Working in a building that cannot stop
Commercial and multi-unit properties have a schedule of their own, and it was not written around the renovation. Residents move through corridors. Common areas host things that were booked months ago. Deliveries arrive on their own calendar.
Planning around that is the work. Which area comes out of service, in what order, and what has to be walkable by the end of the day are decided with the property, not announced to it.
Our Daytona Beach record is the clearest documentation of this: one floor completely finished, debris out, and only then the next one opened.
Exterior and entry work has a different clock
Entries, walkways and exterior surfaces carry the same traffic as an interior corridor, with weather added. In Florida that means the preparation window is shorter and the consequence of rushing it is faster to appear.
The base has to be prepared and given the conditions it needs, and the schedule has to accommodate that instead of overriding it. An entry is also the one surface every visitor evaluates before they see anything else.
We document exterior base preparation as its own record, because it is the phase where the outcome is actually decided.