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Project Duration Extended

Dear Friends,I am working in MEP contractor company in dubai.We got a project in Fujaira which started on oct 2010.It is 18 months project which is to be completed by MAR 2012.Main contractor revised the baseline program & submitted to us. When i rev...

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Ecology and Environment, Inc. is a fully-integrated environmental consulting firm whose underlying philosophy is its worldwide commitment to supporting sustainable development through responsible environmental stewardship.  We are seeking a Senior En...

P6 Resourcing and Cost Account

Guys, Just like to know if there are good book/e-book/tutorial regarding "Resourcing" and "Cost Accounting" in P6? Resourcing chapter in Paul Harris' book is short and does not give a clear picture about resourcing (my own opinion) and Oracle-Primave...

Middle Eastern Project Calendars - Ramadan

Hi, I am setting up a P6 database in Dubai and am trying to forecast when Ramadan and other religious / public holidays will fall for the next 10 years.  I have a 5 year look ahead but can not source any further than this on the web.  I appreciate th...

Printing from P5

Hi,   Is there a quick way of printing all the plans under one enterpise node in P5, so that they come out seperately

How it update in retained logic

When update in M.S i find that  Expected (Start & Finish) Dates i for not started activities  before Data date cause it basis on actual date how make it working on Retained Logic bases?

Primavera P6 Release 8

I attended a seminar relating to Primavera P6 Release 8. My apologies if I have missed a post that has been started already on this subject,  but I'm very interested in the overall view of users relating to the direction that the software appears to ...

Displaying different cost rates columns in Ghantt view

May be dead easy fix but I can't seem to find the relevant columns for displaying different totals of work based upon different rates / cost types. I need to show effectively the values by WBS on the plan at say internal cost, selling cost etc. I hav...

FIDIC & The Red Book

Hi Planners, I know it’s childish but would some one explain me the difference between FIDIC “CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION” and the “RED BOOK” Cheers

PLAN & SCHEDULE

Come on Planners Let’s have a debate “Difference Detween a PLAN and a SCHEDULE; Plan A set of activities to achieve a targeted that may be a new construction, revamping, demolition, maintenance, production chain or a promotion scheme. Determine budge...

Clause 14 Program

Hi planners, Why the Program of Work (construction schedule) is called "Clause 14 Program" while this is not clause 14, its clause 8.3. Also Recovery program is known as clause 14.2 Cheers - Tanveer

Project Value Improving Practices

You may be interested to know that the Institution of Engineering and Technology have teamed up with the Association of Cost Engineers, tasked with delivering a suit of free events and on-line offerings to address value improving practices.  They are...

defaul in activity details

Hi Planners,In p6 under Activity Details, can anyone give me an idea of the default configuration on Activity Type, Duration type & Percent complete type? Thanks,Nanding

Converting Current Project as baseline

Hello Friends, I am facing a problem while assigning a baseline. I have a updated project schedule( in P6V7). Certain activities are completed, cetain in progress and others not started. Now I want to assign my current project as the baseline so that...

Free Float and LAG

Hi All, 1st am New hear but i am so happy coz i am a part of this planning planet 2nd What is the Difference between Free Float and Lag? Regards,

Primavera P6 v.7 is not showing Unit of Measure ?

Hi to all,Before i was using Primavera V6.2 than there was all Unit was available & right now i upgrade my Primavera from 6.2 to 6.7 here just these units are showing. I dont know, where all old units gone expect below mentioned units. Please if anyb...

Hotel Construction Schedule

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and I'm looking forward to being a contributing member. I just got assigned to create a project for a small hotel and would your help. Can anyone send me a sample schedule they did so I can compare mine? If so send to : ...

Sorting and Filtering Capability

To the PP Administrator, kindly include the filtering capabilty on the forum section, this help us easier to manage seaches for specific topic. thanks

Actual % Complete

Dear all, How can I introduce actual % complete to MS Project to get Duration delay? Regards