Multifamily / Unit Renovation
A defined standard. Repeated across the program.
ABC runs apartment renovations as a coordinated program: a defined scope and standard for each unit type, with approved variations recorded. Early units establish the sequence and durations. The program then advances in planned groups, with readiness checks before work starts, quality checks during execution, and verification before turnover.
The standard, built up on the unit's own clock
Select an activity in this illustrative apartment renovation to see where the work occurs, what it includes, and what must be checked before the next step.
Select a step
Illustrative. A generic unit, not a property.
A unit renovation, step by step
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D1 to D11 are relative working days for this unit, not dates for the whole program. If one unit is delayed, actual effects on other units depend on shared trades, access, systems, and materials.
DemolitionUnit day 1 · Demolition
Works in every room.
Work included Floor protection on the route from the entry. Existing cabinets, fixtures and finishes out; the shell is what is left.
Protection first, then removal. Conditions behind the finishes begin to show here, which is why the standard is designed to absorb a scope change on day one rather than be surprised by one later.
Twenty units, one Day 1.
ABC plans groups of units to run concurrently where readiness, access, space, and qualified trade capacity support it. Each unit follows its own sequence. When a condition interrupts one unit, ABC evaluates the shared dependencies and keeps unaffected work moving where the program allows.
A wave of units on their own clocks
Each row represents one unit following the illustrative sequence. Units start together or in groups. In this example, the delayed units have no shared dependency that stops the others.
Choose the group size and release pattern, move through the days, and select a unit.
Illustrative
Program day 1
- In Progress
- 20
- Delayed units
- 0
- Completed
- 0
- On Notice
- 0
Unit 07 released day 1
Blocked from its day 3: Concealed condition behind the wet wall. Decision issued and made; work resumed on its own clock.
Gates on program day 14, 3 days behind its wave. The other 18 units were not affected.
20 units released together are all on Day 1 together: demolition in every one of them the same day, paint three days later, flooring a week later. Trade coverage is assembled to that requirement before release.
- Completed
- In Progress today
- Planned
- Delayed: blocked or correcting work at a quality check
- Quality gate
Illustrative. Unit days are each unit’s own clock; program days are working days from the first release.
An issue in one unit does not have to stop unrelated work.
How many units can be open at once is set by the building: the work areas that access, staging, the service elevator and the occupied floors allow. Serial release is used where the program’s conditions require it, not as a default.
The workflow, not the trades.
ABC manages the work from scope through turnover: confirming the requirements, planning the sequence, checking readiness, coordinating trade partners, and verifying the finished unit against the agreed standard.
Qualified subcontracted trade partners perform the field work. ABC coordinates their work against the program’s scope, sequence, and quality requirements. The owner is buying control of the workflow that produces each unit, not a bundle of trades. How trade partners work inside ABC programs
The kinds of program this covers
Vacant-unit renovation
A defined renovation scope completed while the unit is vacant, coordinated with the property’s unit availability and turnover schedule.
Occupied-unit renovation
Renovation with residents in place, planned around access hours, containment, and the restoration requirements in the agreed operating plan.
Repositioning programs
Interior standards lifted across a property to support a changed rent or market position, unit by unit against one specification.
Repeated scopes at scale
One defined scope applied across many units, where setting the standard once pays across the units that follow.
Conversions and special programs
Unit conversions and other nonstandard scopes that require a sequence developed around the building’s specific conditions.
Pilot and smaller programs
A first program run deliberately to establish the standard, establish and measure the durations, and expose the unknowns before scaling.
How a program starts.
Scaling an unproven sequence multiplies the problems inside it. So the program’s own early units establish the standard before the program is released at volume.
01
Establish the conditions on a sample
ABC walks and records a representative sample of units, including substrates, prior work, variations, access, and occupancy. The findings inform the unit standard.
02
Define the standard and the kit
Define the work sequence, trade coverage, staging, and materials for each unit type so crews begin with clear requirements.
