PROJECT CONTROLS

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Project Controls integrates scheduling, costing, resource management and risk management to provide a comprehensive update or forecast on the life and status of your project.

PROJECT CONTROL SERVICES WE OFFER

Project Controls is the critical element of project management, as it provides the hard data needed to make educated decisions on ever-changing construction projects. Project Controls are the data gathering, data management and analytical processes used to predict, understand and constructively influence the time and cost outcomes of a project, through the communication of information in formats that assist effective management and decision making. At VLW Group our staff ensures you have the proper information to guide and assist you in making the best decisions on your project.

SCHEDULING

We do not just create schedules for your project, we create plans to help your project succeed. Efficient and accurate project planning is critical to successful projects. We want to ensure that you have a plan that comprehensively includes all phases of work from design to closeout. We offer scheduling expertise for every level of scheduling required.
BASELINE

Baseline schedules are the most critical element of the process, and we provide the needed experience to develop a baseline that fully captures the scope of work for your project. We ensure your baseline schedule realistically maps out all aspects from design, preconstruction, construction, and all relevant milestones. We continue working with you as we transform the baseline schedule to a working functioning schedule.
PROGRESS UPDATES

Progress schedules are key to evaluating the health of your project. The ability to accurately reflect the progress of the schedule and forecast potential risk and delays are critical to ensuring you are fully in control of your project. There are many factors in updating a schedule, such as updated schedule logic, project sequencing , productivity rates and unforseen field conditions that are taken into account in progress update schedules.
FORENSIC SCHEDULING

Unfortunately, every project does not go as planned and there are situations in which investigatons must be undertaken to develop a full understanding of what went wrong with the project. Forensic scheduling is the study and investigation of events using scheduling methods to establish the cause and events of delays and to resolve construction delay claims through negotiations or legal proceedings.
COST ESTIMATING

Estimating is essntial in making sure you have a solid understanding of the financial undertaking required to complete your project prior to the start of construction. We hold ourselves highly accountable in porviding our contractors with precise and timely estimating services. Our well trained estimators have years of experience in the building industry and will provide you and your customers with an accurate view of your projects cost and timetables.
COST REPORTING

Cost reporting captures all forecasts, deviations, and changes of a project to ensure the owner has a full understanding of the financial health of a project. Owners can use cost reporting data to ensure that spending trends are within budgeting guidelines. Contractors can use cost reporting to be able to effectively communicate cost to owners that can lead to scope changes. We pinpoint spending and billing through Cost and Earned Value Management procedures to identify trends and create sccurate projectionsof future costs.
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

A resource management plan is used to identify and reserve resources to meet the objectives and requirements of your project. While balancing scheduling and budget requirements, we are able to develop the most effective resource plan to make your project a success.
RISK MANAGEMENT

Our expertise in Project Management allows us to identify potential risk. We use experience and data to identify, evaluate and prioritize potential project risk to minimize the imapact of those risk and evalute the probability.