Data Centers · New ConstructionCompleted 2025

Hyperscale Data Center Campus

Four contractor schedules reported on track. The campus was not, and nobody could see why.

LocationDallas-Fort Worth, TX

ClientConfidential

LocationDallas-Fort Worth, TX

SectorData Centers

Value$1.4B

Size3 data halls · campus

DeliveryCM at Risk

Duration34 months

StatusCompleted 2025

Why it mattered

In data centers, time is capacity and capacity is revenue. Ready-for-service dates are contractual, and a single unlinked dependency can hide months of risk behind a green report.

The challenge

A hyperscale operator was building a multi-building campus where each data hall carried a contracted ready-for-service date with tenants.

Every contractor reported green. But utility energization, switchgear deliveries and integrated systems testing had never been linked in one model, and our assessment found the true critical path running through work no single contractor owned.

Our role

Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)Schedule Health Assessment Recovery Scheduling Power BI Dashboards Commissioning & Startup Scheduling

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 2022

Duration34 months

HandoverJul 2025

Progress—

One critical pathTest the floatFollow the long leadsCommission to contract

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 01One critical path

Every contractor schedule integrated into one master, from utility energization to integrated systems testing.

PHASE 02Test the float

Independent schedule health assessments that expose float which does not really exist.

PHASE 03Follow the long leads

Switchgear, generators and cooling equipment tracked from factory slot to installation.

PHASE 04Commission to contract

Level 1 to 5 commissioning planned to meet every tenant ready-for-service date.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01One candid critical path

An integrated master schedule exposed the real path through energization and IST, and the gap sitting behind it.

Result 02Halls delivered to contract

Each data hall met its tenant ready-for-service date.

Result 03Weekly decisions

A weekly dashboard and recovery rhythm put choices in front of executives while those choices could still change the outcome.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Data Centers

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.

2.01.08Schedule Health Assessment

Independent diagnostics against DCMA 14-Point, GAO and AACE practice that tell you, in days, how far a schedule can be relied upon and what it will take to fix it.

2.01.05Recovery Scheduling

Recovery plans that restore control of late programs: diagnosed quickly, built on what is physically achievable and agreed by every party who must fund or deliver them.

2.05.01Power BI Dashboards

Fast, governed Power BI reporting built on sound semantic models, connected to your controls systems and designed around real decisions.

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.

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