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Scheduling for Mechanical and Plumbing Contractors

Hit your dates, bill on time, and look ready to the GC and the owner. CPM Pros builds and keeps your HVAC, piping, plumbing and fire protection schedule in Primavera P6, ties the updates to your pay applications, reviews the GC's schedule from your side, and answers each update inside your notice window. Fully remote, anywhere in the US. Written quote with a firm price and delivery date, typically within 3 business days.

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What Your Schedule Does for You

Finish sooner. Bill on time.
Carry fewer surprises.

Pay applications that do not wait on the schedule
Your activities match the line items on your schedule of values, so the percent complete you bill is the number that updates the schedule. One set of figures, submitted together, and one set of figures for the GC's reviewer to check.
Your manpower, planned against actual
Your labor hours by area are loaded on the activities, so each update shows planned manpower against what you actually ran. A peak nobody planned for, or three trades stacked in your area, shows the week it happens, while you can still adjust instead of absorb it.
Equipment, prefab and coordination as a chain, not a bar
Air handlers, chillers, boilers, pumps, med gas equipment, duct and pipe spool: submittal, approval, release, fabrication and delivery, with the dates your vendors and your shop actually gave you. Coordination sign-off for each area sits ahead of fabrication, so a late sign-off shows as what held your shop, not as a slow crew.
Inspections and tests that release the next crew
Under-slab rough-in, in-wall, above-ceiling, pressure and hydro tests, fire sprinkler acceptance and medical gas certification are predecessors to the work they hold, so the next crew is scheduled behind the inspection, not behind a hope.
Startup, TAB and commissioning with real durations
Startup, testing and balancing, controls checkout and functional testing carry the time they take, tied to permanent power and to the areas being closed. When the trades ahead of you run late, the schedule shows what they used up and what you still need.
Every GC update answered inside the notice window
Many subcontracts treat silence as acceptance within 72 hours or 7 days. Each update is compared to the last and to your plan the day it arrives, and you get a dated written response to send back. That record is what a time extension or pay dispute is decided on.
Scheduling Services

What we do for
mechanical and plumbing contractors

Send the GC's schedule PDF, your contract and your schedule of values. You get a written quote with a firm price and delivery date, typically within 3 business days. No Primavera P6 license and no scheduler to hire.

Your scope schedule in Primavera P6, coordinated with the GC's and matched to your schedule of values
Schedule updates on your pay application cycle, with the written narrative the GC asks for
Review of the GC's schedule and each update from the mechanical contractor's side
Coordination, equipment and prefab tracking from submittal to delivery
Startup, TAB and commissioning sequences built with the trades you depend on
Fragnets and time impact analysis (TIA) for compression, acceleration and out-of-sequence work

Mechanical Work We Schedule

Hospitals and Medical CentersLab and Biomed Tenant ImprovementsData CentersCommercial BuildingsCentral PlantsPublic BuildingsPlumbing and Medical GasFire Protection
Questions Mechanical Contractors Ask
Do you work for the mechanical contractor or the GC?

For you. When a mechanical or plumbing contractor hires CPM Pros, we build and keep your schedule, review the GC's updates from your side, and answer them in writing within your notice window. We do not represent the GC on the same project.

Our subcontract says the GC's schedule is accepted unless we object within 72 hours. Can you keep up with that?

Yes. That window is the reason to have your own scheduler. Each GC update is compared to the last one and to your plan the day it arrives, and you get a short written response to send back: what changed in your scope, what it does to your crews and your dates, and what you need the GC to fix. Silence costs you the claim; a dated response keeps it.

The GC wants a schedule update with every pay application. Does that slow down our billing?

No. Your activities are set up to match the line items on your schedule of values, so the percent complete you report for payment is the same number that updates the schedule. One set of figures, submitted together, with one set of figures for the GC's reviewer to check.

What do you need from us to get started?

The GC's schedule PDF, your contract, and your schedule of values. Better still is the GC's native P6 file (the XER), which lets us see the logic behind your dates; the MCAA recommends that mechanical contractors ask for it, and we can help you ask. Your estimate's labor hours by area let us check whether the durations the GC gave you are realistic. We send back a written quote with a firm price and delivery date, typically within 3 business days.

Can you track our equipment, prefab and coordination sign-off in the schedule?

Yes. Air handlers, chillers, boilers, pumps, medical gas equipment and your prefabricated spool and duct runs are each modeled as a chain: submittal, approval, release, fabrication and delivery, with the dates your vendors and your shop actually gave you. Coordination sign-off for each area sits ahead of fabrication, so a late sign-off shows as what held your shop, not as a slow crew.

Startup, testing and balancing and commissioning always get squeezed at the end. Can the schedule help?

That is where a mechanical contractor's schedule earns its keep. Startup, TAB, controls checkout and functional testing are scheduled with the durations they really take, tied to permanent power and to the areas being closed. When the trades ahead of you run late, the schedule shows what they used up and what your work still needs, which is the basis for a time extension instead of overtime at your cost.

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Send the GC schedule PDF.
Get a firm number.

Written quote with a firm price and delivery date, typically within 3 business days. Talk to the scheduler, not a salesperson.

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Let’s talk about
your schedule

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.

ReachNationwide — fully remote across all U.S. markets
SoftwarePrimavera P6, Microsoft Project, Excel — all delivery formats
ResponseWritten quote typically within 3 business days