Education · New ConstructionCompleted 2023

International School Campus

Three countries, four languages, and one question the owner could not answer: is August real?

LocationHanoi, Vietnam

ClientConfidential

LocationHanoi, Vietnam

SectorEducation

Value$88M

Size452,000 sq ft · 5 stories

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration26 months

StatusCompleted 2023

Why it mattered

Campuses run on dates that do not move: the first day of school, the start of term, the opening game. We plan backward from those days and tell boards early, and plainly, whether they will hold.

The challenge

A new international school campus brought together an owner, designers and contractors working across three countries and four languages.

Each party coded and reported progress its own way. The owner received plenty of updates, but no two could be reconciled, so nobody could say with confidence whether the August opening would hold.

Our role

Schedule Health Assessment Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)Planning & Scheduling Training

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 2021

Duration26 months

HandoverJul 2023

Progress—

Fix the finishRetire the unknowns earlyReport in plain languagePlan move-in as work

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 01Fix the finish

The academic calendar set as the immovable completion, with every milestone worked backward from it.

PHASE 02Retire the unknowns early

Ground conditions, permits and long-lead items confronted in the first sixty days, while there is still time to react.

PHASE 03Report in plain language

Monthly updates and one-page summaries written for boards, faculty and donors, not just for builders.

PHASE 04Plan move-in as work

Furniture, technology, labs and faculty move-in scheduled as a critical sequence of their own.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01A shared standard

A common schedule specification and coding structure put every partner's reporting on the same basis within two update cycles.

Result 02August opening achieved

The campus welcomed its first students on the planned date.

Result 03Capability left behind

Owner staff were trained to run schedule reviews on their own after handover.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

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.

2.01.03Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)

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

2.06.03Planning & Scheduling Training

Software-neutral training in scope breakdown, logic, durations, float, the critical path, updating and schedule quality.

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