PSA: traditional project scheduling vs. pull planning on a 12-story condo build in Austin

We ran a 12-story condo job in Austin last year using old-school critical path scheduling and it was a nightmare. Halfway through the dry-in phase we had trades tripping over each other, lost about 3 weeks just waiting on MEP rough-ins that should have been sequenced better. Switched to pull planning for the next phase where the GC and subs sit down together and map out the schedule backwards from the deadline, and man, handoffs got way smoother. Has anyone else tried pull planning on a big multifamily project and seen the same kind of difference?

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emmasmith4d ago

Oh pull planning was a game changer on a 5 story mixed use we did in Denver last year. The biggest thing for me was seeing how the electricians and plumbers actually had to talk to each other about their laydown areas before we even broke ground. We did a couple of those pull planning sessions and it caught like 4 or 5 big handoff issues that would have cost us weeks on the back end. Maybe it's just me but I think the old critical path method leaves too much room for assuming stuff will just magically work out.