The $1 billion ExxonMobil Delta Campus project is located on 385 acres north of Houston, Texas, and is designed to accommodate 10,000 employees. The Exxon Houston campus contains a mix of low-rise and mid-rise commercial office buildings, a wellness center, laboratories, parking, dining, and retail amenities; and replaces more than 2.5 million square feet of previously leased space as well as consolidates several office locations.

As part of the Gilbane Building Company team, Spire assisted in planning and scheduling the means and methods on five of the ten buildings. In addition, Spire provided monthly support services by streamlining the schedule update process, communicating and outlining owner, general contractor and subcontractors’ expectations, and monitoring subcontractors’ performance as it related to time. Spire also completed the rebuild efforts and supported multiple building teams as the site scheduling and planning representative.

Spire’s planning and scheduling efforts resulted in effective communication of tasks and expectations to ensure an on-time completion.

Spire’s project controls experts bring a comprehensive suite of skills and extensive field experience to the job site. We help project teams and management determine how far a project has progressed at any given time regarding schedule, cost, productivity, and risk and compare against contractual expectations, scope, performance criteria, and milestones. Controls can be applied to all phases of a project, from preconstruction to closeout.

Here are just some of the services our construction project controls consultants can bring to your next project:

Project controls are essential to keep complex construction projects on budget and on time. They help teams and stakeholders identify emerging risks early, before they become expensive, time-consuming problems. With advance warning, these issues can be mitigated or avoided altogether. Project controls also give leadership the data they need to set realistic expectations, manage subcontractors, and plan with confidence.

During the course of a project, program and project managers use controls to monitor time and cost expenditures and compare them to project lifecycle forecasts. They also rely on them to coordinate onsite execution with the milestones established during the design, procurement, entitlement, and pre-construction stages.