plants: some of the most complex and capital-intensive buildings ever attempted.
3.05Manufacturing
Advanced manufacturing, automotive, battery and gigafactory programs where the business case is written around the first saleable unit.
3.14Power
Generation, transmission, renewables and storage — the infrastructure that the grid, and every new data center, is waiting on.
3.11Transportation
Highways, bridges, transit and rail programs delivered in full public view, with commuters, councils and taxpayers watching.
3.12Aviation
Terminals, airside works, hangars and airport modernisation delivered while flights, passengers and security keep moving.
3.13Water & Wastewater
Treatment plants, conveyance and resilience programs that must meet regulatory dates while the plant keeps treating.
3.15Oil & Gas
Upstream, midstream and downstream capital projects, plant outages and brownfield work in demanding, hazardous environments.
Project Controls
One connected view of cost, time, change and progress, for a single project or a full capital plan.
Advisory & Assurance
Senior, independent advice for owners, boards and lenders, from the investment decision to handover.
Delay & Claims
Forensic delay analysis, time and money entitlement, and independent expert evidence that holds up under cross-examination.
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
- Confidential by default
- A straight answer, not a sales pitch
