Construction Solutions
Driving cost, schedule, and change discipline.
The Need
The Gap
Most projects know they are in trouble months after the data could have told them.
Cost lives in accounting, the schedule lives with one person, changes live in email, and the record is assembled at the end from whatever survived. Reporting describes the past accurately and the future optimistically. When a claim, a delay, or an audit arrives, the position that should be obvious has to be reconstructed, and the entitlement that existed at the time is no longer provable.
The Outcome
One control system carries cost, schedule, change, and the record together.
Leaders see a forecast rather than a status update, with cost and schedule tied to the same scope and the same assumptions. Changes are identified, priced, and dispositioned while the facts are fresh, the document record is built as the work happens rather than after it, and reporting gives executives the few numbers that actually drive a decision. The project can defend its position at any point without an archaeology exercise.
Feature
Perspective · Project Controls
Featured Insight
A schedule loses authority long before it is formally abandoned. This perspective looks at what quietly breaks belief in a construction date, and the discipline of one schedule, leading indicators, and honest recovery that rebuilds it.
How We Help
Cost & Forecasting
We set up and run cost control: budget structure and coding, commitments and exposure, contingency and allowance management, cash flow, earned value where it earns its keep, and a forecast rebuilt on current facts. Clients stop reading history and start seeing the landing point, with exposure visible early enough to act on and one forecast number that the project team and finance both recognize.
Schedule & Risk
CBC builds and maintains schedules that reflect how the work will actually be built, then runs progress and logic reviews, manages the critical path, and keeps a live risk register with owners and mitigations attached. Leadership gains a plan the field will work to, early warning wherever the sequence is fragile, and a clear line from each risk to the person responsible for retiring it.
Document Controls
We run the project record as the work happens: submittals, RFIs, drawings and revisions, correspondence, transmittals, meeting minutes, daily reports, and as-builts, all under one controlled structure. Current information reaches the field instead of a superseded sheet, closeout stops being a reconstruction exercise, and the documentation holds up the day your commercial position is questioned.
Change Management
Our team identifies, logs, prices, and drives change to disposition: potential change orders, entitlement and notice, cost and time impact analysis, negotiation support, and disciplined follow-through to execution. Clients resolve items while the facts are still available and documented at the time, so fewer items age into disputes and the few that do arrive with a complete, defensible file.
Reporting & Administration
We build the reporting layer executives actually use, from project dashboards to portfolio rollups, and supply the project administration underneath it so the data arrives clean and on time. Clients get one reporting rhythm with figures that reconcile across cost, schedule, and change, and reporting that no longer depends on someone rebuilding a spreadsheet the night before the meeting.
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The Project Lifecycle
Perspectives
Perspective · Project Controls & Governance
Closeout Starts on Day One:Building Better RecordsThe record is a design decision atgroundbreak, not a document dump at the end.
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Perspective · Capital Strategy & PMO
Capital Is a Living Discipline:The Case After SanctionThe business case does not die atapproval. Governance is what makes it hold.
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Perspective · Project & Program Management
Representation Means More Than Oversight:The Real Value to OwnersAn owner rep is inside the daily flow withdecision rights. Not a reporting seat.
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