As of April 2025, Encore Group has been acquired by YA Group, a global leader in forensic consulting, engineering, and risk mitigation services. This strategic partnership combines Encore’s recognized leadership in construction scheduling and delay analysis with YA’s extensive portfolio and will strengthen our ability to support end—to—end projects from schedule planning to claims resolution. […]
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Schedule Quality and Scoring The linchpin of project success in the construction project management landscape is the precision and robustness of its scheduling, predominantly driven by Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling techniques. At the heart of effective scheduling lies the principle of schedule quality. As one of four key components of a scheduling program, quality
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Preparing a Windows Analysis – (Part 1) How Many Windows Should be Analyzed in Each Window of a Windows Analysis? Preparing a Windows Analysis Part 1 – How Many Windows Should be Analyzed in Each Window of a Windows Analysis? That question is a mouthful, but very significant. Schedule analysts have several methodology options to
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Does your organization measure Schedule Execution Scores? The Defense Contract Management Administration (DCMA) recommends it, and this article explains why you should. Execution scores are simple to identify, and the system is easy to implement. What is the Schedule Execution Score? First, it helps to understand what an Execution Index score is. The DCMA
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Management Strategies for Project Execution:So much is written and discussed these days to help teams execute organizational objectives. It is not enough to have thorough knowledge of a particular strategy, and good intentions will not get the job done.
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Advancements in technology continue to stretch construction programs and their managers. It sometimes seems that the technology has outpaced organizational capabilities to manage it.
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Reactive vs. Proactive Scheduling: To many managers in the construction industry value is overshadowed by cost. By not seeing the value that planning and scheduling can bring to a project, 98% of the project budget
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The science of delay analysis is something you can learn in a book; the \”art\” comes from what is learned through practice. That\’s why it is important for delay experts to stay active in projects. Although I spend most of my time on the dispute resolution side of our business, my team is active on hundreds of projects at any given time and I try to keep one or two ongoing projects on my plate.
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After scheduling for over 30 years and preparing expert reports for many of those, I find myself still learning on every project. I remember in one of my first dispute resolution cases, almost 25 years ago, a construction attorney I was working with told me, \”You guys are half science and half voodoo.\” The term “voodoo”, he explained, was a reference to the expertise of pulling something out of nothing, which I think he considered somewhat valuable.
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With the variety of Delay Analysis Techniques available to schedule reviewers and analysts, it is difficult to know and implement the most reliable and effective way of demonstrating an accurate impact calculation caused by delay.
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