At BOOTS, scheduling is a fluid process the stretches from our earliest involvement until final completion. In preconstruction, we evaluate the scope and the client’s schedule expectations in light of anticipated complexities like long lead items. If we have concerns, we express them up front rather than agreeing to a schedule that can’t be achieved.
Our schedules tend to be conservatively tight – aggressive within realistic capacity but achievable. We develop a Critical Path Method schedule that can also be broken down into smaller segments to track specific project components, completion milestones, and inspection points. During construction, Superintendents manage the schedule by tracking progress, quality, and safety. Detailed trade look-aheads coordinate subcontractors, overlaps, and deliveries, ensuring clear communication and keeping the project on track while allowing for added resources if needed.
The schedule also serves as a communication tool keeping the tenant representatives, building owners, and project stakeholders appraised of progress and upcoming activities. This helps minimize construction impacts on other occupants while increasing safety protocols surrounding the construction.
Project closeout is often the most important in terms of the client’s final memory of the overall experience. BOOTS believes that staying onsite as long as necessary and finishing the punch list as quickly as possible is critical to client satisfaction, repeat business, and a positive reference.
