Ontario Community College - B2 (Demo Data)

Critical Path Partners was retained by Northgate Constructors to quantify the movement of project completion between the baseline schedule of record and the schedule update at data date 01-Jul-2025, to attribute that movement by cause, and to prepare an extension-of-time submission under the contract for the owner-attributable portion. This is a demonstration engagement on synthetic data, prepared so a prospective client can see the complete work product.

Dana Fitkowski is the principal of Critical Path Partners. He has 24 years of construction planning and scheduling experience, including 20 years on Canadian nuclear projects, and currently leads planning and scheduling for major industrial and commercial construction programs. His practice is built on Primavera P6 and the methods of AACE International Recommended Practice 29R-03 and the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol. The analysis engine used in this report is cross-validated against Primavera P6; the validation record, including its scope and limits, is published at criticalpathpartners.ca/validation.html.

The demonstration project is a college building expansion of 404 activities, baseline completion 31-Aug-2026. At data date 01-Jul-2025 the update forecasts completion on 30-Sep-2026, 21 working days later than the baseline.

The windows analysis attributes the 21 working days as follows: 9 working days to the Owner, principally the staged-witnessing restriction on fire-spray application (event DE-01), with related owner-attributed slips at the existing facade tie-in and a directed roofing resubmittal; and 12 working days to the Contractor, on remobilization crew availability, trade stacking through the interior chain, and deficiency re-work. No concurrent delay window was identified.

This submission claims the owner-attributable 9 working days pursuant to GC 6.5.1 and claims nothing for the contractor-attributable 12 working days, which are stated in the analysis so the record is complete.

Method selected: AACE 29R-03 MIP 3.3 (observational, dynamic, contemporaneous as-is).

AACE 29R-03 Section 5 identifies eleven factors bearing on method selection (Sections 5.1 to 5.11). The RP prescribes no ranking among them, permits more than one method on a single matter, and places the selection decision with the analyst. Each factor is addressed below; none is omitted.

AACE 29R-03 §2.4.A.5 requires assumptions to be stated in the final analysis product together with their basis. The standing rows below are seeded by the analysis pipeline on every build; matter-specific rows follow them.

The Contractor claims 21 working days, per the windows analysis summarized below. Sign convention: positive values are working days lost, negative values are working days recovered. Attribution is the analyst's assignment carried in the forensic result; this report renders it and does not recompute it.

Declaration of Analyst Independence (AACE RP 29R-03 §2.3.D.3 / SCL Delay & Disruption Protocol Annex A).

The signed acknowledgment of this duty is a forum requirement: Ontario Form 53 under rule 53.03 (the duty is stated at rule 4.1.01) in an Ontario civil proceeding, or FRCP 26(a)(2)(B) in a United States federal matter. AACE 29R-03 §2.3.D.3 states the analyst's duty of independence and objectivity in correcting schedule updates.