Water & Wastewater · InfrastructureIn progress · 2026

Regional Water System Improvements Program

Nine projects share one pool of funding, one set of outage windows and one community. They have to be run as one.

LocationNew Boston, TX

ClientConfidential

LocationNew Boston, TX

SectorWater & Wastewater

Value$310M

Size9 projects · 1 program

DeliveryProgressive Design-Build

Duration54 months

StatusTarget 2026

Why it mattered

Water infrastructure is invisible until it fails. These programs protect public health for decades and must be built while every tap keeps running, under the scrutiny of ratepayers and funding agencies.

The challenge

A regional water district is modernizing treatment, transmission and storage for the communities it serves, through a multi-year program of nine projects.

The projects share funding sources, contractors and outage windows. When we were engaged, each was scheduled on its own, so a delay on one could quietly consume another's outage window or funding draw without anyone seeing it happen.

Our role

Program Controls Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)Cost Controls 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.

StartJan 2022

Duration54 months

Target finishJul 2026

Progress—

Structure the programMatch cash to fundingPlan the live tie-insKeep a defensible record

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 01Structure the program

Projects, funding sources, permits and outage windows integrated into one master schedule.

PHASE 02Match cash to funding

Cost forecasts aligned to state and federal draws and board approval cycles, so committed money keeps working.

PHASE 03Plan the live tie-ins

Bypasses and service outages placed in low-demand seasons, each with a tested contingency.

PHASE 04Keep a defensible record

Contemporaneous schedule records maintained to withstand any audit, review or claim.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01One program schedule

All nine projects and their shared constraints sit in a single master, so knock-on effects appear in the period they occur.

Result 02Cash matched to funding

Cost forecasts are aligned to state and federal draw schedules, keeping committed funds working rather than idle.

Result 03Outages planned program-wide

Service outages are coordinated across every project to protect customers and avoid stacking.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Water & Wastewater

2.02.02Program Controls

Program-level controls that bind multiple projects, contractors and funding sources into a single picture sponsors can steer by.

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.

2.02.04Cost Controls

Budget structure, commitment tracking and cost-to-complete forecasting that protect contingency and keep the final cost the one you approved.

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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