MAK PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Planning support for construction delivery.
Specialist scheduling and project-controls support for contractors, consultants and project teams. Each assignment starts with the information available and the output you need.
SERVICE CATALOGUE
Choose the support your project needs.
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Project Planning and Scheduling
A programme should explain how the work will be carried out and how delivery will be measured.
- Baseline schedule development in Primavera P6 or MS Project
- Work breakdown structures, construction sequence and activity logic
- Milestones, calendars and execution programmes
- Schedule narratives and assumptions
Typical inputs: Contract scope, drawings, BOQ, milestones and reporting requirements.
Expected deliverables: An editable programme, review PDF and agreed schedule narrative.
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Project Controls and Progress Monitoring
Maintain a consistent picture of planned work, actual progress and the forecast ahead.
- Resource and cost loading
- Progress measurement and schedule updates
- Planned versus actual reporting and S-curves
- Cash-flow forecasts and monitoring reports
Typical inputs: The current programme, progress records, resource/cost inputs and reporting cycle.
Expected deliverables: An updated schedule, agreed control reports and progress summaries.
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Schedule Analysis and Recovery Planning
Understand what is driving completion before deciding what to change.
- CPM, float and longest-path analysis
- Schedule reviews and programme quality checks
- Recovery schedules and acceleration scenarios
- What-if comparisons and documented assumptions
Typical inputs: Baseline and current schedules, progress records and delivery constraints.
Expected deliverables: A schedule review, scenario comparison and agreed recovery outputs.
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Delay Analysis and EOT Support
Prepare schedule-based technical analysis to support a properly documented assessment of delay.
- Baseline versus updated programme comparisons
- Delay identification and programme impact assessment
- Supporting schedule analysis
- Technical documentation for extension-of-time submissions
Typical inputs: Relevant programmes, event records, contract requirements and contemporaneous project information.
Expected deliverables: Agreed schedule analysis and technical supporting documentation. Scope does not include legal representation or a guarantee of claim approval.
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Tender and Bid Planning
Develop a tender programme that reflects the proposed execution method and submission requirements.
- Tender-stage work and mobilisation programmes
- Construction sequencing and execution schedules
- Planning methodologies and schedule narratives
- Programme-related bid submissions
Typical inputs: Tender documents, scope, milestones, proposed resources and submission deadline.
Expected deliverables: A tender programme and agreed planning narrative or methodology inputs.
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Primavera P6 Technical Support
Resolve the software or project-data issue that is holding up the planning work.
- Troubleshooting and schedule corrections
- XER/XML transfer and project-data migration
- Schedule restructuring, calendars and relationship corrections
- Database-related diagnosis within the agreed access and backup arrangements
Typical inputs: P6 version, standalone or enterprise setup, error description and authorised sample files where needed.
Expected deliverables: An agreed correction, project-file handover or explained support session.
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Reporting and Dashboards
Make project information easier to review and act on.
- Microsoft Excel reporting and Power BI dashboards
- Project monitoring and progress tracking systems
- Reusable and automated reporting templates where practical
- S-curves, performance visualisations and management summaries
Typical inputs: Approved data sources, reporting audience, update frequency and required measures.
Expected deliverables: Agreed workbook, dashboard or reporting template with a handover explanation. Power BI sharing arrangements are agreed separately; paid licences are not included.
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Remote Planning Support
Add planning capacity for a specific assignment or a recurring reporting cycle.
- Remote planning assistance and schedule review
- Periodic programme updates and monthly reporting
- Tender planning and assignment-based support
- Recurring project-controls services
Typical inputs: Required outputs, available inputs, review contacts, timezone and expected availability.
Expected deliverables: Defined deliverables and review points, with agreed timing and fee milestones.
HOW WORK STARTS
Agree the scope before work begins.
Share the requirement. Describe the project, inputs and deadline.
Confirm the approach. Agree deliverables, assumptions, review points, fee and payment milestones.
Develop and review. Work through the agreed information and resolve questions.
Receive the handover. Get the files and explanation included in the scope.
Discuss your planning requirement.
Tell us the project, the information available and the deliverables you need.