Senior-Level CPM Scheduling & Project Controls for Complex Construction
Streamline Management Solutions brings more than 30 years of planning leadership on the industry's most demanding programs — helping owners, developers, and builders protect schedules, manage risk, and deliver with confidence.
Streamline Management Solutions is a construction planning and CPM scheduling consultancy focused on helping project teams bring clarity, discipline, and confidence to project delivery.
We start by understanding what matters most to our clients — their priorities, constraints, and decision drivers — and keep those in focus throughout the project lifecycle. Our role is often to cut through complexity, clarify what truly matters to project success, and help leadership respond with purpose rather than reaction.
We place a strong value on fairness, professional integrity, and sound judgment — providing advice that is clear, balanced, and grounded in facts, even when that advice is not always easy.
Our mission is simple: turn complexity into clarity to drive successful project outcomes — guided by our founding principle, Complicated Made Simple.
- 01 Realistic sequencing and constructability
- 02 Management of critical and near-critical paths
- 03 Logistics, permitting, and procurement constraints
- 04 Identification and management of risk
- 05 Early recognition of emerging issues
We believe schedules should support clarity, accountability, and informed action. That principle guides how we approach our work.
Projects rarely fail because of a single issue.
More often, challenges compound across planning, sequencing, procurement, approvals, and execution — reducing visibility, increasing risk, and putting project deliverables under pressure.
We help project teams identify, untangle, and address these issues early, set clear priorities, and restore clarity before they become disruptive or difficult to recover.
- Limited or unreliable visibility into critical and near-critical schedule drivers
- Misaligned sequencing, logic gaps, or unrealistic assumptions within baseline schedules
- Competing priorities across trades, work packages, and stakeholders without a clear path forward
- Procurement, permitting, or approval constraints not fully integrated into the construction plan
- Schedule updates that report status but fail to highlight emerging risks or trends
- Incremental slippage accumulating without clear accountability or mitigation strategy
- Delayed decision-making due to unclear impacts or conflicting information
Project Planning & Delivery Advisory
Strategic, end-to-end planning that aligns scope, priorities, logistics, regulatory requirements, and risk into an executable delivery strategy — defining what success looks like before construction starts.
CPM Scheduling & Schedule Controls
Primavera P6 baseline schedules built around constructability and active control of critical paths — schedules that remain credible and reliable as projects evolve.
Scheduling Best Practices & Implementation Advisory
Practical scheduling standards for project teams, owner programs, and contractor organizations — establishing what good scheduling looks like, and how to implement it.
Construction Advisory & Peer Review
Independent senior-level peer reviews of schedules, logistics plans, and delivery strategies — objective second opinions that identify risk and enable confident decisions.
Delay Mitigation & Claims Avoidance
Proactive identification of schedule risks and emerging delay issues — preventing disputes through disciplined scheduling and early intervention, before problems escalate to claims.
Expert Analysis & Testimony
Independent schedule delay analysis for disputes, mediation, arbitration, and litigation — proven forensic methodologies producing defensible, fact-based analysis that stands up to scrutiny.
Effective schedules support decision-making, not just compliance. Every SMS engagement follows a structured, disciplined process:
Understand the Project
Scope, contracts, deliverables, priorities, and risk profile.
Identify Constraints & Opportunities
Logistics, access, permitting, procurement, sequencing, contingency exposure.
Build the Plan
CPM logic grounded in constructability, production, and milestone alignment.
Controls & Early Warning
Continuous review of critical paths, trends, and emerging risks.
Support Delivery & Review
Mitigation when issues arise; clear, defensible analysis when required.
Active SMS Engagements
Court Square — Long Island City
55-story, 700,000 SF condominium tower with commercial podium — 636 residences targeted for 2028 delivery.
570 Fifth Avenue — Diamond District
32-story, 1.1M SF Class A tower anchored by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and a flagship IKEA.
