Primavera P6 construction scheduling for hospital general contractors, mechanical and electrical contractors, and owners: contract-required baselines, monthly updates with a narrative report, and independent schedule reviews. ICRA zones, utility shutdowns and state agency reviews are activities in the logic, not notes.
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HospitalsMedical CentersSurgery CentersMedical Office BuildingsBehavioral HealthCancer CentersLife SciencecGMP FacilitiesHealthcare CPM scheduling services differ from general building work in what the Primavera P6 model has to hold: every AHJ review cycle, every utility shutdown in an occupied building, and every piece of owner-furnished equipment with a vendor date attached. CPM Pros builds those into the logic so the owner sees the effect of a slip in the next update, not at the licensing survey.
Texas, California, Florida, New York, Illinois, Georgia, Washington, and Louisiana each put a state agency between the drawings and the opening, from New York City and Chicago to Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, and New Orleans. The schedule names that agency, its submittal stages, and its inspections as activities with durations and owners, so a review cycle that runs long shows up in the forecast the month it happens, not at the licensing survey.
Each one becomes logic rather than a note. Permit and submittal reviews are activities with the agency’s review duration and the party responsible. Inspections are predecessors to the cover-up or turnover they gate. Access limits, such as night-only work above occupied floors, no corridor deliveries during shift change, or one elevator for construction, are calendars applied to the activities they restrict. Utility shutdowns are discrete activities with approval lead time. When any of them slips, the next monthly update shows the effect on the occupancy date instead of hiding it.
ICRA, the infection control risk assessment, sets the precautions for a work area based on the patients nearby and the type of work, from a walk-off mat at the door to a sealed zone under negative air. PCRA, the pre-construction risk assessment required by Joint Commission environment of care standards, covers the wider hazards: air quality, utilities, noise and vibration, emergency procedures, fire and life safety. In the Primavera P6 model, barrier installation, negative-air setup, and the infection prevention sign-off are activities that precede the first work in each zone, and the ICRA class of one zone constrains when the neighboring zone can start. Treating them as logic is what keeps a barrier from going up the day after demolition.
The ones that gate occupancy, and they differ by state. Common to most projects: building and fire marshal inspections, medical gas verification under NFPA 99, elevator inspection, the state licensing survey, and CMS certification or a Joint Commission survey where new services or beds are added. On top of those, the eight markets CPM Pros sees most each add a state review chain: in Texas, the HHSC Architectural Review Unit’s plan review and architectural inspections plus TDLR accessibility inspections; in California, HCAI (formerly OSHPD) plan review, Amended Construction Documents, and inspector-of-record field reviews, then CDPH licensing; in Florida, AHCA’s Stage III approval before construction and its onsite inspections during it; in New York, the DOH Bureau of Architecture and Engineering Review and the Article 28 certificate of need; in Illinois, the HFSRB permit before the IDPH Design Standards Unit will open a plan review; in Washington, DOH Construction Review Services plan review, which can wait on Certificate of Need; in Georgia, DCH’s Plans Review Unit permit letter and its final inspection; in Louisiana, the State Fire Marshal’s plan review ahead of LDH Health Standards licensing. CPM Pros puts each approval in the schedule with the agency, the submittal it depends on, the expected review duration, and the owner or contractor action that starts the clock.
As two chains that meet at the licensing survey. Equipment: vendor-confirmed manufacturing and delivery dates, site-readiness predecessors (shielding, structural pads, power and cooling, data), rigging path, vendor installation, calibration, and acceptance testing, each as its own activity. Activation: staff orientation, stocking, equipment training, IT and clinical systems go-live, and day-in-the-life simulations, scheduled in parallel with construction close-out under the owner’s responsibility. The model shows whether a late MRI delivery moves the opening date or only the imaging suite, which is the question the executive team asks first.
Yes, and for most owners that is the right engagement. A third-party review of the contractor’s baseline checks logic, calendars, ICRA zone sequence, regulatory milestones, and float before the schedule is accepted. Monthly review of each P6 update tracks logic changes, float consumption, out-of-sequence progress, and drift in inspection and activation milestones, and reports it in a monthly schedule narrative report written for the facilities director and the board. Problems surface while there is still time for a recovery schedule, not after the opening date has moved.
CPM Pros does, for GCs who do not carry a scheduler. Send the progress for the period and the pay application dates; the updated Primavera P6 schedule and a written narrative come back within 3 business days, ready to go in with the pay app.
Every inspection and activation step is in the logic, so the opening date moves in the update, not at the survey.
Whether you need a baseline developed, a delay analyzed, or an independent schedule review, we’re ready to engage. Scheduling is the only thing on our calendar.