Shift Work and Daylight Savings
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Dear Bernard,
This is always happening in these fast track projects in Qatar, UAE or others where the Owners want their projects "yesterday". For this reason, Main Contractor is to work hard to complete the job on time, therefore shift work is one of the solutions to achieve this. In these fast-track projects, one hour counts and its imperative that Main Contractor makes use of every single hour to meet the challenge in performing and delivering on time the project. When jumping backward or forward an hour, suggest that schedule to be revised at that certain data date with the new adjustment of time and get the consent of Engineer & Employer in doing that to avoid any disputes.
In fact, planners do not revise original or baseline schedules for one single hour but some of them will modify only the updated schedule in adjusting working hours in each shift.In Planners opinions, one hour is not worth to do any change specially that Liquidated Damages will not be applied from a specific time in the contract completion date.
However, its not a question only of jumping one hour but the impact of this change in workers and employees schedules and their productivities. Why? Because psychologically speaking, time change affects peoples behaviour, breaks the everydays routine, etc. for a short period (few days), before peopole are used to this new timing schedule.
Regards,
J. S. Daniel