Construction scheduling and project controls
Know if your schedule can be trusted before the owner asks
Taha Messaoudi builds, reviews and recovers Primavera P6 schedules for construction projects, and trains the teams who run them.
The check is free, with no sign-up. Your file is read and never saved.
- $3B+
- Rail transit
- Lead Scheduler on a major project
- $1B+
- Urban rail programme
- Led a team of 8 schedulers
- $1B+
- Power plants
- Lead planner across 5 hydroelectric projects
Also infrastructure, wastewater, government buildings, fit-out and retrofit projects.
A scheduling manager for your project
Bring in Taha Messaoudi for the schedule itself, or to train the team that runs it.
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Bid and proposal schedules
Schedules for tenders and proposals: logic-driven, resource-loaded and ready for the owner's submission requirements.
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Schedule maintenance
Regular updates of your P6 schedule: progress, logic review, health checks, a weekly report and a monthly narrative against the baseline.
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Recovery, delay analysis and claims
Recovery programs, schedule compression, time impact analysis, and the preparation and review of delay claims.
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Team training
Scheduling and project control training for project directors, sector leads and discipline leads, including block schedules and quantities from estimate to measure.
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A dashboard built around your contract
Every contract asks for something different. We start from its schedule and reporting requirements, then set up the dashboard and the reports to match, before the first update.
Your contract's requirements
The update cycle, the baseline, the key milestones and the reports the contract asks for, set up in the platform from day one.
The measures your owner reads
Milestones, critical path, float, earned value and the manhour curve against the approved baseline, by zone, block, area or discipline.
Quality checks with your limits
The 14-point health check runs with the thresholds your specification sets, so every update is checked the same way before it goes out.
Office and field from one file
The project team gets its dashboard and each crew its three-week short interval plan, all from the same XER.
- Every week
- Progress against the plan, the next three weeks area by area, and the decisions that can't wait.
- Every month
- The schedule update and its narrative: progress, critical path and float, key milestones against the baseline, delays and their causes, recovery actions, and the cost and manhour curves.
Records that protect you from claims
Claims are won or lost on records. We keep every update and the reasons behind it documented from day one, and prepare and review delay claims when they come.
A record kept as you go
Every update is saved with its data date, what moved and why, so the history of the schedule can be shown, not rebuilt from memory.
Delays logged when they happen
Each delay, its cause and its effect on the critical path go into that month's narrative while the facts are fresh.
Delay claims
Preparation of delay and extension of time claims, with time impact analysis on the schedule of record.
Claims made against you
Review of the schedule analysis behind a claim: the logic, the baseline it relies on, and whether the delays really drove the finish.
We are schedulers, not lawyers: our analysis supports your contract team and your legal advisers.
Talk about a claimAsk your schedule a question
Type a question in plain English and get the answer from the file: trace the logic flow of an activity, test a slip, list the critical work or draft your update.
Try it here on our demo schedule, with no sign-up. In the platform it works on your own XER, and your schedule never leaves your account. It reports what is in the file and won't guess.
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Six things that make a schedule lie
A schedule can look clean and still be wrong. These are the first things an experienced reviewer looks for, and the platform shows you where to look.
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Open ends
An activity with no successor can slip forever and move nothing. That is how a finish date stays green while the job is late. - 02
Constraints doing the logic's job
A hard constraint pins a date in place. The report looks fine, and the float stops telling the truth. - 03
Lags hiding real work
Curing, approvals and procurement buried in a lag cannot be statused, or owned by anyone. - 04
A critical path that stops short
If the driving path does not reach the data date, nobody can say what really controls the finish. - 05
Durations with no basis
When nobody can show the quantity, rate and crew behind a duration, every review turns into opinion. - 06
A curve the site cannot staff
A peak on the manhour curve is a real number of people. If they do not fit in the area, the dates are fiction.
Test your schedule now, for free
Fourteen checks on your XER, with no sign-up. Your file is read and never saved.
Taha Messaoudi
Scheduling and Project Controls Manager
Taha Messaoudi prepares and maintains Primavera P6 schedules for construction projects, and trains project teams in scheduling and project control.
A civil engineer and Certified Construction Contract Administrator, Taha has led scheduling on major rail, power and infrastructure work, building resource- and cost-loaded schedules, recovery programs and time impact analyses. He works in English, French and Arabic.
From XER to answers, step by step
Short recordings of the platform at work. Pick a step or let them play through.
- Drag and drop an XER exported from P6
- Activities, relationships, assignments and totals read from the file
- Warnings for missing loading, costs, calendars and resource curves
Recorded in the platform with a sample schedule built for this demo. The project, its activities and its figures are invented.
Training in scheduling and project control
Hands-on training for project teams, built around how your projects really run, so the schedule becomes something your people use to make decisions.
Project director
Know where the project stands and what threatens the finish date. Ask the right questions about a schedule and trust the answers.
Sector lead
See how your areas depend on each other, plan the handovers and spot a slipping interface while there is still time to act.
Discipline lead
Own your durations and quantities, see what is coming in the next three weeks and show the real effect of a change.
What people ask first
What is an XER file?
XER is the export format of Oracle Primavera P6. It holds a project's activities, logic, calendars, resources and codes. In P6, use File, Export and choose Primavera PM (XER).
Do I need P6 to use the platform?
You need an XER exported from P6, but nothing is installed: everything runs in your browser.
Does the platform change my schedule?
No. It reads the XER and never writes to P6. What-if durations are saved as separate scenarios, and your original file stays as it was.
Who can see my schedules?
Only you. Each account sees its own uploads, and field users see only the activities you assign to them. The free health check does not save your file at all.
What is the DCMA 14-point assessment?
A set of 14 checks that tests how well a schedule is built: logic, leads, lags, constraints, float, durations, the critical path and execution against plan.
Can you build or maintain the schedule for us?
Yes. Bid and proposal schedules, regular schedule maintenance and team training are all offered as services alongside the platform.
Talk about your schedule
Book a consultation with Taha Messaoudi, or see what the free check finds in your XER first.