Lead Planner Overview: A leading main contractor is seeking a Lead Planner to take ownership of complex London projects. If you’re the planner who ends up fixing the baseline rather than breaking it, this role will suit you. You’ll bring genuine tech...
THIS IS YOUR YEAR.But… is your current role actually helping you become a better planner?I speak to a lot of planners, engineers, and site managers every week.And the same thing keeps coming up…They’re busy.They’re updating programmes.They’re hitting...
Title: Planning Manager (MEP)Location: West Sussex (3 Days Site / 2 Days Remote)Salary: £85-95,000 + car allowance + packageA busy contractor delivering a major long-term project in West Sussex is seeking an experienced Planning Manager with strong M...
Title: Senior Tender PlannerLocation: Manchester (Hybrid)Salary: £80-90,000 + car allowance + packageA leading UK main contractor is seeking an experienced Senior Tender Planner to join their pre-construction team in Manchester. This is an excellent ...
Title: Construction PlannerLocation: Central LondonSalary: £55-75,000 + packageA leading UK main contractor is seeking an experienced Construction Planner to join their London team. This is an excellent opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of h...
Title: Senior Planning EngineerLocation: Cardiff (Hybrid)Salary: £70-85,000 + packageA dynamic and growing project consultancy based in Cardiff is looking to appoint an experienced Senior Planner to join their expanding team. This is an excellent opp...
Title: Planning EngineerLocation: Plymouth (Hybrid)Salary: £50-70,000 + car allowance + packageA leading UK main contractor is seeking an experienced Planning Engineer to join the team delivering a complex £150m heavy civil engineering project in Ply...
A line on a [[bar chart]] that represents the timing and duration of an activity.
Budget & Cost Loading...
It can be defined, generally, as a sum of money that has been allocated for a particular prupose, or event. A budget represents an approved estimate for either the entire project or for a particular schedule [[activity]] or work structure breakdown c...
Schedule Maintenance related issues:
Schedule Usage related issues:
Schedule Levels... When producing programmes for a project, I use the following levels of programmes: LEVEL 1 : Project Management overview schedule/programme, by Project Phase. LEVEL 2 : Area or Process/Utility Unit schedule/programme, by Project Ph...
Activity Codes / Coding Systems One objective in many construction planning efforts is to define the plan within the constraints of a universal coding system for identifying activities. Each activity defined for a project would be identified by a pre...
Activity Durations... In most scheduling procedures, each work activity has an associated time duration. These durations are used extensively in preparing a schedule. All formal scheduling procedures rely upon estimates of the durations of the variou...
Schedule Construction related issues:
Introduction The claiming and granting of extensions of time in large infrastructure projects is often a complicated and fractious process. One common reason for this is the issue of concurrent delay. A concurrent delay occurs when two or more causes...
Planning Terms
A parameter of [[Earned Value Analysis]]. The difference between the [[Budgeted Cost]] of work carried out and the budgeted cost of work planned. The difference between the planned performance and actual performance. The difference between identical ...
Principles of Construction Often known as "Colcrete" piling, which is a type of trade name. Usually replaced by diaphragm walling methods.Essentially typical bored piles, or down-the-hold bored piles, are constructed with a spacing such that each pil...