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REPORT ENGINEER

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Hi all,Please I am invited for an interview as a reporting engineer in BOQ department, can someone tell me expected interview questionsThanks

Oct 13, 2015

Filtering Formula Columns

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Hi Guys,I have created a formula column called ductwork, which simply outputs a 1 if the task name contains the word ductwork and 0 if not. My formula works great, however I would now like to create a filter to hide all 0's in a column, I have tried ...

Oct 14, 2015

EOT Claim

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Hi,Due to a client delay causing event, we modified one of the schedule calendars and addedd a night sheeft into it as a sort of mitigation to avoid slippage on practical completion date. ( without any direct instruction from our client) By removing ...

Oct 15, 2015

Update resources with lag

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Hello,I have an issue when I update my resources scheduled for resources with an Original lag. If my resource has a 11days lag (original lag column) and if my activity has only started since 5 days then my Actual Units should be 0 and I should have n...

Oct 15, 2015

S curves

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I am trying to get the S curve from EPC without the loaded resources or the expenses . I have the % weightages of the different activities. How can I complete this assignment?

Oct 15, 2015

Forecast Scheduling

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Forecast Scheduling is a way to keep your schedule dates up-to-date through all the chaos of the execution process http://ow.ly/Tu8GR

Oct 16, 2015

Weather

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Dear All,For the Activity schedule and the resource loading is it required to included the hours or percentage for the weather factor.Regards

Oct 18, 2015

Impacted as Planned on Recovery Schedule or BL Programme using P6

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 Dear All, I want to perform a delay analysis using Impacted as Planned method,but my problem is which programme should I'm going to use?Contractor agreed and submitted a recovery programme and we have approved it.Since we are facing a number of 10 c...

Oct 20, 2015

Unit mhrs

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Dear ALL,For the contruction planning what will be the right method on the manpower histogram.Do i need to basing the unit man hour from the contract B.O.Q or from the manpower estimation on each activity.Any advise please...Regard'sRon

Oct 21, 2015

Material resource Default units/time

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Hi to all! I am a bit confused regarding default units/time for any resource matreial specially concrete.Somebody informed me that put ZERO in default units/time in any material resource and after doing this the budgeted units also become zero.Please...

Oct 21, 2015

Material resource Default units/time

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Hi to all! I am a bit confused regarding default units/time for any resource matreial specially concrete.Somebody informed me that put ZERO in default units/time in any material resource and after doing this the budgeted units also become zero.Please...

Oct 21, 2015

Removing Negative Lags from Primavera P6 Schedules

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Some industries frown upon the use of negative lags or leads in your schedule. If you're bidding on one of these types of contracts, then you may need to remove any negative leads and lags in your schedule. Here's how you can remove them from a Prima...

Oct 21, 2015

To Shorten The Critical Path

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Here's a look at the primary ways to shorten the critical path of a project http://ow.ly/TL6Ox

Oct 23, 2015

Productivity Rate for construction activities

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Hi All, I looking for a productivity rate I can use for Project Planning like for Concrete volume in cu meter - how many workers required and manhour requirement for formworks, rebar installation and concrete casting.Can anyone help me.Thanks.Vincent...

Oct 24, 2015

Primavea vs MS Project

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Good day, I use MS project and currently try to move to Primavera. But there are some things that I can do in Primavera. For example in attached photo you can find screenshot from MS project where I allocated resource to activity and entered planned ...

Mar 26, 2015

New to Maintenance/ Shutdown scheduling

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Hi, my experience has always been project planning.  Recently I've been assigned to do maintenance/ shutdown scheduling (CPF, well pads), I'm having a hard time figuring out how to approach it.  In projects world, I've always been doing the top down ...

Mar 26, 2015