Hi planners,
Would any one tell me about changes in the project plan? I am working with a (civil) contracting company and doing a high rise commercial tower in Dubai. We also have a sister concern for MEP works. I am the only planning engineer in the company. I made the civil plan for the tower and MEP as well at the same time. Now we have another residential tower and the MEP contractor is one another company. I have made my plan and the execution has already started but the MEP program is not yet submitted to us. My question is, when I receive the MEP program, would I have to insert those activities in the baseline and the current program both or what. Thanx.
Tanveer
Dear Tanveer,
Generally speaking, you might have to merge your subbie's MEP Programme into the latest approved main Baseline Programme and run the schedule to fit the requirement of Contract Key Dates.
Regards,
Raymond Au-Yeung
Remember, not all contracts are equal, here even what I just said is standard practice might not be if the contract is different.
Thank you very much Rafael for your experienced advice
I believe you must revise both the Baseline and Current schedules.
Your practice differs from ours, here the GC has control on the subcontractors schedule as long as it is reasonable, it is a standard condition on all subcontracts. Here the General Contractor schedules the MEP activities and meet with the subcontractor to make sure the schedule is reasonable, that no activity is missing and can be met by the subcontractor, usually minor adjustments are done as prior to signing the subcontract we discuss milestones that the subcontractor must agree in order to avoid surprises. For other subcontracts where there are not many activities interdependence we simply ask for a duration for their work.