50 West 66th Street — Upper West Side
52-story, 775-foot Snøhetta-designed condominium tower — the tallest building in the neighborhood.
175 Third Street — Gowanus
1.1M SF Bjarke Ingels–designed development delivering over 1,000 rental apartments on the Gowanus Canal.
Northwell Health — 1345 Third Avenue
Clinical facility construction for one of the nation's largest health systems on a constrained Upper East Side site.
River's Edge — Riverdale
New York City's first Life Plan Community, on RiverSpring Living's 32-acre Hudson River campus.
Principal Career Experience
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Supertalls & Residential
- Central Park Tower Tallest residential in the Western Hemisphere
- 220 Central Park South Robert A.M. Stern — ~$1.5B program
- 53W53 (MoMA Tower) Jean Nouvel — integrated with MoMA
- One Manhattan Square 80-story Extell tower, Lower East Side
- Claremont Hall 42-story tower within an active academic campus
Cultural, Civic & Federal
- National September 11 Memorial & Museum World Trade Center
- Jerome L. Greene Science Center Columbia University Manhattanville
- Theodore Roosevelt U.S. Courthouse Downtown Brooklyn
- Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse $314M landmark renovation
- Metropolitan Detention Center Federal Bureau of Prisons
Healthcare, Aviation & Commercial
- NYU Langone Health 50+ projects, program-level relationship
- NewYork-Presbyterian Multi-campus planning & scheduling
- JFK Terminal 4 Expansion $1.2B two-phase active-airport program
- AOL Time Warner Center ~$1.7B mixed-use, Columbus Circle
- Disney Headquarters New York, NY
Leonard Kogan
Leonard Kogan is a construction planning and scheduling expert with more than 30 years of experience supporting complex, high-profile projects. He has led and managed CPM scheduling functions for premier international construction management firms — spanning landmark supertalls, nationally significant memorial and museum projects, major healthcare programs, life science facilities, federal courthouses, and aviation infrastructure.
With a background in structural engineering and an MBA focused on financial and strategic management, Leonard brings both technical rigor and business acumen to every engagement.
As Founder and Principal, Leonard is directly involved in every engagement — ensuring senior-level insight and practical guidance tailored to each project.
Speak with LeonardHow to Be Smart About Intermediate Milestones
A milestone is rarely just a date — it's a date, a space, and a quantity, and usually only one of them is what the client truly needs. How to find the variable that matters, understand what's really driving it, and engineer the critical path to deliver it.
Read article →When Is the Right Time to Remove the Construction Hoist?
It sounds like a logistical question, but it's really a critical-path schedule decision — one that revenue, liquidated damages, financing, and occupancy commitments are quietly tied to.
Read article →Schedules Should Be Tools, Not Just Paperwork
Planning precedes scheduling. Ownership defines control. The critical path is a statement of priorities. Hope is not a strategy. The working principles behind how SMS approaches every engagement.
Read article →Adapted from Leonard Kogan's ongoing LinkedIn series — follow on LinkedIn →
A consultancy built by builders, for builders — supporting stakeholders who need schedule truth, early risk insight, and practical solutions.
Owners
Individuals or entities controlling a property or project who require expert planning and delivery oversight.
Developers
Visionaries and operators leading project conception, planning, and execution — relying on our experience to navigate complexity.
Construction Managers
Professionals coordinating delivery across multiple stakeholders, benefitting from our planning and CPM expertise.
General Contractors
Builders engaging our services for streamlined planning, scheduling, controls, and delay management.
Financial Institutions
Banks and lenders that rely on our analysis for informed decision-making and risk assessment.
Insurance Companies
Carriers and counsel that engage our expertise on schedule analysis, delay claims, and risk evaluation.
Managing a complex project and need clear visibility into schedule risk, critical paths, or recovery options?
Initial conversations are exploratory — focused on understanding your project's challenges, priorities, and constraints. Senior-level insight from the first conversation.
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