Project Consulting & Scheduling Services (PCSS), and its founder and president Loren G. Shepherd, PE, have directed scores of public and private sector construction projects over the past three decades, including:
- SCHEDULING CONSULTANT & TURNOVER / CLOSEOUT OAR – Los Angeles Unified School District – Valley Region Span K-8 School #1 Project (Middle School & Elementary School)
- SCHEDULING DEPARTMENT MANAGER – to the Construction Manager for the $2B+ Metropolitan Water District’s Diamond Valley Lake Reservoir Project in Riverside County (the largest civil / earthmoving project in United States history). This department performed schedule review and analysis for up to nine major concurrent projects underway at any single time. Schedule claims were in the $100M+ class and were investigated and analyzed by this department.
- SCHEDULE CONSULTANT – to the Construction Manager for the Central Coast Water Authority in Buellton, CA. CCWA is a joint powers authority comprised of eight-member agencies and 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. The distribution system consists of an approximate 130-mile-long pipeline, treated water tanks at the water treatment plant, three interim storage facilities, one energy dissipation facility, nine turnouts, four isolation valve facilities, a chloramines removal and water pumping facility and Lake Cachuma inlet monitoring facility.
- SCHEDULE CONSULTANT – to the Construction Manager for the Renovation / Restoration of the historic old Broadway Department Store at 4th and Broadway into the new California State Office Building with new Seismic Upgrades and Historic Preservation.
- SCHEDULE CONSULTANT- 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.
- City of Los Angeles: NOS Rehabilitation Phase 2 Project
- Pacific Alliance Medical Center: Claims Investigation & Render Opinion
- Huntington Memorial Hospital Claims Investigation
- Alameda Corridor New Track Connection C0734 Project
- CALTRANS Fencing Project 08-0C2904
- Paul Williams Cultural Center – Historic Preservation & Reuse
- Del Monte Foods – Building Expansion Cost Estimate
- City of Los Angeles Fire Bond Program: Los Angeles Fire Station #82 – Peer Review
- City of Los Angeles: Alvarado Crandall Relief Sewer Project
- Ivy Property Group: Beverly Blvd. Project
- First Lutheran Church: Addition & Renovation Project
- Peck Jones: Bankruptcy Case – Render Opinion
- NOVA Disney Hotel Renovations Project: Develop multiple construction scheduling scenarios
- City of Los Angeles: Fire Station Fuel Monitoring System Inspections and Alarm Documentation
- Contractor: Primavera Training Sessions
- City of Los Angeles: COS Rehab. NORS Diversion 4 to Market Street Project
- Alameda Corridor: CP Thenard New Track Connections Project
- VA Hospital Mathers: Infrastructure Improvements Project
- Santa Fe Springs: Community Center Rehab Project
- Alameda Corridor: San Bruno Grade Separation Project
- San Pedro Community & Senior Services Center Addition Project
- Los Angeles World Airports: LAX ARFF Fire Station No. 80 Project
- John Wayne Airport Shade Structures: Schedule delay analysis & Claims investigation
- Tampa & Winnetka Bridge: Widening over LA River
- Old Town Newhall: Library Project
- HACLA: Retrofit Project
- Antelope Valley Hospital: Lab Relocation & Blood Draw / Donor TI Project
- Redondo Beach Pier Project
- City of Los Angeles Fire Bond Program: Fire Station #07: Peer Review
- Pressman Academy: Electrical Cost Estimate
- City of Los Angeles: South Interceptor Wood St. Rehabilitation Phase 2 Project
- Alosta Ave. Over Little Dalton Wash Project
- City of Los Angeles: COS Rehabilitation Market St. to Slauson Ave. and at 59th Street and 4th Avenue Project
- Statewide Auto Sales: Electrical Labor & Cost Estimate
- City of Los Angeles Fire Bond Program: Baldwin Hills Communications Facility – Peer Review
- City of Los Angeles Fire Bond Program: Mount Lee Communications Facility – Peer Review
- SCRRA: Valley & Ventura Subdivision Grade Crossing Improvements
- El Toro Water District Recycled Water Expansion Project: West Side Distribution
- City of Los Angeles Fire Bond Program: New Fire Station 39: Peer Review
- Alameda Corridor East Construction Authority: San Gabriel Trench Project
- City of Los Angeles: La Cienega Interceptor Sewer (LCIS) Rehabilitation Jefferson to La Cienega Project
- City of Los Angeles Fire Bond Program: LAFD Liquid Oxygen Storage Tank Cost Estimate
- County of Los Angeles: 10th Street West Transmission Main, Phase 3B Project (Avenue H to Jackson Street)
- Orange County Sanitation District – Newhope / Placentia Trunk Sewer Replacement – Fullerton / Anaheim Segment “A”