Construction Scheduling & Project Controls

Schedules your
team can build on.

Defensible CPM baselines, disciplined monthly updates, and independent schedule health checks — built by experienced project controls professionals and reviewed before they ever reach your owner.

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P6 · MS Project Senior-Led Health-Checked LA · IE · OC · San Diego

Podium Deck — Level 23-Week Look-Ahead

Shore / reshore

Form deck

Rebar / PT

MEP sleeves

Pour slab

Cure / strip

On trackCritical path

What we deliver

Project controls, end to end.

From the first baseline to monthly recovery analysis — clear deliverables and a defined scope.

Baseline CPM Schedules

Logic-driven critical path schedules in P6 or MS Project — documented basis, realistic durations, clean coding, ready for owner approval.

Native file · Gantt PDF · Schedule basis

Monthly Updates & Look-Aheads

Progress updates with three-week look-aheads your field can run from, plus variance against baseline so nothing slips quietly.

Progress · 3-week LAH · Variance

Schedule Health Checks

Independent quality checks against the DCMA 14-point benchmark — catching open ends, bad constraints, and broken logic before they become claims.

Health score · Logic · Critical path

Delay Analysis & Recovery

Time impact analysis, as-built comparisons, and recovery schedules — with clear narratives of what happened and how to recover.

TIA · As-built · Recovery

How it works

A clear path from kickoff to handoff.

01 / DEFINE

Scope & Setup

We lock the deliverable, milestones, and reporting cadence in writing — so the fee is fixed and nothing is ambiguous.

02 / BUILD

Baseline

We build the CPM schedule, document the basis, and run it through QA before you ever see it.

03 / UPDATE

Update & QA

Monthly progress, look-aheads, and an independent health check on every submission — reviewed before delivery.

04 / DELIVER

Reporting

Clean files, clear narratives, and variance you can hand straight to your owner or lender.

DirectOne Point of Contact

One experienced scheduler owns your project end to end.

QA'dHealth-Checked

Every schedule passes an independent quality check.

P6+MSPDual Platform

Primavera P6 and MS Project, your choice.

ClearDeliverables

Defined scope and clear deliverables on every engagement.

Why Datum

Built to be the reference point.

Owner-reviewed quality control
Every schedule passes an independent health check before it reaches you.
Clear scope, clear deliverables
You know exactly what you're getting before we start — changes become clear change orders.
Senior-level planners
Experienced planners who speak the language of your GC, owner, and lender.
Fast, reliable turnaround
Predictable monthly cycles your team can plan around.

Schedule health · sample

Every submission, scored.

96Health Score

Logic ✓ Float ✓ Critical path ✓ Open ends 0

DCMA 14-Point Schedule Review

A deeper look at schedule quality before it reaches your owner.

We review CPM schedules against the DCMA 14-point framework to identify missing logic, excessive float, invalid dates, constraints, missed tasks, and critical path issues before they become owner comments, delay disputes, or recovery problems.

Logic

Activities missing predecessors or successors — open-ended logic.

Leads

Negative lag that compresses the schedule and distorts the path.

Lags

Relationships padded with lag instead of real activities.

Relationship Types

Over-reliance on links other than Finish-to-Start.

Hard Constraints

Date constraints that override and mask true logic.

High Float

Total float beyond reasonable limits, hinting at broken logic.

Negative Float

Activities already behind, signaling at-risk delivery.

High Duration

Oversized tasks that hide detail and reduce control.

Invalid Dates

Forecast or actual dates falling in the wrong data-date period.

Resources

Activities missing the cost or resource loading they need.

Missed Tasks

Work slipping behind the approved baseline.

Critical Path Test

Integrity check that the longest path behaves correctly.

Critical Path Length Index

CPLI — efficiency needed to finish on the contract date.

Baseline Execution Index

BEI — the rate of work actually completed versus planned.

Sectors we specialize in

Schedules built for how your project actually gets built.

Two core markets where sequencing is everything — plus the adjacent work we take on.

Multifamily

Podium decks, post-tension and conventional slabs, shoring and reshoring cycles, and tight pour-and-cure windows. We build look-aheads around the deck-cycle cadence that actually drives a multifamily job — sequencing concrete, framing, MEP rough-in, and gypcrete cure so cure times, inspections, and trade hand-offs are planned in advance instead of discovered in the field.

Podium & wrapSlab · PT · reshoringDeck-cycle look-aheads

Commercial

Ground-up commercial, core-and-shell, and tenant improvement. We coordinate long-lead equipment, structural and MEP rough-in, and the inspection chain so the critical path reflects the trades and approvals that genuinely drive the completion date — not just the bars that look longest.

Core & shellLong-lead trackingInspection sequencing

Realistic upscale hotel lobby under construction and finishing work

Hospitality

Hotels, resorts, and renovations where a fixed opening date drives everything. We sequence repetitive guestroom floors, long-lead FF&E and kitchen equipment, mockup-room approvals, and back-of-house buildout so the brand opening — and its first bookings — lands on schedule.

Guestroom cyclesFF&E & long-leadOpening-date driven

Also serving

Mixed-UsePublic Works Tenant ImprovementIndustrial

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Let's pressure-test your schedule.

Send us your project and we'll tell you exactly what we'd deliver and what it costs — clear scope, clear deliverables.

EMAIL
info@datumprojectcontrols.com

PHONE
(909) 240-2816

SERVICE AREA
Los Angeles · Inland Empire · Orange County · San Diego

Schedules yourteam can build on.