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For data center development programs

Your schedule already has the answers. Your team can't get to them.

Forge ingests the Primavera schedule you already publish and turns it into live status every team can read, explore, and update, without opening the schedule, building a dashboard, or sitting through another update meeting.

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  • 3+
    GW
  • Billions
    in active project budget
  • 8+
    buildings
  • 4+
    campuses
In production today across three data center developers, multiple sites per client, multiple buildings per site, spanning several regions and every stage from land acquisition through construction.
The problem

The schedule is the most valuable asset on the program. It's also the least accessible.

01

Power BI answers the question you built it to answer.

Schedule data isn't tabular, it's logic, hierarchy, and float. Flattening it into a data model means every new question is a new build. What you needed wasn't a dashboard. It was the ability to ask.

02

Only a few people can safely open the file.

Everyone else waits on a scheduler, works from a PDF that's a week old, or clicks through it themselves and hopes they didn't reschedule anything.

03

The meeting is spent collecting status.

Twenty people on a call for the ten minutes that concern them, and it still doesn't cover every activity. Nobody is arguing about the meeting. They're arguing that the hour goes to gathering dates instead of deciding what to do about them.

04

Every question is a request.

Seeing the schedule a different way means asking someone to build it, then waiting on them. So most questions never get asked at all. Not because they don't matter, but because they don't feel worth someone else's week.

None of this is a scheduling problem. It's an access problem, and it's why most programs run on a version of the truth that's already two weeks old.

What Forge does

Every activity. Every project. Every program.

Forge ingests the schedule your program already publishes and maintains a read-only model of it that anyone can use.

Portfolio → Program → Project → Activity

Roll up to portfolio health for the executive team, or drill into a single activity's predecessors, successors, float, and driving path. Same data, one source, no export.

01Upload your published schedule, .xer or .xml, from P6 or OPC.
02Forge parses it and builds the views, portfolio down to activity, organized by phase.
03Your team reads status, traces logic, communicates, and reports progress without ever touching the file.
Forge showing permit cards, approval status, key activities and milestones, and the lookahead report for the Northgate project
Ingestion
01 / 05

Upload the schedule you already publish.

Every program publishes on a cadence whether weekly, biweekly, or monthly. The file gets dated, shared, and filed. Forge ingests it and rebuilds every view instantly: rollups, lookaheads, Gantts, milestone tracking, health scores. Because it has all the history from every publish, you can see float eroding between updates before it impacts a milestone.

The week of data prep now happens on upload.

Aerial view of a large data center construction program in progress
Publish historyIngested
2026-08-12 · Update 14.xerCurrent
2026-07-21 · Update 13.xerArchived
2026-07-15 · Update 12.xerArchived
2026-06-25 · Update 11.xerArchived
Schedule access
02 / 05

Open the schedule without opening the schedule.

Forge is read-only by design. Anyone on the program can search any activity, trace the critical path, walk predecessors and successors, check float, and see what's actually driving a date. No license to buy. No training. No chance of changing logic by accident.

Comment on any activity, tag whoever needs to see it, leave it open until it's dealt with. Every thread stays attached to the activity it belongs to, and the history stays there after it's resolved, so six months from now you can see when something was first raised, and by whom.

Full visibility. One record of the conversation. Zero write access.

Aerial view of data center electrical infrastructure and substations under construction
Activity detailRead only
UT-220 · Substation energization
Total float
0 d
On driving path
Yes
Predecessors
UT-180 · Transformer delivery
UT-205 · Protection relay testing
Successors
ME-440 · Cooling equipment set
CX-510 · Integrated commissioning
Status collection
03 / 05

Change what the update meeting is for.

Between publishes, teams comment status directly on the activities they own, inside the phase view they already work in. Forge collects every comment and hands the scheduler a structured, attributable set of updates to work from.

Forge never writes to your schedule. The scheduler stays in control of the file and applies what they judge to be correct. What changes is the meeting: instead of going around the room for status anyone could have read, you're chasing the few people still outstanding and working the risks that surfaced since the last publish.

Walk into the update meeting with the updates already in hand.

Construction crew inside an active data center MEP buildout
Status since last publish12 outstanding
BL-315 · Building enclosureReported
"Roof deck complete, curtain wall starts Monday."
Structural lead · 2 days ago
ME-440 · Cooling equipment setAt risk
"Chiller delivery pushed two weeks by vendor."
Mechanical lead · 1 day ago
UT-220 · Substation energizationAwaiting
No update since last publish
Phase views
04 / 05

A view for the phase you're accountable for.

Forge categorizes your schedule into easy verticals. Each view carries the activities, milestones, and dates that belong to that phase, and nothing else. The permitting lead doesn't scroll past commissioning. The commissioning lead doesn't scroll past land.

