Restoring a hyperscale campus to a defensible energization date
Four contractor schedules, one utility path and no shared critical path. An integrated master schedule and a weekly recovery cadence gave the owner command of the date again.
Every schedule reported float. The campus had none.
The owner of a multi-building campus received monthly schedules from each of its contractors, and each reported comfortable float to completion. None of them modeled the utility interconnection, the switchgear and transformer deliveries and the commissioning sequence together, and leadership suspected the contracted energization date was at risk without being able to show where or by how much.
Program reviews had become debates about whose schedule was right. Decisions on equipment release and commissioning priority were waiting on an answer nobody could give.
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How we turned it around
We built one integrated view of the program, tested it, and used it to drive recovery decisions every week.
The difference we made
The owner regained a single, defensible forecast and a recovery plan with named commitments behind it.
Leadership could see the controlling path from interconnection through integrated systems testing, and how it moved each week.
Long-lead equipment risk surfaced while alternative suppliers and sequences were still available.
Executive reviews shifted from reconciling schedules to choosing between costed recovery options.
For the first time, everyone in the room was arguing about the same critical path, and then we stopped arguing.Representative client perspective
Command the date you announced.
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