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Abortive Works

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It is very common that discrepancies are found between drawings.However, if discrepancies are not found and the contractor built something according to either one of the drawing.After that  the contractor found the discrepancies and were told that th...

Jul 18, 2011

Top Down Estimating in P6-R8.1

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Hi, I'm using Primavera P6 R.8.1 but I am not finding the TOP DOWN ESTIMATE. Does anyone know where is the Top Down Estimation in this Primavera version. Thanks, Gabriel[[wysiwyg_imageupload:585:]]  

Jul 19, 2011

Professional Planning Engineers Opinion Required

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Dear All,I need Expert Opinion from those who have been working as Planning Engineers,Planning Managers.I am Quite Young and have only 2 years of experience in Planning in Primavera P6.Today I received an Email from the Owner of the Company , that he...

Jul 19, 2011

Planning Courses - Scheduling and Project Control, Resource Control

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Do any of you know of any planning courses which cover all aspects of planning? I am a planner for a large utility company, i have been planning now for almost a year and i want to make sure that the processess i have put in place are correct. I have...

Jul 19, 2011

Finish dates move along with Data Date

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Hi all,I'm sure this is a basic problem, but I'm going nuts here. I've got a basic level 1 schedule. No logic or anything, just start constraints and durations.A couple of activities have already started (and the Started check box has been checked ac...

Jul 19, 2011

MSP 2010 wont let me baseline project

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Hi All,MSP 2010 will not let me set the entire project as a baseline. Ive tried it by selecting the entire project check box as well as highlighting all tasks then checking 'selected tasks'. It will let me assign a baseline if I select only a few tas...

Jul 19, 2011

Planning activities in "Hours" with MSP

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Greetings, I was using P6 on my previous Project. I have a a 4 day shutdown plan to develope and I need to plan the start and finish in hours for the same. I just cant find aany option with MSP 2007, like Primavera P6 where i can enter the planned st...

Jul 19, 2011

Finish Milestone

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Hi Gentlemen,I needed opinion of professional planners.The situation is that i am getting a couple of activities that are placed in my schedule so that it is not possible to assign them any successor.As a result the end is open end.Is it Right to ass...

Jun 26, 2011

P3 Cost graphics

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Dear planners,When I make the update of the schedule, I get only the forecast values!How can I show all values including forecast and as built? Thank you in advance for your help.

Jun 26, 2011

Resource Assignment using Export/Import

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Hi everyone! Need some help pls..I have loaded my resources (Labor and NonLabor) in the schedule using the export/import functions. The odd is after the importing of resources, the Resource Type for all the NonLabor resources I have imported were cha...

Jun 27, 2011

Planned curve in Resource usage profile

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I am using P6 Ver 7.0. Can any body tell me how to bring planned value histogram in resource uage profile.I able to get budgeted Histogram but not planned histogram. Thanks.

Jun 27, 2011

P6.7 Global Layouts in P6 Web

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Hi, Can Global Layouts created in P6.7 can be opened from P6 Web, once the projects are made available in the P6 Web environment? Thanks,   CRN

Jun 27, 2011

Adding Same Resource more than once

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Hihow are you guys.I am facing one problem.I want to assign same resource more than once in one activity.e.g there are 20 Labors in one activity ( 100 dollar / day/ labor) . how to assign this 20 Labor to single activity.Kindly help.Planning_guy

Jun 28, 2011

Site Planner V Planner within a Consultancy

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I'd be interested to hear from peoples opinions and hopfully experiences between working in a big consultancy as a planner and working as a site planner? Let me know what you think and which one you'd choose.   Thanks,   Chris

Jun 28, 2011

Editing User Rights in Asta PowerProject Enterprise

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Hi All, I am looking for some help, i have been using Asta for around 18 Months and have recently been given the task of improving the way we use Power Project, it is on Enterprise. I have reduced the amount of user views we had in the sytem (Approx....

Jun 28, 2011

Role in Construction Law / Dispute Resolution

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I am interested to direct my career into the area of Construction Law / Dispute Resolution over the coming years, and am wondering what experience / background I would need.   Is it as clear cut as requiring a Construction Law degree or are their any...

Jun 28, 2011

RIB

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Dear allOur company is going to introduce new software RIB .How useful is this software ?is there any drawbacks for this software? & how it different from CCS CANDY .i am familiar with CCS CANDY.I am from Contracts department RegardsSankar

Jun 28, 2011