Hi,

I would like to express my situation working as a Planner in UAE.
I started off as a Junior Planning Engineer for one of the construction companies in UAE; but being a fresher in Planning, I was at their head office where we used to prepare tender programmes for projects. I learned the basics of planning and the use of primavera. At our project sites Planners prepare monlthy progress updates, monthly reports, resource projections. Thats it..
and sometimes delay impact schedule. Claims is a section dealt by the Quantity Surveyors.
I worked here for 2 years and moved on to another company.
Here I work at the Site as a Planning Engineer, updating progress every now and then, revising programmes very often and I find that programme isnot relaible to give an actual finish date. The planned production is different from the actual production rate, there is no concern for planned production. Obstructions in work occur frequently, which is not recorded, atual progress at site is not quantified nor reported. Consultant Resident Engineer (who knows very little about primavera) checks the resource table and nothing else asks me to keep rectifying the allocated resource, when there is a lot of complications in the resource calculation when the activity actually starts....
I have finally turned out to be a site engineer who updates progress frequently to keep up to this situation.

I hear a lot about forensic claims, delay analysis planner etc...
How can I shift or direct my self into something like that..
Should I do a course...or something..
adding toall this nowadays companies ask for P6 experience.
When Costing on Promavera is not possible, I cant iagine doing it with P6..
Kindly Provide valuable information...
I am runnign out of time..Ill continue the rest of my plight in my next thread