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Liquidity Damage (LD)

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Hi Everyone,I would like to learn about LD. In one of the contract we have it is written as,Liquidity Damage will start after 15th Sep if the project is not complete . " The production would be only started upon completion of the project" which gives...

Oct 4, 2015

Importing actual progress in a schedule

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Dear All,Due to a variation order, the approved baseline programme has been revised with the incorporation of the variation item and few changes in the logic as mitigation.In the last updated programme (without variation), out of 11,000 activities ne...

Oct 6, 2015

FEED - Front End Design

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Hello Everyone,I have been on the EPC projects from Contractors side till now for O & G company. I would like to learn when a engineering company is awarded FEED Study (Basis of Design & Statement of requirement is given by the Client) who from the e...

Oct 7, 2015

Revised Baseline and Revised S-Curve

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Dear All,Kindly share your input/thoughts for the following situation.After the baseline programme is approved.At the middle of the project a variation was issued by the Client and the Contractor issued an EOT notification for the delay in permit for...

Oct 7, 2015

CPM and PDM methods

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Hello to everyone, i'm running a dissertation about project management and i would like to ask about those two methos.I want to know if we run the same project with CPM and then with MPM do i expect always the same resuls? Are there any articles abou...

Oct 7, 2015

Technical query about Pertmaster and Low Memory

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As the subject indicates, I have encountered an issue whereby Pertmaster "runs out of memory" and will crash.  There is no loss of data, but after several attempts to continue is has slowed to a crawl. Does anyone, or has anyone encountered this issu...

Oct 8, 2015

Unforeseen Obstruction at Site

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Hi All,1. In a sewergae line laying project, in a particular path there was enough float, say 60 days in the baseline programme.2. The Contractor started the works 30 days later than the plan date. At the time of investigation he found an underground...

Oct 8, 2015

Problem to make Recovery Plan as a new Baseline

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Hi Guys,I prepare a recovery plan from last updated program, i was monitoring the progress based on total Budgeted Cost and all activities were Phisical % type. My project was in delay due to our mistake so i adjust the remaining duration by increasi...

Oct 10, 2015

Future Bucket Planning Information - Export / Import using excel

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Hi All,I am currently working on a schedule that requires us to do a monthly future bucket planning. We are looking at about 50 distinct resources and would like to find out what is the best way to do the loading, apart from manually keying the hours...

Oct 12, 2015

Is Earned Value Going Away?

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There has been a lot of talk recently about the decision by DCMA to raise the threshold for contracts requiring compliance reviews from $50 Million to $100 Million. On face value this might seem like the government is taking its foot off of the EVM p...

Oct 12, 2015

New Tasks With '0' Float Throughout the Schedule

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I am trying to create a test schedule in MS Project 2010.  The problem is that with every new task that I create, there is no float associated with the tasks being entered.  I have tried the following:1. Moved the Project Start date out six months or...

Oct 12, 2015

Spanish Speaking Planners

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Hi All Pinoy PlannersI have a contact who is seaking two Spanish speaking planners for a long term contract in the Carribean.Permantent or contract.Send me a private message with your email and I will put you in touch.Best regardsMike Testro

Oct 13, 2015

REPORT ENGINEER

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Hi all,Please I am invited for an interview as a reporting engineer in BOQ department, can someone tell me expected interview questionsThanks

Oct 13, 2015

Filtering Formula Columns

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Hi Guys,I have created a formula column called ductwork, which simply outputs a 1 if the task name contains the word ductwork and 0 if not. My formula works great, however I would now like to create a filter to hide all 0's in a column, I have tried ...

Oct 14, 2015

EOT Claim

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Hi,Due to a client delay causing event, we modified one of the schedule calendars and addedd a night sheeft into it as a sort of mitigation to avoid slippage on practical completion date. ( without any direct instruction from our client) By removing ...

Oct 15, 2015

Update resources with lag

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Hello,I have an issue when I update my resources scheduled for resources with an Original lag. If my resource has a 11days lag (original lag column) and if my activity has only started since 5 days then my Actual Units should be 0 and I should have n...

Oct 15, 2015

S curves

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I am trying to get the S curve from EPC without the loaded resources or the expenses . I have the % weightages of the different activities. How can I complete this assignment?

Oct 15, 2015