Construction Scheduling

Baseline Schedule Development

A reliable project begins with a credible plan.

Stoneboy develops baseline schedules that translate project scope, sequencing, contractual requirements, procurement, construction methodology and milestones into an executable programme of work. Our approach considers:

• Scope and work breakdown structure
• Contractual milestones
• Construction sequencing
• Design and procurement activities
• Interfaces and dependencies
• Calendars and productivity assumptions
• Resource considerations
• Commissioning and closeout
• Critical-path logic

The objective is not simply to produce a schedule that looks complete. It is to build a schedule that can actually be used to manage the project.

Schedule Updates & Progress Monitoring

A baseline schedule becomes valuable when it remains connected to what is actually happening in the field. Stoneboy supports regular schedule updates and progress analysis to help teams understand:

• What has been completed?
• What is late?
• What has changed?
• What is now critical?
• Where is the project heading?

We assess actual progress, forecast completion, emerging critical paths, milestone movement and the effect of project events on planned sequencing.

Recovery & Re-Baselining

When a project begins to slip, simply reporting that it is late is not enough. Stoneboy helps project teams assess the current position, identify the causes of schedule movement and develop practical recovery or re-baselining strategies.

• Revised sequencing
• Recovery logic
• Resequencing of activities
• Milestone reassessment
• Acceleration scenarios
• Updated assumptions
• Revised completion forecasts

The aim is to turn the schedule back into a management tool, rather than merely a record of delay.

Schedule Quality

Before relying on a schedule, understand whether the schedule itself can be relied upon. Schedule Quality is a core part of Stoneboy's scheduling practice.

We examine the underlying structure of the schedule, including logic, constraints, calendars, float, milestones, progress, out-of-sequence work, critical-path integrity and schedule maintenance.

A technically weak schedule can create poor forecasts during the project and unreliable conclusions later in a claim or dispute. Stoneboy therefore looks at schedule quality both proactively and forensically.

Schedule Specification Compliance

Many construction contracts contain detailed requirements governing how schedules must be prepared, updated and reported.

Stoneboy reviews schedules against contractual and specification requirements to identify gaps in format, logic, coding, reporting, updates, narratives and other schedule obligations.

This helps project teams identify compliance issues before they become commercial issues.

Forensic Scheduling

When delay or disruption has already occurred, scheduling moves from planning the future to understanding the past. Stoneboy performs forensic schedule analysis to help determine what happened, when it happened, which activities were affected, whether the affected work was critical, how the critical path changed, and what delay consequences followed. Our forensic work can support:

• Delay and disruption analysis
• Variation analysis
• Time Impact / Time Variation Analysis
• Claims preparation
• Claim review
• Expert and counsel support
• Formal dispute resolution

Schedule Quality remains important here: the reliability of the conclusions depends heavily on the reliability of the underlying schedule evidence.

MS1000 — Better Schedule Reporting

Stoneboy developed MS1000 to improve construction schedule reporting.

Construction schedules can contain thousands of activities, relationships, dates and data points. Yet standard schedule outputs often make it difficult for non-schedulers to understand what has actually changed. MS1000 turns complex schedule information into clearer, more decision-useful reporting around:

The depth of a professional schedule. The clarity needed to make decisions.

When Scheduling Becomes a Commercial Issue

Schedule problems often do not stay schedule problems.

A missed milestone may originate in a scope change. A design delay may create additional time and cost. A sequence change may lead to disruption. An unreliable schedule may later become evidence in a claim.

Stoneboy's wider PMD capability allows scheduling issues to be examined alongside variation, scope, cost, quantum, damages and contemporaneous project records when required.