Cultural & Civic · New ConstructionCompleted 2022

Large Mammal Habitat

Animal transfer dates do not move. The habitat was built around them.

LocationYulee, FL

ClientConfidential

LocationYulee, FL

SectorCultural & Civic

Value$18M

Size8-acre habitat

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration12 months

StatusCompleted 2022

Why it mattered

Civic projects belong to the public, and the public notices when a date slips. Elected officials, donors and residents deserve a schedule that tells them the truth early.

The challenge

A conservation center built a new habitat for large mammals, with barns, water features and visitor viewing areas.

Animal transfers and quarantine periods were arranged with other institutions and set dates construction could not shift. Noise and activity near the animals had to be managed throughout.

Our role

CPM Scheduling Milestone Planning

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.

StartJul 2021

Duration12 months

HandoverJul 2022

Progress—

Respect the windowsMake permits milestonesReport for the publicWork to opening day

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 01Respect the windows

Environmental, seasonal and event windows built in as hard constraints from the first baseline.

PHASE 02Make permits milestones

Every agency approval tracked as a dated milestone with a named owner.

PHASE 03Report for the public

Progress reporting clear enough to share with residents, donors and elected officials without translation.

PHASE 04Work to opening day

The celebration date held as the critical finish, with every activity driving toward it.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01Quiet where it counted

Piling, demolition and other loud work were scheduled away from occupied enclosures and keeper-defined sensitive periods.

Result 02Ready before the trailers arrived

Barns, water features and fencing were signed off ahead of every planned transfer.

Result 03Open for the visitor season

Public viewing areas welcomed guests at the start of the season, as the center had planned.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

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.

2.01.11Milestone Planning

Milestone frameworks that align contracts, payments, regulators and teams around the few dates that truly count, with early warning when any of them is at risk.

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