Tom Case is a proven construction industry executive with over 30 years of experience leading high-performing teams, having previously served as Chief Operating Officer at Sundt Construction and Senior Vice President at Granite Construction. He currently leverages this deep expertise in pre-construction, project controls, and collaborative delivery methods as the Managing Principal of his own independent consulting practice, TCM Services, LLC, while also serving as a strategic advisor to Planera.
Data Centers
Articles
As data center construction accelerates to meet AI demand, project teams are under pressure to build faster without sacrificing schedule quality. Here are five takeaways for managing complex data center schedules, from critical path visibility and delay documentation to AI-powered what-if analysis.
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Scheduling
Articles
A substation transformer ordered today won't show up for roughly three years. That's not a typo, and it's not a worst-case estimate — industry lead times for substation transformers have stretched from around 140 weeks in 2023 to more than 160 weeks now, according to Wood Mackenzie research cited by Data Center Knowledge, with some buyers reporting waits closer to four years for certain configurations. Structural steel is a different animal but tells the same story: fabrication and delivery is running 14 to 20 weeks in most U.S. markets as of this year, and that's before design development and submittal review, which can add another month or more on top.
If you're running a heavy civil project with either of those items anywhere near your critical path, the schedule you build on day one is making a bet on numbers that were already moving before you finished writing them down.
Features
Product Updates
This month's release is about staying in the flow of your work: progress updates that finish faster, logic repairs that happen right where you spot the issue, context that lives where the work does, and Manny picking up more of the analysis once your update is done.
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