Illinois State Tollway Highway Authority - Congestion Relief Program

d'Escoto, Inc. provided the following Program Management Services to ISTHA:

     Senior Program Scheduler for the creation of the overall master schedule for the Congestion Relief Project.

     Project Manager for the oversight and coordination between the Construction Manager (CM), the Contractor (GC), and ISTHA departments (Executive, Engineering, Maintenance, Facilities, and Communications).

     Review and processing of pay applications, schedules, design revisions, change orders, extra work orders, claims, and performance evaluations using web-based project management system.

     Review and coordination of the maintenance of traffic (MOT) for each stage of construction with the Tollway staff and any adjoining project staffs.

     Review and processing of CM pay applications and budget oversight Diversity Program oversight and auditing of DBE/EEO contract goals.

d'Escoto, Inc. is directly responsible for managing various aspects of the program including: ensuring proper funding levels, monitoring and reporting on project expenditures, producing and updating the master program schedule, and coordinating the project dependencies.

An important benefit d'Escoto brought to the project was the development of a customized Program Controls system that integrated with the Oracle financial system and Primavera master schedule. The professional application encompassed the entire program scope and included systems to track and manage: program planning, design review, estimating, budgets, contracts, changes, project updates, meeting minutes, transmittals, lessons learned, and time tracking. The Program Controls system is currently being used to produce all of the monthly status reports. The CTA quickly adopted the new system because of its ease of use and flexibility for reporting.