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Milestone Management

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Milestone Management In order to organise your time and work for the project you have, set up milestones and define a deliverable for each major milestone. They enable the progress of the project to be easier measured and controled. A milestone is a ...

Mar 7, 2009

Progress Reporting

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Progress Reporting Progress reporting is a key element of project management. Reports should be issued by the Project Manager and circulated to the stakeholders on a regular basis. The following people must be included on the circulation list: Projec...

Mar 8, 2009

PERT

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Duration estimation ala PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) originated in the 1950s during the U.S.N. Nautilus nuclear submarine project. PERT has terminology and concepts all its own: •    Optimistic = O •    Most likely = ML •    Pe...

Mar 8, 2009

Hammock Tasks

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A hammock task is dependent on external dates for its start and finish dates and, ultimately, its duration. The name, hammock task, is derived from the way a hammock's shape is determined by the distance between the points to which it is attached. Cr...

Mar 8, 2009

Trending

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What is Trending ? How does it Work ? Incremental measurement of progress over short or long periods of Time Comparison of incremental planned progress with incremental actual progress Identifies all areas where shortfall in progress occurs Quantifie...

Mar 9, 2009

Deltek - Open Plan

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Deltek Open Plan is an enterprise-class project management solution for medium to large/multiple projects. Details: [[http://tinyurl.com/ple5pz]]

Apr 4, 2009

Common Brickwork

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Common Brickwork, by Machine (no/hr)        Hole depth (mm) --> 0-75 75-125 125-250 250-375 375-500 Ne 100 cm2 -  16.6 7.69 5.26 4.00 100-250 cm2 -  12.5 5.88 4.00 2.94 250-500 cm2 -  10.0 5.00 3.33 2.50 500-100 cm2 -  8.33 4.17 2.78 2.08  Common Bri...

Jul 13, 2009

Painting & Decorations

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PaintingTask / DescriptionSlow  Ave  Fast   Units Prepare Walls-  14.2 -   m2/hr Prepare Doors-  12.5 -   m2/hr Prepare Door Frames-  25.0 -   m/hr Burn Off / Heat Strip Paintwork-  1.1 -   m2/hr Internal Timber, 1 coat primer before fixing, generall...

Jul 13, 2009

Preparatory Works

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Strip Existing Wallpapers (3 layers) 5.00 m2/hr Burn Off/Heat Strip Paintwork 1.00 m2/hr Chemically Strip Paintwork 1.30 m2/hr Prepare walls 14.20 m2/hr Prepare door frame 25.00 m/hr Prepare door 12.50 m2/hr

Jul 13, 2009

Internally

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(Rates per coat unless stated otherwise)   One coat primer, before fixing generally 6.70 m2/hr One coat primer, before fixing lengths 20.0 m/hr Knot, 1 primer, stop, 1 undercoat, 1 gloss 1.75 m2/hr Touchup primer, 1 undercoat, 1 coat gloss 3.10 m2/hr...

Jul 13, 2009

Walls

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Jul 13, 2009

Internally

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2 coats emulsion - to plaster 8.00 m2/hr - to brick/blockwork 6.00 m2/hr 1 mist, 2 emulsion - to plaster 6.00 m2/hr - to brick/blockwork 4.50 m2/hr 1 primer, 1 undercoat, 1 gloss - to plaster 2.30 m2/hr Undercoat - to door frame 20.00 m/hr Gloss - to...

Jul 13, 2009

Externally

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2 coats sandtex etc - to render/concrete 2.50 m2/hr - to brick/blockwork 2.00 m2/hr 1 sealer, 2 emulsion - to render/concrete 2.00 m2/hr - to brick/blockwork 1.70 m2/hr

Jul 13, 2009

Floors

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Epoxy floor paint 2.95 m2/hr

Jul 13, 2009

Ceilings

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Emulsion paint - 2 coat 6.05 m2/hr - 3 coats 5.02 m2/hr Textured paint 4.20 m2/hr Artex 4.10 m2/hr

Jul 13, 2009

Pipeline Construction

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Pipe welding is not that straight forward.  You have a number of welding passes to take into consideration, then NDT and finally hydrotesting.  I worked on a pipeline construction project in Iraq and used the following formulae to work out duration f...

Jul 12, 2011

IFC File

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The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data model is intended to describe building and construction industry data.It is a neutral and open specification that is not controlled by a single vendor or group of vendors. It is an object-based file format w...

Jul 12, 2011

Tekla 3D BIM Software

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Tekla develops model-based software products for the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) market, for local government use and for power companies. These products provide users with state-of-the-art features and functionality for creati...

Jul 12, 2011

3D Objects

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3D Objects are 3D digital representations of elements of a 3d BIM model such as RC columns or even a light bulb. They are intelligent items/objects that have unique characteristics such as weight,area,density and volume.

Jul 12, 2011