Nine active projects. One planner. A schedule that lives in a spreadsheet.
That is the real setup in most mid-sized contractors. Not a lack of competence — a lack of a control layer. The month closes, the report gets built by hand, and nobody can say exactly when the delay started or who owns it.
A familiar story in large-scale construction
A multinational infrastructure contractor manages 2,400 active projects across Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. Their central PMO has 14 analysts. Every month, each project manager submits a schedule update — a PDF report built from an Excel file with their own column headers, their own WBS structure, and their own definition of "% complete."
The PMO consolidates everything manually. Copying numbers. Reformatting tabs. Chasing project managers for corrections. The process takes three weeks. By the time the progress dashboard is ready for the board presentation, the data is already six weeks old.
Meanwhile, a road project in Colombia had a Progress Performance Ratio of 0.71 in week 8 — a clear schedule risk signal. Nobody in HQ saw it until the week-14 report. The delay had already cascaded into a contractual penalty.
"We had the data. It was somewhere in 2,400 Excel files on a SharePoint that nobody had organized. The problem wasn't information — it was that we couldn't see any of it in real time."
What changes when field progress drives reporting automatically
Without Construway
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Progress is consolidated once a month, manually, after the PMO team spends 3 weeks normalizing Excel files from 2,400 project managers.
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Each PM defines "% complete" differently — hours spent, tasks ticked, area inspected. There is no consistent metric across the portfolio.
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S-curves are built in PowerPoint for each board presentation. Any project running below 0.80 on progress performance is discovered weeks after the risk became critical.
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Risk flags live in email threads and individual spreadsheets. The PMO has no aggregated view of which projects are in distress at any given moment.
With Construway
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Progress is recalculated every time a field engineer updates task progress — from any device, at any site. The PMO sees it live, without waiting for month-end submissions.
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% complete is calculated from duration-weighted leaf-node progress in the WBS — not from subjective estimates. Every project uses the same engine.
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S-curves are generated automatically. The Colombia road project’s drop to 0.71 would have surfaced at week 8 — giving the team 6 weeks to act before the contractual deadline.
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The PMO dashboard shows all active projects ranked by progress performance. Projects below threshold are flagged automatically. Analysts spend time on mitigation, not on data collection.
The control layer your PMO has been missing
Each capability below maps directly to a manual process that large EPC PMO teams do today — and that Construway eliminates.
Standardized WBS across all projects
Every project uses the same tree-based WBS structure. Eliminates the "each PM uses their own columns" problem — progress data is comparable and aggregatable across the entire portfolio.
Live progress — no month-end wait
Planned and Reported Progress are recalculated from field updates in real time. The 3-week consolidation process becomes a live feed. The Colombia slippage scenario gets caught in week 8, not week 14.
Automatic S-curves — no PowerPoint
Planned vs. Actual S-curves are generated automatically from the schedule and field progress data. Board presentations use live charts, not manually assembled slides built the night before.
Portfolio risk dashboard
Projects below the progress performance threshold are flagged automatically. The PMO sees the full portfolio ranked by performance — without opening a single Excel file or asking a single project manager for a status update.
You already have the schedules. Connect them.
Most large contractors already manage baselines in MS Project. Construway doesn't replace those tools — it imports files and syncs field updates back to the master schedule. Your planners keep their tool. Your PMO gets live visibility.
