CPM integrity
Open ends, excessive lag, missing logic and hard constraints are cleaned before the reviewer finds them.
UNITED STATES
Planning and Scheduling USA
United States planning and scheduling for owners and contractors who need a CPM schedule that will survive review. We are a Manchester consultancy supporting US programmes.
United States
A US schedule is a contract document, so the logic has to hold
American owners and construction managers often specify how the CPM schedule is built: activity codes, calendars, constraints, narrative and the rules for an update. A file that looks fine in a meeting and fails that review is not a baseline.
EVM Solutions prepares and reviews those schedules from our Manchester base, working in Primavera P6 with the US project team. We check logic, lags, constraints and the critical path before the schedule is submitted. Where the contract asks for a time impact analysis, we model the change in the network rather than in a side spreadsheet.
The state pages cover markets we are asked about most often. They are not a claim of a US office. Weather, labour calendars and the local mix of data centres, infrastructure and commercial work are what change from state to state.
On the programme
What a US baseline is tested against
Narrative
The written account matches the file: critical path, calendar basis, and what changed since the last period.
Local calendars
State holidays, weather seasons and shift patterns are explicit. A national default calendar is not good enough.
How we help
How we support United States programmes
Planning, scheduling and project controls from a Manchester-based consultancy, deployed to the programme rather than tied to a local office in every city.
Specification-led baselines
Schedules built to the CPM specification on that contract, with codes the owner already uses.
Period updates
Progress and remaining duration recorded so float movement can be explained.
Time impact analysis
Fragnets tied into the approved schedule when a delay or change is being assessed.
States
United States pages
Each state page describes the programmes and the calendar issues we plan for there.
New York
High-rise, infrastructure and occupied buildings, where logistics and calendars decide the float.
Read the pageTexas
Data centres, industrial plants and energy projects on a heat calendar, often across more than one site.
Read the pageCalifornia
Tech campuses, life sciences and infrastructure, with entitlements and phased occupancy on the critical path.
Read the pageFlorida
Commercial, infrastructure and waterfront work, with hurricane season treated as a calendar fact.
Read the pageIllinois
Chicago commercial work, Midwest industry and infrastructure, planned on a winter calendar.
Read the pageWashington
Seattle-region tech, industrial and infrastructure programmes, planned around a wet-weather calendar.
Read the pageFAQ
USA planning questions
Do you have a United States office?
No. EVM Solutions is based in Manchester, United Kingdom. We support US programmes with the project team, in the scheduling software the contract requires.
Which states have pages?
New York, Texas, California, Florida, Illinois and Washington. Other states are covered by this national page and can be scoped the same way.
Do you follow DCMA or AACE guidance?
Where the specification calls for a 14-point assessment or an AACE recommended practice, we review against that standard. We do not apply a test the contract has not asked for and then treat it as a rejection.
Can you work in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project?
Yes. P6 is the usual tool for the integrated CPM schedule. Project is used where the contract or the package manager requires it.