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Road works - Best combination to track progress

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Hi all,I am new to planning feild, and need some help regarding the best combination to use in a road projectThe exisiting schedule at my site have all the activities listed "% complete" types as "duration" for all the activities.As its an expressway...

Nov 16, 2014

Hi Everyone

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Hi Everyone,I am new planner who's being asigned to build a draft programme for Earthworks. Please can any one help me out with a basic activities that is required for an earthworks programme in rail or kindly advice me on how to go about it.Many tha...

Nov 16, 2014

Hi Everyone

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Hi Everyone,I am new planner who's being asigned to build a draft programme for Earthworks. Please can any one help me out with a basic activities that is required for an earthworks programme in rail or kindly advice me on how to go about it.Many tha...

Nov 16, 2014

WBS Level Conversion

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I am working in a Project (Owner's rep.) where I have to create level 3 schedule from detailed level 4 schedule. What i do is to use work package WBS level as activities in my level 3 schedule.I tried exporting these level 4 activities to excel and c...

Nov 19, 2014

Productivity norms standards

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Dear all,Hello,              I am involved in a MEP construction project for a high rise project in UAE, I am missing the productivity norms/standard manhours for electrical activities in order to monitor and compare prcisely the planned and actual p...

Nov 19, 2014

Primavera P6 V7.0 resource data export to xl

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Hi GuysAppologies if this is an old chestnut but I have just moved jobs and using P6 V7 for the first time.Also new to this forumI am struggling to get the resource allocation data out of P6 and into xlsTried the wizard but still no joyCould anyone p...

Nov 19, 2014

Primavera P6 V7.0 resource data export to xl

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Hi GuysAppologies if this is an old chestnut but I have just moved jobs and using P6 V7 for the first time.Also new to this forumI am struggling to get the resource allocation data out of P6 and into xlsTried the wizard but still no joyCould anyone p...

Nov 19, 2014

Entry of actual man hours by maintenance supervisor

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In my department there are many kpi's for maintenace planning such as schedule compliance , Planning and Scheduling Effectiveness (Actual versus Planned completion) ,emergancy man hours & rework man-hours.most of those reports are based on the actual...

Nov 19, 2014

scheduling sequence in design and procurement

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Hi all,May i request you time to get some explanation regarding the design and the procurement in a major puming statiion. My understanding is like as follows,1. For the design works, the main contractor will make the Process Flow Diagram(PFD) and th...

Nov 20, 2014

New planning engineering role- Pls Help!!!

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Hi all,Though I'm new to this forum but having read several posts from the archive, I am optimistic that someone will be able to assist me a great deal. Straight to the point, I had just gotten a new role as a planning engineer with a consultant in a...

Nov 20, 2014

Building a 4D Strategy on Top of VDC Principles

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I like to think of Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) as a process that ideally flows through a project, digitally (i.e., virtually) creating, collecting, transporting, and delivering project data from design through construction. The VDC process in...

Nov 21, 2014

EPS for p6 ver. 8.3

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Hello,Good day to you, any body can tell me how to shift project from EPS name to another EPS name ??Reply pme please.

Nov 22, 2014

Activity driving, links problem

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Need Hels guys..ive been using MS Project and P3 for almost 5yrs above and recently ive changed to Enterprise P6 8.2, my problem is when i create my 1st schedule in P6 8.2 after setting activities, duration, predecessor, successor and all, when i cha...

Nov 24, 2014

Time Impact Analysis on as-planned programme

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Hi all,Recently I received a programme, which is scheduled to complete before the contractual completion, say 30 days before, and a buffer activity(30 days) is inserted to meet the contract completion date.I would like to have your views in case of a...

Nov 24, 2014

How To Downgrade Internet Explorer (IE) 11 to IE 10 Or Earlier

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For companies implementing Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Portfolio Project Management (EPPM) R8.3.2 or earlier, you will need to downgrade your user base to IE 10. P6 EPPM is not supported and doesn’t work with IE 11. Whatever your reasons for needi...

Nov 24, 2014

Tunneling -Drill & Blast Excavation rates

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Not really my area, so I thought I'd ask the brains trust: I have a tunnel section of 6m x 8m to be excavated in Granitic material which is likely to be fairly massive. Approx tunnel Length 15km with a mid point adit so each drive is 3-4km. Expectati...

Nov 24, 2014