Beatrice, 2015
One of the keys to successfully managing a renovation on a large college campus is dealing skillfully with scheduling concerns. There are a variety of ways to do this.
It is important, for example, to identify potential constraints early, build them into the project schedule, and include them in contractor agreements. Understanding that construction work was to be completed in a research lab, planners found it pivotal to connect with the dominant user groups, which were the researchers. Their schedules were reviewed, including when they would be using the labs or when they would be in their offices, and to ensure that schedules aligned to avoid project disruption or delay. This allowed project teams to plan ahead and ultimately create an accurate time frame that was included in contractor agreements.
