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Tower C — Commercial Tower & Podium

Completion drift across revisions R9 → R12
Multi-revision trend report

MONOTONIC DRIFT
FOUR REVISIONS · NO PERIOD RECOVERED TIME
+28dR9 → R12
Client
Meridian Estates (owner)
Contractor
Calderwood Construction Ltd
Contract
JCT D&B 2016
Revisions analysed
R9, R10, R11, R12
Window
Nov 2025 – Feb 2026
Baseline of record
R10 — 1 Nov 2027
Current forecast
19 November 2027
Average slip per period
+9 days
Report reference
SI-TA-EX-004
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Tower C · R9–R12 · Trend Analysis28 Feb 2026

Contents

Report
01Trend summary3
02Completion-date trend4
03Where the delay was introduced5
04Interpretation and required response6
Appendices — supporting detail
ARevision register7
BPeriod attribution detail8
How to read this report

Sections 1 to 3 carry the finding and the evidence for it: what moved, when it moved, and what pattern the movements make. Section 4 is the interpretation a reviewer should take from that pattern.

Appendix A is the revision register — every revision, its data date, its forecast finish and the cause recorded for the movement. Appendix B attributes each period's slip to the activities that produced it.

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1 · Trend summary28 Feb 2026

01 Trend summary

Every revision in this window has pushed the completion date later. No period recovered time. The drift is monotonic — the pattern that most reliably precedes a serious overrun.

Revisions analysed
4

R9 through R12, covering four consecutive monthly submissions.

Completion drift, R9 → R12
+28d

Against the R10 baseline of record the movement is +18 days.

Current forecast finish
19 Nov 2027

Was 22 October 2027 at R9, the reference revision.

Average slip per period
+9d

Range +8 to +10 days. The consistency matters more than the size.

Why monotonic drift is the finding

A programme that slips and recovers is being actively managed; the noise is evidence of control. A programme that slips every single period by a similar amount is not absorbing anything — each month's problem is being passed forward intact. Four periods is enough to distinguish the two, and this is the second pattern.

At the observed rate the completion date reaches mid-January 2028 by R15 with no new events at all. That extrapolation is not a forecast; it is what the current behaviour produces if nothing changes.

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2 · Completion trend28 Feb 2026

02 Completion-date trend

Forecast completion by revision, expressed as days later than the R9 forecast of 22 October 2027. The dashed line is the R10 baseline of record against which the contract position is measured.

Figure 1 — Forecast completion by revision
0d +10d +20d +30d R10 baseline of record R922 Oct 27 R101 Nov 27 R119 Nov 27 R1219 Nov 27
Each point is the forecast finish of one submitted revision. The line rises without interruption across all four: there is no period in which the forecast improved. R10 to R11 is the shallowest interval (+8d) and R11 to R12 the steepest (+10d), so the rate is not decaying either.

What the shape rules out

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3 · Period attribution28 Feb 2026

03 Where the delay was introduced

Delay added in each reporting period, accumulating to the +28 day net position. Attribution is to the period in which the movement first appeared in a submitted revision, not to the period in which the underlying event occurred.

Figure 2 — Delay added by period
0d +10d +20d +28d R9 start +10 R9→R10 +8 R10→R11 +10 R11→R12 +28 R12 total
Three roughly equal contributions rather than one dominant cause. No bar points downwards — that is the same finding as Figure 1, expressed as increments instead of a level, and it is the reason the two figures are both shown.

The cause changes every period

R10 was procurement, R11 was an information delay, R12 was construction rework plus a disclosure correction. Three different root causes in three periods, each producing a similar amount of slip, points away from a single fixable problem and towards insufficient float in the plan as a whole: whatever happens, there is nothing to absorb it, so it lands on the completion date.

The R12 disclosure

Part of the R12 movement is not new delay. Closing open-ended logic on the MEP rough-in chain revealed 6 days that were already lost but were not visible while those activities had no successors. This improves the programme's honesty and worsens its date, and both should be recorded as such.

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4 · Interpretation28 Feb 2026

04 Interpretation and required response

The programme is not absorbing disruption. Each period's events reach the completion date substantially intact, which means the plan carries no effective contingency at the point where it is needed.

What the trend implies for the current forecast

The 19 November 2027 date should be read as the earliest credible completion on current behaviour, not as a balanced forecast. A date produced by a network that has passed forward four consecutive periods of slip is not a date with symmetric risk around it: the observed distribution of outcomes over this window has been entirely one-sided.

What would change the assessment

Basis and limitations

Illustrative example

Produced from fictional project data for illustration. No real schedule, client or contractor data is used or implied.

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Appendix A · Revision register28 Feb 2026

A Revision register

Every revision in the window, with the movement it introduced and the cause recorded for it. Cumulative is measured from R9, the reference revision.

RevData dateForecast finishPeriod slipCumulativeDelay introduced by
R930 Nov 2522 Oct 270dReference revision
R1031 Dec 251 Nov 27+10d+10dStructural steel procurement re-sequenced (Grid G package)
R1131 Jan 269 Nov 27+8d+18dLevel 3 pre-pour held pending RFI-214 (employer)
R1228 Feb 2619 Nov 27+10d+28dGrid G erection rework + MEP logic closed
Net drift over the window (R9 → R12)+28d+18d**versus R10, the baseline of record

Direction of movement

PeriodMovementDirectionRecovery declared in the submission
R9 → R10+10dLaterNone
R10 → R11+8dLaterNone
R11 → R12+10dLater18d applied but not declared — see Appendix B

Three periods, three movements, all in the same direction. This table is the whole of the trend finding stated without a chart.

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Appendix B · Attribution28 Feb 2026

B Period attribution — activities behind each movement

The activities responsible for each period's slip, matched across revisions on activity ID. Movement is measured on the driving path.

PeriodActivityDescriptionMoveRisk
R9→R10A1390Steel delivery release 1 — procurement re-sequenced+10dContractor
R10→R11A1733Level 3 pre-pour inspection — held pending RFI-214+8dEmployer
R11→R12A1422Erect columns Grid G, L4–6 — rework after steel re-issue+18dContractor
R11→R12A1801MEP rough-in Zone A — open-ended logic closed+6dDisclosure
R11→R12A2110Curtain wall North — run parallel with cladding−12dMitigation
R11→R12A1390Steel delivery release 2 — additional fabrication shift−6dMitigation
Net movement across the window+28d

The two mitigation rows in R11→R12 total 18 days recovered. They were applied in the programme but not declared in the submission narrative, which is why the period still reads as +10d rather than as active management of a +28d gross event.

R9
TowerC_R9_2025-11-30.xer
R10
TowerC_R10_2025-12-31.xer
R11
TowerC_R11_2026-01-31.xer
R12
TowerC_R12_2026-02-28.xer
Matching
By activity ID, 2,970 matched
Report reference
SI-TA-EX-004
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