Owner-side and GC-side CPM expertise that turns complex schedules into clear, defensible insight, from federal courthouses to university campuses.
Whether you build it, own it, or litigate it, here is exactly what Hartwell handles for you.
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Peter's career runs from the deck of a concrete pour to the witness table. He came up through the field as a superintendent on ground-up multifamily work and a project manager on the adaptive reuse of a historic mill, then spent more than a decade managing and scheduling federal and institutional construction on both the owner's and the contractor's side of the table.
That record includes senior project management on the $300M new U.S. Courthouse in Chattanooga, the $165M Jonas Federal Courthouse delivered under budget and ahead of schedule, the master schedule for the $112M Holloway Courthouse, the $65M Madawaska Land Port of Entry kept reliable through Maine winters, and the systems renewal of the historic U.S. Custom House in Charleston. On campus, he provided owner's schedule controls for Cal Poly Humboldt's $192M student housing and program leadership across Gavilan College's $248M capital program.
He pairs that record with credentials few schedulers carry: CCM, PSP, and a Juris Doctor. The result is analysis that is technically rigorous, contractually grounded, and delivered in plain English: a baseline you can trust, an update that gives real warning, a delay analysis that holds up, and exhibits a board can follow.
The best schedule is not the one with the most activities. It is the one that explains how the project will be built, shows what drives completion, and gives the team enough warning to act before a problem becomes a delay.
When he is not inside a P6 file, Peter also runs Palmetto Tee Box, a South Carolina mobile golf simulator rental company that brings the tee box to parties, corporate events, and backyards.
Hartwell Consulting provides integrated scheduling, schedule controls, owner-side schedule review, delay advisory, and schedule visualization services tailored to federal, higher education, VA, and institutional clients across the project lifecycle.
We combine deep CPM expertise with an owner-side perspective to translate complex schedule information into clear insight, empowering clients to anticipate risk, align teams, and make confident, informed decisions that keep projects moving forward.
Schedules are where entitlement is won or lost. Hartwell reconstructs what actually happened, ties each impact to the contract, and builds analysis clear enough to move a settlement and rigorous enough to survive an opposing expert.
Contemporaneous, method-driven analysis, not hindsight storytelling.
A defensible as-built reconstruction from the project record.
Isolating owner, contractor, and excusable delay, including concurrent impacts.
Fragnets, narratives, and graphics built for negotiation, mediation, and court.
Every engagement produces documents a project team can act on. Illustrative samples below, real deliverables carry your project's data.
Every baseline and update scored against the DCMA 14-point assessment, with each flag explained and a fix identified.
Sample · Illustrative Data
As-planned versus as-built comparisons and TIA fragnets that isolate the impact and quantify the days, ready for negotiation.
Sample · Illustrative Data
One page that tells a principal what is driving completion, what changed, and what decision is needed, without opening P6.
Sample · Illustrative DataDense comparison exhibits from a live federal program, rebuilt as clear visual stories, because a schedule only matters if the people making decisions can read it at a glance. Hover any bar for its dates.
Scoped in a 20-minute call. Project-based or monthly. No long-term commitment required to start.
A second set of eyes before the schedule goes out, or after it comes back rejected.
Senior-level scheduling capacity without hiring a full-time scheduler.
Analysis rigorous enough to survive an opposing expert, clear enough to move a settlement.
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A brief sampling of the federal, higher-education, and institutional work Peter has planned, scheduled, and managed over his career.
Additional planning and scheduling work spans the UC and CSU systems, K-12 modernizations, multifamily, and historic renovation, grounded in field years spent as a project manager and superintendent.
GSA, VA, and courthouse programs held to federal scheduling specifications.
Campus capital programs, housing, and research facilities on occupied campuses.
Seismic upgrades, systems renewals, and phased institutional renovations.
District modernizations sequenced around calendars and live campuses.
Short, practical reads from the desk of Peter T. Sheridan. No fluff, no sales copy.
The recurring failures behind rejected CPM baselines on GSA, VA, and USACE work, and how to submit one that passes the first time.
Read the article → Schedule QualityAll 14 points are not created equal. The handful that predict real schedule failure, and the ones that are mostly noise.
Read the article → Delay AnalysisTwo defensible methods, two very different jobs. How to pick the right delay methodology for your claim before you spend the money.
Read the article →Share your XER or PDF and what is worrying you. You will get a 15-minute read on what is actually driving the project, no charge, no obligation, no sales pitch.
Every engagement is handled by the person doing the analysis. No layers, no runaround, no unnecessary bureaucracy.
peter@hartwellscheduling.com