Shutdown / Turnaround Schedule
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What is a Shutdown / Turnaround Schedule?
A highly detailed, tightly sequenced schedule for planned outages — plant shutdowns, offshore platform turnarounds, or utilities network outages — where the asset is offline, every hour of downtime has a direct cost, and the schedule is often executed in Level 4/5 detail rather than the broader Level 3 view used on standard construction work.
Why it matters
Outage windows are expensive and non-negotiable — the client has scheduled production or service loss around your completion date, and there is typically very little tolerance for slippage, whether that’s a mine processing plant shutdown, an offshore platform turnaround, or a network isolation for utilities works. This makes outage scheduling a different discipline from standard construction programming: tighter resource loading, hour-by-hour sequencing on the critical path, contingency and float management that accounts for the compressed timeframe, and often multiple contractors working concurrent, interdependent scopes that need to be coordinated down to the shift level.
What's included in our deliverable
- Detailed Level 4/5 outage schedule with shift-level or hourly resolution on critical activities
- Resource and crew loading validated against actual availability for the outage window
- Multi-contractor interface coordination where other trades share the outage window
- Real-time progress tracking support during the outage itself, so schedule slippage is caught and communicated within hours, not at next week's report
When to engage us
Well ahead of the outage — planning typically needs to start weeks to months out, with the detailed execution schedule locked down and validated before the window opens.