Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling and Cost Controls Management are essential tools for successful project management. By utilizing a properly detailed baseline schedule network updated and analyzed periodically with actual progress, project owners can efficiently plan their work, track progress, manage and quantify impacts, and project future needs. RAI has a wealth of technical experience and training across all construction disciplines that provides our clients with the most innovative and state of the art scheduling and cost solutions. RAI’s work product is generally prepared using the latest scheduling software, customized to the client’s needs, using Primavera and MS Project. RAI’s scheduling services include:
- Strategic and Phase Planning
- Master Schedule Development
- Integration of Multiple Schedules for Program Development
- Baseline Schedule Development
- Periodic Schedule Updates and Narratives
- Acceleration and Recovery Schedules
- Cost, Resource, and Manhour Loading
- Resource Curves, Forecast, and Planning
- Preparation of Schedule Reports and Trend Analysis
- Cost Planning, Control, and Analysis
- Time Impact Analysis
- Contemporaneous Window Analysis
- Forensic Schedule Analysis
- Expert Testimony
- Review and Oversight of Schedules Prepared by Others
Contrary to many scheduling professionals, all scheduling engineers employed by RAI have a diverse and detailed background in the construction industry, are members of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE), and either have attained or are pursuing their Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification.