Plan construction sequences and spot delays early
Construction companies plan construction sequences and spot delays early
Fits: Leaders & strategy · Field service & trades
You see which trades really determine the completion date and where the float is. Delays show up weeks earlier, while subcontractors, deliveries and crews can still be rescheduled.
Is this for you?
- You run several projects in parallel, and construction schedules are drawn up at the start and then hardly ever updated.
- Daily site reports, progress figures and delivery dates are available digitally or could be recorded that way.
- Today you usually notice a delay only when the next trade is already standing at the gate.
Take the construction schedule of an ongoing or completed project, without the client and address. Write out ten to fifteen activities with duration in working days, predecessors and actual progress, and use the template below to calculate the critical path and the expected completion date. Compare this with your own estimate.
How to go about it
- Define dates, activities and dependencies
- Collect capacities and actual progress
- Have the sequence and completion forecast calculated
- Check the forecast with the site manager and foreman
- Pass the revised plan to trades and the client
- Compare planned and actual weekly
Templates to copy
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BA-05 · Legal status 08.10.2026