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EOT preparation

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Hello planners,I have been asked to prepare an EOT claim for a project which is in the handing over stage.  Contract duration is 500days and the project end date slipped by an year due to delay in approvals (design, materials) & additional works.My s...

Oct 10, 2011

Baseline Against Current Comparison Report

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Hi Everyone,Our project is currently delayed by 25% from the baseline schedule. My Boss want me create a presentation in P6 comparing the baseline against current schedule and show all the logs. I tried to check the SR-12 report in P3 which matches w...

Oct 10, 2011

Rail Programming help wanted

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Hi All, I would be most appreciative for any help with the following. I am a planner working for Building Construction Company. We are branching out into new territory and consequently i have been tasked with producing a programme for the Rail aspect...

Oct 11, 2011

Mandatory Finish Constraint

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I would like to receive feedback from the experts in regards the following question: Is it proper to put mandatory finish constraint on the end of contract date (Milestone)? In my view, the date will not change if you put a constraint on it unless th...

Oct 11, 2011

Payment for Equipment NEC ECC Option C

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I am relatively new to NEC and am working on a large project. My main question is how should equipment be paid? The contract allows for CECA (-15%) Issues like night shifts (full shifts or not), working days (full days or not) and standing time (disa...

Oct 11, 2011

Critical Path Question

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Hello All,If we have a group of activities that are not shown in critical path,is there a technique to bring them in the Critical path.What My Experience so far is that primavera chooses the critical path itself when you schedule your plan.But if aft...

Oct 11, 2011

Urgent Repsonse

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Hi all , I just created a Baseline , submitted to my client ... which he did replied with comment ... One of the comment sounds confusing to me.. SAT which order wise is know as Materials delivery at site was place under the Procuremnt WBS in my Schd...

Oct 11, 2011

PROGRAMME ACCEPTANCE

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HI, ALL I  am very greatfull  to all of you who have supported me throughout this very challenging period. It my first time working as a lone planner. And the client wants 100% allignment to NEC3. I have made changes where necessary but they still fi...

Oct 11, 2011

How to assign the same baseline to monthly updates?

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How can I assign the same baseline schedule to my current schedule every month? Right now I make a copy of the baseline schedule and assign it as a baseline to my current schedule which means I have a copy of one baseline for each month. I want to av...

Oct 11, 2011

How to assign the same baseline to monthly updates?

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How can I assign the same baseline schedule to my current schedule every month? Right now I make a copy of the baseline schedule and assign it as a baseline to my current schedule which means I have a copy of one baseline for each month. I want to av...

Oct 11, 2011

P3 to XER Converter

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Hi, Does anyone know of a legitimate shareware P3 to XER converter?  I have been sent a P3 file from a contractor and need to import it to a stand alone P6 R8 database.  Please only respond if the shareware is from a reputable source.  Alternatively,...

Oct 12, 2011

Planning Engineer required Qatar - Water

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Hi, Our Middle East Project and Cost Management Division (Gulf) is looking to recruit a Planning Engineer to work for a key client for an ongoing water treatment works development in Qatar.    It is essential that the Planner has significant planning...

Oct 12, 2011

Multiple Float Path Ranking/Tie-breaker Calculations

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Hi All,I thought I understood pretty well how P6.2 calculated/ranked Multiple Float Paths using Total Float after reading this old POINT article http://primavera.zxlm.cn/kb/prim36502 (despite the article referring to P5) however I have run into an od...

Oct 12, 2011

Resource Types

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Hi All,My querry is related to the Resource Types in MSP. Is it technically correct to describe Manpower (carpenters, bar benders,plumbers,masons,etc) as Material types in MSP.As per me, any resource available after consumption should be defined as W...

Oct 12, 2011

Primavera P6: different amounts of table and histograms

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Hello, I do not speak English I use primavera P6. I have problems with the amounts "Store Period Performance". important in view of the columns in several months, these do not coincide with the histograms. Why? Starting in the histograms display Actu...

Oct 12, 2011

Planned Vs Actual

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Hello All,if you have Planned a project and after starting updating it,you find that you have entered a couple of activities that are not happening actually and Need to be deleted.What do you do??Will you have to make another schedule?? Because if yo...

Oct 12, 2011

Microplanner - reverse logic event (or activity)

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What is a reverse logic event (or activity) as per Microplanner? Please clarify if an event or an activity or both.Look on the following link as a reference: http://www.mosaicprojects.com.au/WhitePapers/WP1035_RD-CPM.pdfI am not sure about the need o...

Oct 12, 2011

A resources question

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Is it possible within P3 to create an activity which uses x amount of resources to complete ? In my industry of furniture building... 1 desk takes a fitter 15 minutes to complete. What I want to do is have an activity where P3 uses this information t...

Oct 13, 2011