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Risk Registers or Schedule Analysis

QUESTIONDear Mr Risk,We run intensive risk workshops every month where we run through an ever growing register of what might go wrong and form all sorts of aspects – quality, finance, war!, subcontractor problems, flood, collapse, changes as well as ...

Optimistic and Pessimistic Durations

QUESTION Dear Mr Risk,I have populated my schedule with optimistic and pessimistic durations that sit around the durations assigned in our proposed baseline. We have run our analysis package and produced a very nice ‘normal curve’ with various percen...

Defining Activity Codes in Primavera 6 R8.1

What are Activity Codes in P6?            Activity codes can be assumed as Categories under which we categorize the activities. E.g. if a project has 3000 activities then it is very hard to manage all the activities or to filter out some specific act...

Delay Analysis

News: Friday 6th April 2012

NEWS UPDATE..Dear Planners, Schedulers and Project Controls Professionals.Here is an update from us with some current and, we hope, pertinent news.Regards... Planning Planet TeamPLANNER & SCHEDULER AWARDS...The Planning & Scheduling Awards and Sympos...

Calendar for scheduling relationship lags

QUESTION Dear Mr P6 Civils,When running our calculations in P6 8.2, we noticed that under schedule options, the calendar for scheduling relationship lags was set to Successor Activity Calendar.  I assumed is should be scheduling off of Predecessor Ac...

Introduction to Primavera 6 R8.1 (P6 R8.1)

By the Introduction to P6 R8.1, we mean the basic understanding and procedures required to start up a new project in P6 R8.1. As we know that the P6 is one of the leading softwares in the world in the field of Project Planning and COntrol; it has som...

OBS and EPS in Primavera P6

The EPS (Enterprise Project Structure) is a logical, meaningful, hierarchical arrangement of all the projects in your organization. This is a view of the company showing its areas of operations.EPS is a hierarchical arrangement of projects in an orga...

Ownership of Float

Ownership of Float BACKGROUNDWho owns the float? The purpose of this article is not to re-invent the wheel and dwell in to the complexity which already revolves around this Million dollar question. However, this question commands utmost respect regar...

Human mistakes

As I observed working at different international power plant construction project over the world, the huge amount of human mistakes is significantly grows from one project schedule update to another during the whole project lifecycle from kick-off me...

Utilizing CPM Schedules to Track Resources Can Cuts Costs

Aegis Project Controls’ primary purpose is to support project management teams in their efforts to minimize the duration, risk and cost associated with their projects. While critical Path Method schedules are widely recognized for their ability to ma...

Bridge Items - Work Activity Base Production Rates in USA

Work Activity Base Production RatesItemUnitBase RateMetric Base Rate      Grade Items         MobilizationDays5       Clearing & GrubbingAcres31      Demo. Of BuildingsEach1       Asbestos Rem.(Res./Small Commercial)Days4       Asbestos Rem.(Large Co...

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Automated BIM-based Construction Progress & Reporting

            Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Automated BIM-based Construction Progress & Reporting               ABSTRACT-The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and drones has increased in recent years in the construction industry. The progress ...