Healthcare · ExpansionCompleted 2022

Hospital Central Laundry Expansion

Every clean sheet on a major medical campus passes through this plant. It nearly doubled in capacity without a lost shift.

LocationJacksonville, FL

ClientConfidential

LocationJacksonville, FL

SectorHealthcare

Value$38M

Size72,000 sq ft

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration16 months

StatusCompleted 2022

Why it mattered

In a working plant, the most expensive thing on site is downtime. The schedule's job is to let construction happen without production ever feeling it.

The challenge

A large medical campus needed to nearly double its central laundry capacity to keep pace with new beds and operating rooms. The plant ran around the clock, every day of the year.

Tunnel washers, dryers and conveyors had to be installed and commissioned beside live production. Every hour of downtime was bought back through third-party processing, at a premium the owner could read on each invoice.

Our role

CPM Scheduling Shutdown & Turnaround Scheduling Commissioning & Startup Scheduling Progress Measurement

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.

StartMar 2021

Duration16 months

HandoverJul 2022

Progress—

Learn the plantScript the tie-insBring vendors insideRamp to throughput

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 01Learn the plant

Production calendars, critical utilities and acceptable outage windows mapped with operations before logic is drawn.

PHASE 02Script the tie-ins

Every connection to the live process planned to the hour, each with a tested fallback.

PHASE 03Bring vendors inside

Equipment fabrication and delivery held as schedule activities, not in separate spreadsheets.

PHASE 04Ramp to throughput

Startup, trials and handover sequenced to reach full output on the target date.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01Downtime confined to plan

Tie-ins landed in scripted weekend windows, each with a tested fallback if a cutover ran long.

Result 02Vendors inside the schedule

Fabrication and delivery were tracked as schedule activities, so a late shipment registered as float consumed rather than as a surprise on site.

Result 03Capacity ahead of demand

The new line reached full throughput before the next patient tower opened its doors.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Healthcare

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.

2.02.06Progress Measurement

Quantity-based, field-verified progress measurement that turns physical work into numbers owners, lenders and auditors will accept.

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