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Clash Detection in BIM

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Please find herewith great article on the topic of Clash detection in BIMhttp://www.bimjournal.com/2012/03/clash-detection-in-bim-modeling/ buildingSMART MENA & India is hosting a User Group in Abu Dhabi on the 19th March which will feature practical...

Mar 11, 2012

Communications in planning & scheduling

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I'd like to get the opinion from the senior planners / schedulers as to how they handle the communications regarding the schedule. For instance, how do you publish the schedule once it is updated? How do you respond when someone else other than your ...

Mar 12, 2012

Difference between Pertmaster & Primavera Risk Analysis

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HI,As the subject suggests i'm keen to find out if there is any difference in use/functionality etc between Pertmaster and Primavera Risk Analysis.  I have used Pertmaster briefly in the past on P3 programmes but i may need to use Primavera risk Anal...

Mar 12, 2012

I need advice plz in linking projects

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  Dear All valued membersQ. I have 14 small projects (similar in scope with small variation in details, scattered all over the country) which are planned in separate 14 programs but they came under one contract. For EOT purposes I am supposed to show...

Mar 12, 2012

Earned Value Management Lite (EVM Lite)?

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Hi Guys, Here's an attempt to define EVM Lite that is a term widely touted among vendors http://bit.ly/z1MqFS Let me know what you think. Emily

Mar 12, 2012

Resource Usage Profile

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Hi, I developed one programme with labour units input (resource). While preparing the resource distribution month wise, it was working smoothly from Toools- Report Wizard. But not working properly with Resource spread sheet. Problem in detail: 1. Fro...

Mar 12, 2012

Programming and Scheduling of Repetitive workstreams

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I am looking for some guidance and personal experiences of programme scheduling for repetitive work on numerous sites. Although this relates to construction work, I feel sure the same principles would apply to inspection or maintenance schedules as w...

Mar 12, 2012

forecast curve

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hai can anyone give me sample how how forecast curve looks like. i have no idea how its looks like and since there is considerable delay in our procurment our clinet (Total) has asked us to put the forecast curve ( we had only planned curve and actua...

Mar 12, 2012

Import Excel into p6

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I am having issues when importing back to p6.  For instance, I was asked to input a role into the information.  When I export to excel to speed up te process of adding the same role to every line item I run into issues when bringing it back into p6. ...

Mar 12, 2012

Import Excel into p6

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I am having issues when importing back to p6.  For instance, I was asked to input a role into the information.  When I export to excel to speed up te process of adding the same role to every line item I run into issues when bringing it back into p6. ...

Mar 12, 2012

Import Excel into p6

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I am having issues when importing back to p6.  For instance, I was asked to input a role into the information.  When I export to excel to speed up te process of adding the same role to every line item I run into issues when bringing it back into p6. ...

Mar 12, 2012

Provisional sum

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Dear All,How to minimise the risk of Provisional sum in contract after the award of LOI.MArgin for PS  is fixed at the time od award of LOI.We know that later on this items wont come & we didnt get that marginat the end of project. Is there any provi...

Mar 13, 2012

Bar Labels

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Hi, I have Actual work (blue Bar) and critical remaining work (red bar) against the same activity. The activity name is shown twice against the activity. How can i delete one activity name so that it is only shown once. I have activities with just ac...

Mar 13, 2012

P6 unusual error

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Hi to all, One of my friend inquire about this problem he encounter. Usually, when exiting the P6 with open project and trying to re-open again P6, the display will show the project that was left opened before exiting. Suddenly, when exiting the P6 w...

Mar 14, 2012

Add calender to custom fieldes

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Hello planners,   I need help to add project calender to this formula.   ([Start]+[Duration3]/480)   I have made a PERT add in to MSP 2010 and whant to display the optimistic ending in the summary. I'm sure that someone is sitting on this knowledge o...

Mar 14, 2012

SIMOPS Planning

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Hi I find it very difficult to plan the SIMOPS into the schedule. Say you have a limited work area and you have hi-pressure activities such as leak tests in that area. When you do the leak tests, all other activities must stop. What I have done is to...

Mar 14, 2012

SIMOPS Planning

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Hi I find it very difficult to plan the SIMOPS into the schedule. Say you have a limited work area and you have hi-pressure activities such as leak tests in that area. When you do the leak tests, all other activities must stop. What I have done is to...

Mar 14, 2012

Cleaning schedule relationships

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Hi planners,I have a schedule which contains many unnecessary relationships that I have to remove.I started with the following case : if I have 3 activities A, B & CA --- FS---> BB --- FS---> CA --- FS---> C ( I have to remove the third relationship)...

Mar 14, 2012

As late as possible constraint

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Hi,Currenlty carrying out a tidy up operation on a BAeline programme prior to a delay analysis.My question is how would you deal with a set of activities that have no predecessor and have an 'As late as possible' constraint assigned to them??Thanks i...

Mar 14, 2012