The firm is responsible for the construction management (including schedule and cost control analysis) of various sections/areas requiring storm water improvements as part of SFWMD’s ACCELER8 Program. After review and approval by the construction management team, each individual construction schedule then becomes a part of a master schedule that is coordinated with other on-going projects and future projects. This is a P3e/c schedule created, revised, and monitored by the district’s internal scheduling team. This schedule is cost loaded with design, land acquisition, permitting, and construction budgets. The schedule is updated monthly, reviewed, and reported on by our staff to ensure the overall program timeline is still on course.
The ACCELER8 program is an Everglades Restoration effort committed by a federal/state/local partnership to expedite the progress of eight restoration projects that will revitalize the Florida ecosystem. The projects consist of labor, equipment & materials to construct additional storm water treatment flow way for various areas identified by the program. The work will include the construction of canals, levees, flow control structures, the restoration of 55,000 acres of failed development, degrading of existing roads and beams, and filling of existing ditches and canals.
The firm is also responsible for a number of scheduling related activities. To date, there have been no cost overruns, no claims and no delays to the schedule. Our teams schedule related tasks run parallel with the tasks of the Construction Management (CM)/Construction Inspection Service (CIS) team. The procedure occurs as follows: After receiving the Notice to Proceed, the Contractor has ten (10) working days to submit the original base line schedule; it must be “cost loaded”. This schedule is presented in P3e or in Primavera Contractor. At this time, our staff has another ten (10) calendar days to review and compare our comments with the CM/CIS. This review is made by running Integrity Check to detect activities that do not have relationships and to follow the logic and duration of the project. After the review is completed the CM/CIS team will present the Owner with their recommendations for acceptance. Most of our projects have several substantial completion dates that must be met. This first review process must be completed before the first pay request is submitted by the Contractor since the Schedule is part of the submittal. After the Base line is accepted by the Owner for duration and logic, the Contractor will submit with each pay application an updated version of the schedule. This review is conducted by running the updated schedule through CLAIM DIGGER; this tool of P3e or Primavera Contractor will allow our staff to compare all changes made to the updated schedule to the latest accepted base line schedule on file. Next, our staff will run the INTEGRITY CHECK; this tool detects the relationship of the activities of the program and flags any that have been changed as a result of readjustment of the data input made every month.
Finally, our staff filters the schedule to print and review it to show Critical Path on each Substantial Completion mile stone and final project.