Planning, scheduling and monitoring

The baseline programme

Everything downstream depends on the baseline being right. We build the work breakdown structure, sequence the activities, assign durations from realistic productivity rates rather than optimistic ones, and establish the critical path.

A programme that was never achievable is worse than no programme at all: it destroys the reference point you need to prove delay later. We test the baseline against resources, procurement lead times and approval durations before it is issued.

Monitoring and variance

• Periodic progress measurement against baseline
• Critical path and float consumption tracking
• Schedule variance and cost variance reporting
• Look-ahead programmes for site coordination
• Early warning on activities trending toward delay
• Recovery and acceleration programmes

Delay analysis and extension of time

When a project runs late, the question is never simply whether it is late — it is who caused which part of the delay, and whether that delay affected the critical path. Extension of time claims succeed or fail on that analysis.

We prepare and assess EOT claims using the contemporaneous records: the baseline, the updated programmes, site instructions, approval dates and correspondence. The same method works whether we are supporting a client's rejection of a contractor's claim or building the claim itself.

Government project scheduling

We have scheduling and monitoring experience on works routed through KIIFB, HITES, WAPCOS and KSITIL. The reporting formats, approval chains and audit requirements on these projects are specific, and a programme that ignores them will not survive review.