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Free float last activity without successor ?

A simple but confusing question for me:

The last activity in a chain has no successor (there is only the project end date) and this activity has some positive number as a Total Float value.

What should be the Free Float value for this activity ?

What you always read about the definition of free float is that is looks at the successor of an activity, but what if in this case, there is no successor ?

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Activity pausing

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Vinoj Nair 👤 Member for 11 years 9 months

Hey all,

I am concerned about pausing an activity and how?
Currently my problem is ,I had scheduled an activity B to start after A , but due to certain site conditions A won't start and B will start as planned. But since A is having FS relationship with B, the schedule will show a delay and show unrealistic dates . Can any one explain what can be done

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Disable de Sirens -- But Put Out de Critical Path Fires, Too!

I just posted a new article “Disable de Sirens – But Put Out de Critical Path Fires, Too!” on my blog. This article is in explanation to some readers who felt that some of my comments in my previous article (“Whaddya Do When the Critical Path Changes?” ) represented an overreaction to the critical path changing.

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Project Controls Best Practices- Online survey

Dear Friends and Colleagues
I would highly appreciate if you could complete this online survey that I am conducting for my Master's degree. The topic is about the best Project controls practices and its influences on projects.
The survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete and I hope that all planners, schedulers, cost controllers, project controllers, project managers, site managers and construction managers would participate. If you are interested, I would be glad to share the results of my study with you once it is completed.

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"Whaddya Do When the Critical Path Changes?"

I just posted a new article “Whaddya Do When the Critical Path Changes?” on my blog. The article shows how a delay during project execution that changes the critical path requires new analysis of the value, drag, and true cost of the new critical path activities. And how failure to perform such analysis often results in work being performed that costs more than its worth.

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Tasks followed in ELV first fix

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Rajiv SN 👤 Member for 11 years 1 month

Dear Friends,

Am new to construction industry, Currently need to provide Project schedule of tasks for ELV - BMS and GRMS.

Need help & info on every task that needs to be scheduled for ELV Project of an Commercial building. i.e. Need every steps/ task that needs to be considered during 1st 2nd and 3rd fix.

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

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Tasks followed in ELV first fix

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Rajiv SN 👤 Member for 11 years 1 month

Dear Friends,

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Your help will be greatly appreciated.

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Remaining Units are not calculated correctly in Primavera P6

When updating a Baseline project and giving an actual start to a task dependant activity , the sum of remaining units and actual units is not equal to the budgeted units.

Any ideas why this happens?

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Progress monitoring and BIM MSc Thesis

Good morning everyone,

I am a Civil Engineering student currently writing my MSc. Thesis "BIM based progress monitoring" I am trying to develop a method to improve progress monitoring techniques through the use of BIM tools and to get a better understanding of progress monitoring and planning current methodologies I would like to conduct some interviews to professional of the field.

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