ABOUT PCSS
History Overview
Founded in 2014, and based in Valencia, California, Project Consulting & Scheduling Services (PCSS) is Southern California’s highly-regarded program/construction management and CPM construction scheduling firm serving both public and private project owners and general contractors of all sizes throughout the Southern California region.
PCSS is led by Loren G. Shepherd, PE, a state-registered professional engineer with over 30 years of proven experience in construction project and program management, schedule development and adherence, constructability reviews, scheduling and delay analysis, electrical design and implementation, budgeting and cost estimation, and risk assessment. With extensive expertise in managing private and public sector projects, PCSS’s attention to detail, deep construction domain knowledge, and demonstrated ability to assist project building teams with highly complex and accelerated schedules to successfully complete their projects on time and on budget make it the perfect business partner.
Mr. Shepherd is a registered professional engineer in the state of California with over 30 years of experience in program and construction management; CPM construction scheduling; project control, change order management; mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) design; schedule delay analysis; construction claims investigation and analysis; budgeting and cost estimating.
Highlights of Mr. Shepherd’s career:
- He was a senior officer of a mid-sized construction management firm in Los Angeles County where he managed professional scheduling and construction claims analysis services for multiple clients.
- He was Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California’s scheduling department manager for the Diamond Valley Lake Reservoir Program, a $2 billion program to bring emergency water to San Diego in the event of a major earthquake. This huge program is on record as the largest civil earth-moving project in United States history. There were five rock quarries with crusher / screening plants, five of the largest shovels in the world, a 60,000-horsepower pumping plant, two 365-feet-high by two miles long rock-filled dams, major tunneling in the hillsides, and an inland feeder plant for processing both Sierra Nevada water and Colorado River water for the first time in California history. Mr. Shepherd was instrumental in investigating and analyzing two major construction claims regarding the blasting and mining of rock for the dams that were in the $100 million class each.
- He was the scheduling consultant to the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA) in Buellton, California. A joint powers authority comprised of eight member agencies, CCWA is a wholesale water provider to 13 water districts and private companies in Santa Barbara County, and another 11 water purchasers in San Luis Obispo County. This project constructed the infrastructure for a water treatment plant and pipeline that delivers water from the State Water Project to project participants in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties.
- He was the MEP constructability and scope compliance reviewer for several new fire stations for the City of Los Angeles Fire Station Bond Program at the 50 and 90 percent document stages.
- He was the only in-house electrical constructability reviewer for numerous new school campuses and building additions that were part of the Los Angeles Unified School District New Building Program Phase 1. This program included the building of 80 new school campuses and 55 major building additions to existing campuses.
- He was the scheduling consultant and turnover / closeout owners authorized representative (OAR) for a grade school and middle school in Sylmar, California. This entailed assuming control of the last 6 months of the project to turn the campus over for use by staff and students and for another year to secure the California’s Division of State Architects (DSA) Certification.
- He was a project executive with the Centralia School District in Buena Park, Calif., where he oversaw a $40 million major renovation and modernization of nine school campuses.
- He held senior project scheduling and management positions with the City of Norwalk, California for its new bus transportation and public services facility project.
- He was the scheduling consultant for the renovation and restoration of the historic old Broadway Department Store at 4th and Broadway into the new State of California Office Building with new seismic upgrades and historic preservation protocols.
- He was the scheduling consultant to Highpoint Rendel (Pinnacle One) for the investigation and analysis of construction claims pertaining to the CDC Susanville Prison Expansion Project and two CALTRANS projects – the Widening of the 405 Freeway and the New Calexico Vehicle Emissions Testing Facility.
Owner Services
PCSS offers public and private project owners a broad range of construction project-related support services to help them stay on track, regardless of the typical schedule delays and project overruns a project may experience.
Contractor Services
PCSS assists public and private general and trade contractors through a spectrum of construction project-related support services that help them keep projects moving forward…on time and under budget.
Claims Services
PCSS has decades of experience reviewing contractor claims on behalf of project owners; protecting owners from invalid or unsubstantiated claims; and working with contractors to keep projects on track in cases where claims are legitimate.