ICS-FACILITATION

Construction Project Time Management requires the practical application of selected Project Time Management principles, concepts, processes, tools, and personnel to real world construction conditions and needs. ICS-Facilitation is the business group within ICS‑Global that helps its clients (Owners, Contractors, Consultants) consistently achieve superior project outcomes.

ICS-Facilitation’s Contribution to Construction Project Time Management

No matter the industry, successful Project Management always boils down to four PM Performance Requirements: Collaboration, Coordination, Cooperation, and Communication. This explains why Project Time Management is central to overall Project Management. Its key work product, the Project Schedule, facilitates all four PM Performance Requirements .

ICS-Facilitation, the flagship business group within ICS-Global that has ultimate oversight responsibility for all client products and services, is staffed by our most qualified and experienced construction project management members. Collectively, they have had hands-on experience on over 225 construction projects worldwide, across 37 distinct project types valued at over $24 billion. Couple their construction experience with their Project Time Management expertise and you are getting the best possible support for your company’s Construction PTM initiatives.

ICS-Facilitation’s Operational Divisions

Client requests for Construction PTM assistance can be divided into two general categories — Per-Project and Multi-Project/Corporate. We created ICS-Scheduling to handle per-project support services. ICS-Consulting attends to multi-project or corporate needs for guidance and support in developing better Construction PTM in-house.

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ICS-Scheduling provide these project-specific Construction PTM products and services that are timely, accurate, insightful:

  • Project Planning: We pioneered the field of Strategic Project Planning, by formalizing the processes of Feasibility Planning, Optimization Planning, Consensus Planning, and Commitment Planning.
  • Project Scheduling: We offer a full range of products and services spanning Schedule Design, Schedule Development, Schedule Maintenance, and Schedule Usage.
  • Change Management: We do more than just produce Time Impact Analyses (“TIAs”). We have developed unique ways to continuously monitor for time-impacting changes in scope or conditions, which we then analyze, quantify, and unequivocally explain.
  • Dispute Resolution: We will stack up our construction claims services against the biggest, best, and most successful construction claims consultants in the business.
  • Bottom Line Reduction Programs: Designed to spare the Contractor’s Project Budget, we offer SLIDE Squad, LAND Support, Scheduler’s Lifeline, and PM Overwatch.

ICS-Scheduling offers a range of support options, suitable for any project management need, including Staff Augmentation, Project Direct Support Services, and various Bottom Line Protection Programs (e.g., SLIDE, LAND, Scheduler’s Lifeline, PM Overwatch).

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ICS-Consulting provides guidance and assistance to its Owner, Contractor, Design Professional, Surety, and Construction Manager clients in development or improvement of their in-house Construction Project Time Management capabilities. We accomplish this through a variety of programs.

  • Scheduling Specifications Writing: Scheduling Specifications are only effective if they are tailored to both the Project Scope as well as the Project Execution Strategy.
  • DAWN: ICS-Research has developed the Disruptive Adverse Weather Neutralizer, a unique methodology that dismisses excessive Adverse Weather as a factor in Adverse Weather Management.
  • Project Performance Assessments: We are sometimes retained to determine why a given project is struggling to meet cost, quality, safety, or temporal goals.
  • Project Surveillance: Far less frequently, we may be retained to go undercover in order to determine why project management reports don’t square with ultimate project achievement.
  • Construction PTM Stand-Up: Most often, we are retained to guide in the creation of a new CPTM operation.
  • Construction PTM Process Improvement: Many times, we are retained to help a client improve its ongoing Construction PTM program.
  • Construction Technical Proposal Support: Often, bidders are asked to describe their Project Execution Strategy as part of their Technical Volume. We offer an affordable service to provide the PTM component.
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ICS-Automation is exclusively responsible for development and production of proprietary software programs which computerize various ICS-Research solutions to disruptive Construction PTM challenges. Of special note, ICS-Automation is the technical incubator for a number of state-of-the-art software programs that are destined to dramatically and permanently change the way that Construction Project Time Management is performed in North America.

  • AWSim: Disruptive Adverse Weather Neutralizer is a methodology from the ICS-Research Think Tank. This methodology will simplify the processes of accounting for Adverse Weather and automatically adjusting contractual deadlines within the Project Schedule. While DAWN can be administered manually, ICS-Automation is developing a software application, called AWSim, which will automate major aspects of the methodology. AWsim stands for Adverse Weather Simplified.
  • SchedSpec: This proprietary software will draft a customized Scheduling Specification for each unique project, based on answers to a series of structured online questions..
  • Project Navigator: We are excited about the anticipated launch of Project Launch, proprietary software that will provide the construction industry with a robust yet simplified Scheduling Software alternative.
  • Project PlotR: Built into Project Navigator, Project PlotR is an automated graphics component that facilitates the integration of Schedule Logic during Schedule Development and subsequent Schedule Maintenance/Usage.
  • ICS-Scorekeeper: This proprietary software will automate an ICS-Research methodology that yields scores and reports Schedule Content and Schedule Process performance values on a consistent and comparable basis.