Hi all,First post on here and I am a QS so go easy on me! (Admin feel free to move this message if I have posted it in the wrong area). I'm a freelance QS and rather disillusioned with my career. I spent the first couple of years of my career working...
Hi, My activities' % Complete Type is set to "Physical". I enter physical progress of the activities, however the earned values do not change. If i enter duration progress e.g remaining duraiton or labor hours, the earned value change. My question ...
These two videos illustrate how fast it is to prepare resources, roles and all of their information in Excel and export them as XER file directly to Primavera.This is the first video to prepare the resources from completed projects and current projec...
Hi Everyone,In my project i have some activities that can't be executed with delay, the second activity is modeled imediatly after first activity. For this reason I set "strict" on this activities.After scheduling, the report below show me this infor...
Question about insurance liability - this one is only tangently related to our usual schedule items. I am looking at the “value” at bid time of the owner moving from a cap on liability for the contractor comparing 100% of the contract price on liabil...
Greetings PlannersI am updating a baseline schedule, some of the activities that have actual start but not yet completed, their bar after the data date bar is not continous, there is a space between the data date and then the bar for the next period ...
When viewing the primavera Gant chart, the shaded columns representing non-wokring days have become a very light shade of grey and extremly difficult to see.Is there a way to revert them to the original color? or darken the exisiting color?
Hello All, I am a Project Control Engineer in Oil & Gas Sector. I keep on hearing SAP requirement in Planning in some companies. Does anyone have an idea of what it is related to and what course needs to be done. I am in UAE. Reccomendation much appr...
If I contractor is really delayed 10 days in say June, on a two year project, but then is able to work 10 more days in that following December than the assumption in the schedule, should they still get those 10 days of delay? If not, why would anyon...
I want to confirm something.Lets say we have 1000 lf of conduit to install. One labor installs 200 lf conduits a day. Lets call him worker 1. So it will take him 5 days to complete.Now if we had only him as labor, the duration of this task is 1000/20...
When a successor is complete 100% the program just skps to the next successor in the chain, so why should the logic be changed to the way it really happened? Or should we just leave it to keep from complicating the schedule and comparisons? I used ...
Connecting P6 with Submittal Log and Schedule of Values - any good ways or spreadsheet systems? - These items are intertwined - one of the worst things you can do is make the schedule into either a submittal log (or a to do list). But how to you eff...
What happens when the Contract uses a hard NTP & Completion Date but the NTP is not issued on that date? Does the completion date legally have to slide?
I will be teaching a course (for a non-project management audience) in the fall titled: "Profiles of Leadership in Classic Films". One of the films we'll be exploring is The Bridge on the River Kwai. Great flick, which I first watched 55 years ago, h...
Hi All,Need to report 'resource limit' allocated to activities and show on a spread sheet or report. I set up the resources limits as per below, the 'resource usage spreadsheet' still shows the default 8h/d. There are multiple resources (diffrent set...
Hi, Is there a way of changing the logic of a group of task's from FS to SS? regards Pranab
Hi all,When setting up 'resource dependant' activity with a duration of 5 days, then assigning 5 resources to the activity with a shared resource calendar of 4h/d (0800-1200).Can one still get the activities start, finish & duration to not change as...
Hi all,I allocated revenues in a non labor resource assigned to activities. Now, we manually input the monthly revenues we forecast so that the curve for the remaining units (money) is not calculated by the software, maybe applying a resources curve,...
I'm trying to find out if its still possible to purchase a copy of Primavera Contractor.Can anybody help?
Hi Is there any way to collapse summary tasks where OPC = 100% only?My schedule contains a lot completed summary tasks so I don't want to show them in the view with entire content. I can do this manually but looking for more convienient way. Summary...