Microsoft Project is on more construction laptops than any other scheduling tool. It's familiar, it opens on almost any office machine, and plenty of owners and lenders ask for schedules in it. It's also easy to build a Project schedule that looks fine until something changes, and then dates refuse to move, or move in ways nobody expected.
We build, fix, and maintain construction schedules in MS Project with proper logic, realistic durations, and progress tracking that holds up month after month.
MS Project works well for:
Primavera P6 is usually the better fit when the contract specifies it, when the schedule has thousands of activities, or when formal delay analysis is likely. For those projects, see our CPM scheduling service. CPM scheduling →
A logic-driven schedule from mobilization to closeout: submittals and procurement, permits and inspections, work by area and trade, and milestones the owner cares about. Durations come from the scope and realistic crew sizes.
Actual starts and finishes, remaining durations, and percent complete updated each period, compared against the saved baseline so variances are visible.
Short-interval views filtered from the master schedule for weekly site meetings.
Crews or key resources assigned to tasks, so you can see when the job needs more people than you have.
For owners and developers: design phases, approvals, financing milestones, bidding, and construction in one timeline.
Many MS Project schedules we receive have the same problems. They're easy to make and hard to spot:
Dates are typed in instead of calculated, so nothing moves when predecessors slip.
"Must Start On" and "Start No Earlier Than" pin tasks in place and hide real delays.
Logic tied to summary rows instead of the actual work behaves unpredictably.
Tasks with open ends don't show their real impact on the finish date.
Adding a resource unexpectedly shortens a task's duration.
Without one, there's nothing to measure progress against.
We review existing schedules, correct the logic, and return a file that calculates properly, with notes on what was changed.
Sometimes a project starts in one tool and needs to move to the other: an owner requires P6, or a subcontractor needs to work in Project. Conversions can lose calendars, constraints, relationship types, or activity codes. We check the converted schedule against the original (dates, critical path, and logic) so the new file says the same thing as the old one.
A schedule is also a communication tool. We can set up:
who need a proper schedule without a full-time scheduler
managing design, approvals, and construction
tracking contractor progress
asked to provide a schedule for their scope
who inherited a broken schedule
Drawings, contract milestones, and your sequence or phasing plan. Send any existing schedule.
We confirm sequence, crews, and key dates with your team.
You review the draft and comment.
You receive the .mpp and PDFs; we can update it periodically.
Yes, for many projects: especially residential, light commercial, and private work. It handles logic, critical path, baselines, and resource loading. Large or spec-driven projects often require Primavera P6 instead.
Yes. We'll review the logic and settings, correct problems like manual tasks and hard constraints, and explain what we changed.
Yes, and we'll check the converted schedule against the original.
You'll need a way to open .mpp files to edit them. If you only need to view the schedule, PDFs work.
Commonly monthly, and more often on fast-moving jobs. The contract may set a frequency.
Send your project documents or existing schedule. We'll quote the work and confirm timing.