Need a different cut? Build it yourself. Group by project, building, equipment, phase, or status. Save it. Share it.

No dashboarding skills required. No ticket to IT.

Overhead view of phased civil work across a data center campus construction site
PhasesPreconfigured
Land Acquisition & Due Diligence
Design
Permitting
Power Availability
Procurement
Construction
Commissioning
Trend over time
05 / 05

Every publish is kept. So you can see what moved.

Forge retains every schedule you upload. That means it can show change between them. Which activities slipped, which milestones drifted, when the critical path shifted, and what the logic looked like the week before it changed.

One schedule tells you where the program stands. The full set tells you where it's heading, and when it started heading there.

A single publish is a snapshot. The series is the story.

Data center campus construction site viewed from above
Float erosionAll history
2026-04-052026-06-252026-08-12
Consumed this cycle
43.9 d
Last 90 days
-4.8 d
Schedule health

Every scheduler runs DCMA-14. It tells you the schedule was built correctly. It doesn't tell you whether to believe it.

Forge runs the industry-standard checks and shows them the way you'd expect. Table stakes. Then we go further.

The industry-standard checks
Activities with no predecessors
113
Activities with no successors
78
Hard constraints
3%
Predecessor lags over 10 days
9%
Durations over 20 days
24%
Activities with negative float
20%
Out-of-sequence activities
25
Milestone slips
1

The scores our scheduling team thinks matter more.

Progress Realism
Is reported progress consistent with the time that's actually elapsed?
Forecast Stability
Do forecast dates hold from publish to publish, or move every cycle?
Update Discipline
Is the schedule being statused completely, and on time?
Milestone Stability
Are the dates that matter holding, or quietly walking?
Float Health
How fast is float being consumed, this cycle, and over the last 90 days?
Schedule Credibility
Taken together: how much weight should these dates carry?
Program scoresLive view
Overall schedule health
81%
Logic Quality60%
Structural Integrity60%
Float Health71%
Schedule Credibility87%
Progress Realism96%
Update Discipline99%
Forecast Stability100%
Milestone Stability100%

A schedule can pass every DCMA check and still be wrong. Clean logic on a plan nobody is statusing honestly is a well-built fiction.

Most of these scores can't be calculated from a single file. Erosion, stability, discipline, realism. They're measurements of change. They exist because Forge keeps every publish you've ever uploaded.

What's in the platform.

Every program in one view

Track every program and project in one view: % complete, health score, total MW, next delivery.

MW delivered vs. committed

Days to next delivery, MW delivered vs. total, RFS breakdowns by building or data hall.

Schedule health, scored automatically

DCMA-standard diagnostics plus Forge's own credibility, stability, and realism scores.

Lookaheads that build themselves

A 1-week to 3-month lookahead of upcoming activities, exportable to Excel or PDF.

Gantts anyone can build

Grouped by project, building, equipment, phase, or status, with baseline comparison and risk coloring.

Milestones tracked the same way on every project

Land Acquisition through Commissioning, tracked consistently across every program.

Milestone tracking

Track every milestone against plan.

See permitting, construction, and commissioning milestones plotted against your baseline schedule, with drift flagged the moment it happens. The same milestone set on every project, so a program roll-up actually means something.

Forge permitting milestones Gantt chart with activity rows and diamond milestone markers across a multi-year timeline
How the schedule gets in

Forge doesn't connect live to P6 or OPC. On purpose.

Your published schedule is the contemporaneous record of the program. It's the version that gets referenced when a delay claim is argued. Forge reads that record and leaves it exactly as it was filed. No write-back, no live sync, no risk that a reporting tool alters the file of account.

Works with what you already use

.xer and .xml from Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud. Desktop or cloud. Both supported.

No integration project

No IT engagement, no credentials into your scheduling environment, no security review of a live connection.

The full history, retained

Every publish is kept and comparable, which is what makes trending and credibility scoring possible at all.

Published schedule
Oracle
P6 or OPC · .xer / .xml
Read-only model
Forge
Every view, rebuilt
Program Rollups
Megawatt Delivery
Schedule Health
Lookahead
Gantt Builder

Forge is tuned for data centers. Phases of construction, megawatt calculations, metrics, and dashboards. The tuning is what makes it useful on day one.

PO Placement
Early Civil
Utility Power On
Weather Tight
ESA (Early Site Access)
TFO (Tenant Fit-Out)
Rack & Stack
RFS (Ready for Service)
LLE Phase Release
L4 Commissioning

Stop asking for the schedule. Start understanding it.

See Forge running against a program that looks like yours.