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Hi, My name is Don Santos! Welcome to our weblog.
I realized years ago, as a superintendent, that successful construction management boiled down to 3 steps:- Creating a valid CPM schedule baseline
- Updating and archiving the CPM schedule weekly
- Performing the CPM schedule
A technically valid CPM schedule baseline and weekly updates can be used to model and mirror a project with impressive accuracy. Thereby, advanced scheduling and change management strategies can be used to keep the contract, the project, and the schedule in-sync.
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We created this weblog to share profound construction management strategies.
Mary and I have been together for 31 years; married for 27, and working in the construction industry for 23. I started my construction career as a commercial carpenter. Mary’s construction experience comes from building residential properties.
In 1992 we founded Hybrid Homes Inc (a company we still own today). We built healthy high performing homes for the future. We were into green home building before it was cool. We were building custom homes with structural insulated panel systems (SIPS) for exterior walls and steel framed interior walls, with open HVAC systems (air exchangers). The homes were ultra high performing relative to energy consumption, practically sound proof, and dust free. We learned that we were a bit ahead of the curve and that demand for truly high tech homes was further out in the future.
It was during those years that we discovered CPM scheduling. I remember being so excited about it that I couldn’t sleep. You can probably relate to that, if you have ever been a superintendent/project manager/construction manager, responsible for building a project on-time, and on budget; without the know-how, or the how-to, to organize and control all the various parts and pieces of the project.
We started out with Primavera’s SureTrak – not known for being user friendly. We found the learning process to be slow, but very rewarding. After years of struggling to figure out how to organize our projects, we knew that we had found the right tool.
While Mary took a few years off to be a full time mom, I honed my scheduling skills working as a superintendent on large and complex commercial buildings. Five years later, I transitioned to P3 and was working on multi-billion dollar programs. Make no mistake; CPM scheduling is at the heart of construction management. Yet, I could have never made such progress without deep, hands on, trade and trade management experience. We feel today, it is the combination of the two skill-sets that distinguishes our CM/project controls approach from others. Most schedulers out there are software jockeys. They lack construction experience and have to be assisted by others to create a baseline or update and existing schedule.
That scheduling model undermines the schedulers ability to build and maintain a schedule effectively. We founded CPM Schedules LP. in 2011 to provide construction management services grounded in the valid CPM schedule.
We have been working with CPM schedules for 15 years. Our focus is entirely on:
Are you currently in need of CPM scheduling services, or training for you CM staff? We look forward to hearing more about your business and answering any questions you may have related to our services. Please contact us via email: mts@cpmschedules.com, or call us at: 434-286-2984.
We can provide you with world class CPM scheduling products, including: Baselines/Updates/Reviews/TIA’s/and Claims avoidance consulting and CPM training. With extensive trade and trade management experience; CPM Schedules LP. is particularly suited to create, maintain, and facilitate, project recovery/turnaround products. We have extensive experience on both sides of the contract, and our clients include federal government agencies like the DOD, DOE, DOS, GSA, state and local agencies, top tier A&E’s & GC’s as well as various smaller entities.
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