Cultural & Civic · InfrastructureCompleted 2024

Riverfront Plaza & Bulkhead Rehabilitation

A failing bulkhead, a long-awaited public plaza, and tides that set the pace for both.

LocationJacksonville, FL

ClientConfidential

LocationJacksonville, FL

SectorCultural & Civic

Value$62M

Size1,200 ft of bulkhead

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration22 months

StatusCompleted 2024

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 city set out to replace a failing river bulkhead and build a public plaza on top of it, something residents had been asking for over many years.

Marine work was governed by tides, permits and environmental windows, and the plaza could not start until the wall was finished. Losing a single in-water season would have pushed opening back by most of a year.

Our role

CPM Scheduling Milestone Planning Schedule Updates

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

Duration22 months

HandoverJul 2024

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 01Every in-water season used

Marine work finished inside its permitted windows, with no season lost.

Result 02Opening celebration held

The plaza opened on the date the city had planned its celebration around.

Result 03Public updates from the schedule

Resident-facing progress updates were drawn directly from the current schedule rather than written separately.

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.

2.01.06Schedule Updates

Disciplined periodic updates that capture verified progress, explain every movement and keep the schedule an instrument of command rather than a record of hope.

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