WHI's CPM consulting services for owners are designed to show you how to make the CPM schedule an impartial and objective management tool. The firm's staff of CPM experts bring each assignment not just an expertise in the intricacies of the CPM schedule, but the field construction experience of how each line-item in the schedule can impact negatively or positively on the jobsite. Experience WHI's founders were in the vanguard of CPM development and today, WHI is a nationally acknowledge expert in the CPM scheduling technique. This can result in the development of new schedules that will get these troublesome jobs back on track and completed within a realistic time frame. Times have changed During the 1980's, many owners began to take a more aggressive posture concerning time-related claims.
Owners are no longer willing to accede to time related claim demands without substantiation.
Consequently, contractors have become acutely aware that a CPM schedule should reflect favorably upon their execution of the contract work. Instead of having their schedules prepared and maintained by independent scheduling consultants, as they did in the past, contractors are often performing this function in-house. Using personal computers, contractors are able to determine the most favorable results before presenting updated schedules to the owner. The owner is often ill-equipped to properly interpret this information provided by the contractor in the CPM and cannot analyze the data appropriately for validity and veracity. The Feasibility schedule, which is prepared during the planning phase of the project can or cannot be completed on time.