Semiconductor · ExpansionCompleted 2024

Advanced Packaging Cleanroom Expansion

A new cleanroom beside a live production floor, where improvisation was never an option.

LocationTaylor, TX

ClientConfidential

LocationTaylor, TX

SectorSemiconductor

Value$310M

Size120,000 sq ft cleanroom

DeliveryCM at Risk

Duration24 months

StatusCompleted 2024

Why it mattered

In advanced technology and life sciences, the building is an instrument. Utilities, cleanrooms and validation must be right the first time, because the equipment and products that follow are worth far more than the structure.

The challenge

A semiconductor company expanded its advanced packaging cleanroom alongside operating production.

Cleanliness protocols, vibration limits and live-plant tie-ins left no margin for decisions made on the fly. Every activity near production needed its sequence, duration and controls agreed in advance.

Our role

CPM Scheduling Shutdown & Turnaround Scheduling Commissioning & Startup Scheduling Schedule Updates

Schedule at a glance

The whole program, on one line.

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

StartJul 2022

Duration24 months

HandoverJul 2024

Progress—

Utilities firstOwn the interfacesCoordinate dailyQualify and validate

How we held the date

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 01Utilities first

Utility systems sequenced to be commissioned before tool or process installation begins.

PHASE 02Own the interfaces

Hundreds of contractor interfaces held as dated, owned milestones in one integrated schedule.

PHASE 03Coordinate daily

Look-ahead planning that aligns thousands of daily workers in constrained spaces.

PHASE 04Qualify and validate

Commissioning, qualification and validation built into the schedule from the first baseline.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: whether the date and the budget held.

Result 01Certified first time

The cleanroom met its ISO classification at first certification.

Result 02Production untouched

Construction did not interrupt live production at any point.

Result 03Tools in on the owner's date

Tool move-in began on the date the owner had planned.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Semiconductor

2.01.01CPM Scheduling

Critical Path Method schedules engineered so that every date has a reason, every float value means something and every forecast can be trusted in a boardroom.

2.01.14Shutdown & Turnaround Scheduling

Hour-by-hour shutdown and turnaround schedules that compress outage windows and return critical assets to service safely, on the date operations committed to.

2.01.15Commissioning & Startup Scheduling

System-based commissioning and startup schedules that carry facilities from mechanical completion to reliable operation without the familiar last-mile slip.

2.01.06Schedule Updates

Disciplined periodic updates that capture verified progress, explain every movement and keep the schedule an instrument of command rather than a record of hope.

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