PROJECT CONTROLS

 
 

Facility Development Group, Inc. specializes in delivering reliable, end-to-end project controls for initiatives of any size. Our role is to bring structure, clarity, and consistency to every phase of your project—from planning through execution—ensuring it stays on track, on time, and within budget.

Our mission is simple: to improve our clients’ quality of life by removing the stress and complexity that often come with managing capital projects. Many organizations lack the in-house expertise or bandwidth to handle the detailed oversight required for effective project controls. That’s where we come in.

With deep experience and a practical, hands-on approach, we help clients gain confidence and control through capability reviews, customized process development, effective implimenation, and consistent execution. Our integrated suite of project control services works together to provide real-time visibility into your project’s progress, empowering you with clarity about your projects status and success, and allowing for critical real-time decisions to be made and efficient project management processes to be followed.

Schedule Creation and Maintenance

  • Expertise in leading schedule software such as Primavera P6, MS Project, and Procore.
  • Consistently works with Project Managers to Ensure up-to-date information is recorded and available.
  • Utilize critical path method principles to optimize project planning and efficiency.

Contract Administration

  • Management of contract amendment processes.
  • Oversees the progress of potential change order from identification, documentation, and through to finalization.
  • Clear presentation of contract costs, deliverables, timelines, and quality standards into understandable metrics.

Payment Draw Request Inspections and Certifications

  • Ensures quality of prime and subcontractor pay requests Maintains invoice and contract ledgers to verify consistency in budget and expectations.
  • Corresponds with client or payee to resolve concerns.
  • Works within existing processes or creates processes to certify pay requests and process for payment.

Risk Analysis and Evaluation

  • Provides objective perspective with decades of experience to draw upon to assess potential risks.
  • Collaborative and holistic evaluations conducted to identify root-causes and affects.
  • Facilitates mitigating control implementation.

Development and Maintenance of Project Budget

  • Works as a cross departmental bridge to ensure universal understanding of project budget through the lifetime of the project.
  • Extensive knowledge and experience with federal accounting and reporting requirements.
  • Documentation and data management for dashboarding and ongoing monitoring.

Earned Value Management Creation and Reporting

  • Expertise in earned value management principles key to effectively forecast project progress and potential deficiencies.
  • Creates processes to identify potential project scheduling or budget issues early.
  • Provides a mechanism of accountability for prime and sub-contractors.
  • Increases the likelihood of a successful project that is on-budget and on-schedule with less surprises.

Scope Management

  • Develop linkages between scope, invoice, and budget management to prevent scope creep.
  • Defines scope boundaries to set and maintain clear expectations.
  • Foresee and prevent dispute and conflict through clear communication and monitoring.

Report creation and generation

  • Worry-free reporting to funding partners on project progress.
  • Knowledge of many federal reporting requirements.
  • Dynamic and informed approach to providing desired metrics when they’re needed.