Hi Planners,
I just moved to a an existing project (consultant) and the program has already been approved. Actually, 35% of the time has already elapsed. My concerns are the following:
1) The activities in the project were hard linked causing the schedule to have a huge negative floats due to the delay of an approval. For instance, the plastering for second floor cannot start unless the plastering for first floor is finished, same with most of the MEP items. The sequence of works is already established on the structural so, imo, there's no need to link each activity per floor to floor.
I discussed this matter to the PM and he said this is how it was approved and if we want to change it it will be an acceleration (which means with cost implication). We discussed it could be the resource allocation btu when I checked it, the resources were not leveled. I suspect it's deliberately done that way or the planner just had that methodology.
Now it's giving is a huge negative float and can be used by the contractor for the time extension.
What should I tell the contractor or to my boss? Should I just let it that way?
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