Hospitality · New ConstructionIn progress · 2026

Downtown Hotel & Convention Tower

Conventions are booked years in advance. This hotel's opening was sold before the structure topped out.

LocationDallas, TX

ClientConfidential

LocationDallas, TX

SectorHospitality

Value$560M

Size1,000 keys

DeliveryCM at Risk

Duration38 months

StatusTarget 2026

Why it mattered

Hospitality depends on guests who should never know construction is happening, and on opening dates sold long before the building is finished.

The challenge

A developer is building a thousand-room convention hotel linked to the city's convention center.

Major conventions have already been booked around the opening date. A late opening would mean relocating events, with financial and reputational consequences for the developer and the city.

Our role

Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)Independent Schedule Reviews Forecasting

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.

StartMay 2023

Duration38 months

Target finishJul 2026

Progress—

Guests firstBookings as milestonesSequence FF&EIndependent assurance

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 01Guests first

Noise, access and room blocks planned around the guest day.

PHASE 02Bookings as milestones

Opening and room-return dates tied directly to reservations and events.

PHASE 03Sequence FF&E

Furniture and fit-out deliveries scheduled floor by floor against room readiness.

PHASE 04Independent assurance

Independent schedule reviews giving owners and lenders a view separate from the builder's.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01Bookings set the milestones

Each confirmed convention is held as a hard milestone, with float to it reported every month.

Result 02Independent comfort for lenders

A monthly independent schedule review gives the financing parties a view separate from the builder's own.

Result 03FF&E matched to rooms

Furniture deliveries are sequenced floor by floor against room readiness, keeping the loading dock clear.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

2.01.03Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)

Integrated Master Schedules that bind design, procurement, construction and commissioning into one traceable program view, from board summary to field activity.

2.03.07Independent Schedule Reviews

Objective, senior reviews of baseline and update schedules for owners, lenders and sponsors who need confidence in the dates they are relying on.

2.02.08Forecasting

Risk-informed schedule and cost forecasts, expressed as P50 and P80 ranges, that give executives an honest view of the finish date and final cost.

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