Quartier Central — Office Tower.
A 34-storey downtown office tower delivered to a fixed leasing date — handed over on time, with anchor tenants moving in on schedule.
A leasing date the building couldn't miss.
The developer had signed anchor tenants to fixed occupancy dates before the tower was out of the ground. Every floor of the 34-storey build carried a leasing commitment, and financing milestones were tied to the same calendar — leaving no slack between topping-out and tenant move-in.
CREO was engaged as owner's representative and project controls lead: accountable for protecting the budget, holding the schedule across design and construction, and keeping a record clean enough to settle change without dispute.
- Project & cost controls
- Owner's representation
- Common data environment (PMIS)
- Tenant fit-out coordination
- Document control
- Claims avoidance & support
The challenge
Design changes and long-lead façade procurement collided in the first year, and the construction schedule began to drift against the leasing dates the developer had already committed to.
The owner needed a single, trusted forecast — one that showed where the schedule really stood and what it would take to protect the opening, early enough to act on.
Our approach
- 01Set one cost and schedule baselineEstablished a single controls baseline across design and construction — every change measured against it before it was approved.
- 02Ran a live critical-path forecastMaintained a rolling forecast to the leasing date, surfacing slippage while there was still time to recover it.
- 03Coordinated fit-out into the master planFolded tenant fit-out into the master schedule so base-building and tenant work never collided on the critical path.
- 04Kept change documented and settledTied every change to a documented cause as it happened — keeping the record clean and change settled without dispute.
Open on the leasing date.
“CREO kept the whole building on one forecast. We always knew where the schedule stood — and what it would take to protect the opening. That's what got our tenants in on time.”