03
Prove it on early units, then release in waves
Run the early units to the proposed standard and measure durations, defects, and trade interference. Make corrections before expanding the program. Start later groups as units, materials, work areas, and trade coverage become ready.
The release, verification and measurement behind this are RMS. What RMS controls
Materials must be ready for the work.
Each activity needs its required materials before it starts. The material kit for each unit type identifies products, quantities including waste, sourcing, lead times, and required delivery dates.
When lead times require an early order, identify that commitment before the unit is opened. Avoid relying on a last-minute substitution to recover the schedule.
Plan the production capacity.
ABC evaluates how many units the property can support at once and what trade coverage that work requires. The model below lets you explore unit availability, cycle time, concurrent work, and a target completion date using your own assumptions.
Enter your own assumptions
Your program
Adjustable
Unit days from release to the gate. The illustrative standard runs eleven.
Units that can genuinely run at once: access, staging, elevators, occupancy
Enter the number of units qualified trade coverage can support at once. Use 0 to assume coverage matches the available work areas.
Hours and days the building allows
Leave at 0 if units are not phased onto a release schedule
Optional. Leave at 0 to skip
Program duration
1.7–2.2months
Throughput
18.6–23.6units per month
Limiting factor
Work areas the property supports
12 units in production at once
Program duration range
- Low estimate, 1.7 months
- High estimate, 2.2 months
Why this condition binds
12 units can run at once, which is what access, staging, elevators and occupancy allow in this building. Trade capacity is assembled to those 12 work areas; crews beyond them would have nowhere to work.
Would change the result
- Cycle time: the duration moves in proportion to it, at both ends of the range.
- Working days per week: more productive days per cycle shorten every unit.
- Work areas: another stack, a second route in or a changed staging plan raises the concurrent limit, with trade coverage assembled to match.
Would not, while it binds
- Trade coverage beyond 12: more crews with nowhere to work add cost, not output.
Field capacity to assemble behind 12 work areas
Sustained crews, from the relative timeline at the low cycle
- Demolition2 crews
- Plumbing and electrical4 crews
- Drywall2 crews
- Painting4 crews
- Tile3 crews
- Cabinets and countertops4 crews
- Flooring5 crews
- Carpentry and trim3 crews
- ABC verification2 crews
Assembled from qualified trade partners to this requirement, program by program. A wave released on one day needs more on its first days than the sustained figure. Qualified availability in the market is a condition, not an assumption.
Under these assumptions the program runs about 1.7–2.2 months at 18.6–23.6 units per month. Enter a required completion to test a date against it.
Illustrative model. Enter your own program assumptions. Not a quote or a schedule. Field capacity is assembled around the production requirement, within what the building supports and what qualified trades in the market can genuinely field; it is not a fixed ABC crew count. The cycle time assumes the standard is met and verified at the gates. Verification, required scope, and code and contract obligations are not levers in this model.
What the owner supplies and decides.
The unit standard
Finish selections and the agreed condition the unit must meet at turnover.
Unit availability
Which units are vacant, which turn on a schedule, and whether vacancy will be created deliberately.
Access and occupancy rules
Work windows, notice periods, and the property's own requirements. Agreed with ownership and property management before units are released.
Priorities
Which building, stack or unit type goes first, and what the leasing calendar needs.
Decisions as they arise
A concealed condition, a substitution, a scope change. The program is built to surface these while there is still a choice.
What an owner receives.
A defined standard for each unit type
Written down, with the steps, the requirements and the gates.
A sequence with durations
Established on the program's own early units, not on a unit-type sheet.
A readiness condition for every release
Required conditions for each start, with quality checks during the work and at turnover.
A record of planned against actual
That exists during the program, not reconstructed at the end of it.
Units that meet the turnover criteria
Where an outstanding exception is accepted, it is documented and controlled, never treated as completed work.
The deliverable is a renovated unit. The lasting asset is the documented workflow that produced it, ready for the next comparable units.
Start with the unit types and the turn schedule.
Unit types and count, the occupancy situation, how units become available, and the standard you want to reach. That is enough for a specific first conversation.
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