Ali,

I am currently in a similar situation. I did not know the Owner’s required WBS before starting to create the schedule and we won’t actually build the job in that order anyway. I set the scedule up by phase, area, level, etc. in the construction sequence we are going to follow. Now that I have received the WBS from our Owner, fortunately I only have to use it at a project level as I have multiple projects contained within one master. In your case, I would do the setup the same way, create it per zone and them apply the WBS codes. It sounds like you might need to add additional activities to account for the same type of activity within different zones. For like activities, differentiate them with a suffix on their activity description if they are in multiple zones or same zones with the same WBS. Hope this helps.

File is accessible if you scroll down to bottom of the web page. Then click the "free" button. You got to wait some time tho, around 1 minute.

Hi All

WBS is IMHO the greatest tool in project planning. It confirms the scope of the project, it requires a disciplined pre defined structure which makes further filters and views easier to create. The only thing I have against it is that I think it should be slightly more than just a WORK Breakdown Structure, ie t should also contain non work items such as geographical location etc. But hey, whats in a name ?
Some software is very good with WBS and others rather poor. It also depends a lot on personal style and methodology.

Cheers