Food & Beverage · New ConstructionCompleted 2023

Beverage Bottling Plant

Distribution contracts were signed before ground was broken. The plant had twenty-two months to catch up.

LocationJalisco, Mexico

ClientConfidential

LocationJalisco, Mexico

SectorFood & Beverage

Value$230M

Size500,000 sq ft

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration22 months

StatusCompleted 2023

Why it mattered

Food and beverage plants live by market windows: peak season, retail launches, distribution contracts. A schedule that misses the window does not lose weeks; it loses the year.

The challenge

A beverage producer built a greenfield bottling plant to serve a growing regional market, with distribution contracts already in force.

Imported high-speed lines, local permitting and a binational team produced three different views of the same program. The owner needed one baseline that both sides of the team trusted and would defend.

Our role

Baseline Schedule Development CPM Scheduling Commissioning & Startup Scheduling Executive Reporting

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.

StartSep 2021

Duration22 months

HandoverJul 2023

Progress—

Protect productionPut equipment on the pathIntegrate the vendorsValidate and ramp

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 01Protect production

Shutdowns placed in low-demand periods, with every outage planned to the hour.

PHASE 02Put equipment on the path

Process equipment tracked from factory slot to setting on its foundation.

PHASE 03Integrate the vendors

Line vendors, automation and building trades working to one critical path.

PHASE 04Validate and ramp

Line trials, food-safety validation and ramp-up scheduled as real work with real durations.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01First bottle inside the window

Production started within the window committed to distributors.

Result 02Lines brought up in turn

Installation was staggered so each line earned revenue while the next was commissioned.

Result 03Reports in two languages

Schedules and narratives were issued in English and Spanish, so no decision waited on translation.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Food & Beverage

2.01.02Baseline Schedule Development

Approved baselines that capture scope, sequence and risk with precision: the fixed reference against which every future decision, dollar and day is judged.

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.

2.01.15Commissioning & Startup Scheduling

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

2.02.09Executive Reporting

Concise, candid, decision-grade reporting for boards, executives, lenders and public stakeholders.

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