Project ControlsConstruction Operating System
One trusted project record. Complete project history.
Plans, specifications, notices, documents, emails, and project communications remain connected through one permanent record—protecting every decision, every revision, and every milestone from award through closeout.
One date · Four tools
Watch the same date move.
A change order lands on Tuesday. In legacy tools, the schedule finds out on Friday — in a meeting. Here, the date moves in front of the seats that can still act on it.
Substantial completion — Mar 14
The executive opens the pane. The date is live, not assembled.
CO-047 → activity 3120 shifts +3 days
The change order writes to the CPM. Baseline v1 stays locked; forecast moves.
Re-sequence pour · Owner: J. Reyes · Due Fri
The work item the shift creates is assigned before the day ends.
Substantial completion at risk — forecast Mar 17
The strip at the top of every screen tells the room the promised date is exposed.
The tools · Project Controls
The Four Tools
One live plan from notice to proceed to closeout. Each tool writes to the same record — the baseline the schedule locked, the tasks that advance it, and the signal that moves the forecast.
ILLUSTRATIVE MOCKUP — NOT CUSTOMER DATA
Dashboard
The single pane.
Cost, schedule, field and risk indicators computed from the live project record — not assembled for the meeting. What the executive sees is what the field wrote.
ILLUSTRATIVE MOCKUP — NOT CUSTOMER DATA
Cost variance
−$182k
vs. current budget
Schedule
+3d
forecast vs. baseline
Open items
47
across 4 seats
Schedule
The controlling timeline.
CPM scheduling with a locked baseline, lookaheads and versioned revisions. When a change order moves a date, the schedule already knows — it is written to, not re-drawn.
ILLUSTRATIVE MOCKUP — NOT CUSTOMER DATA
Baseline
v1
locked · Jan 12
Revision
r.14
current forecast
Critical path
62
activities
Tasks
Accountable execution.
Assigned, dated work items tied to the records they advance — an RFI answer, a submittal review, a schedule activity. Ownership and due dates are explicit; the open-item count is always current.
ILLUSTRATIVE MOCKUP — NOT CUSTOMER DATA
Assigned
47
with owners + dates
Overdue
6
escalated
Closed 7d
31
with linked record
Risk Signals
Early warning.
Risks are raised as records — scored, owned, and tied to the activities and costs they threaten. Exposure surfaces while there is still time to act, not in the month-end report.
ILLUSTRATIVE MOCKUP — NOT CUSTOMER DATA
Register
18
active risks
Exposure
$412k
weighted
Schedule
+3d
attributable
The argument
Legacy tools tell you the promised date slipped after the meeting. The Construction Operating System tells you it is at risk before the meeting is called.
— Project Controls · Syntecton
Purpose-Built For Construction Delivery
The Single Pane
Cost, schedule, field and risk indicators computed from the live project record — not assembled for the meeting. What the executive sees is what the field wrote.
Locked Baseline
CPM scheduling with a locked baseline, lookaheads and versioned revisions. The controlling timeline the whole project measures against.
Accountable Tasks
Assigned, dated work items tied to the records they advance. Ownership and due dates are explicit, and the open-item count is always current.
Managed Risk
Risks raised as records — scored, owned, and tied to the activities and costs they threaten. Exposure surfaces while there is still time to act.
Written, Not Redrawn
When a change order moves a date, the schedule already knows. Baselines, forecasts and tasks share one revision history — no side spreadsheets, no reconciliation.
Signals, Not Reports
The forecast moves in the strip at the top of the screen, not on the next status deck. The system tells you the promised date is at risk before it costs you the day.
Workflows
Delivery Workflows
How Syntecton helps · Project Controls
One Plan. From Notice To Proceed To Closeout.
Legacy tools keep the schedule in one file, the tasks in another, and the risk in somebody's head. Friday brings a status deck to reconcile them.
The Construction Operating System holds one plan: the baseline the schedule locked, the tasks that advance it, the signal that threatened it, and the forecast that moved.
Project Controls is where every date lands, moves and holds — in front of the seats that can still act on it.
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