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Logic

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Hi,I am relatively new to planning. I am planning my first job, to build 4 large pipelines. The pipelines are over 500m in length each, and run parallel to each other. Each pipeline needs to grow at the same time i.e. not construct the first pipe, th...

Aug 18, 2014

Critical Activity Definition

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 Hi All,Somebody gave me a Construction Activity schedule but when I run it using "Total Float less than or equal to Zero (0)"  I saw no critical activity but when I changed to "Longest Path" then I saw my critical Activities in Red Colour.Can anyone...

Aug 18, 2014

Productivity during cold season

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Hi, I have not worked in a place where there cold season before. I need some advice from experienced planner or project manager . Would there be a significant drop in productivity during this period . I heard the lowest temperature here is ard -10 de...

Aug 19, 2014

Successful Portfolio Status Reporting

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There’s more to successful portfolio reporting than simply pulling together a massive spreadsheet and marking the cells as Red, Yellow or Green depending on project health. With the right data, you can get professional reports that aid organizational...

Aug 19, 2014

Critical mass vs criticial path

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The relationship between both subjects confuses me.When I search the internet for the term "critical mass", specifically within turnarounds, I find almost nothing except the definition and that you should observe this so it does not become a problem ...

Aug 20, 2014

Controlling discovery & extra work

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One of the characteristics of turnaround projects is the change of scope due to inspections during execution.My questions:What is in your experience the best way to deal with discovery and additional work ?How do you incorporate these daily found ext...

Aug 20, 2014

Importing Other Contractors schedules

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So I've been extremely frustrated as of late with importing schedules for numerous reasons. 1) we have the contractors resource the non-labor units to match their contractual $$ so we can do earned value off their physical % complete. With the non-la...

Aug 20, 2014

Hammock activities

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Dera All,  Can any one explain any examples of Hammock activities in Construction mainly Buildings,Infra etc. REgrads Sankar

Aug 21, 2014

Resources & Budgeted units

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Dear Friends, Am new for Primavera p6, can anyone please explain me about budgeted units (calulation) with example.  Thankyou

Aug 22, 2014

Primavera P6 Triangulation

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Inputting the tasks and the relationships among tasks in the scheduling software program can be a meticulous process. Primavera P6 has a helpful way of viewing these logical relationships to aid the insertion and verification of activity relationship...

Aug 22, 2014

Resource Lag & resource multiplication

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Hi, Every body How could i assign a resource with a certain lag for a particular activity ?Then is there a way to make multiplications in resource assignment ( ex, to assign 3 workers for an activity , h repeat assignment trible which i believe it's ...

Aug 25, 2014

Open Ended Milestones

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Hello,Can Monitoring Milestones like "Receive all Equipment", "Finish all MEP works" be kept open-ended if it does not have any single logical successor?if otherwise, lot of float is generated (calculated upto project end).How do you deal with this? ...

Aug 25, 2014

Open Ended Milestones

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Hello,Can Monitoring Milestones like "Receive all Equipment", "Finish all MEP works" be kept open-ended if it does not have any single logical successor?if otherwise, lot of float is generated (calculated upto project end).How do you deal with this? ...

Aug 25, 2014

Open Ended Milestones

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Hello,Can Monitoring Milestones like "Receive all Equipment", "Finish all MEP works" be kept open-ended if it does not have any single logical successor?if otherwise, lot of float is generated (calculated upto project end).How do you deal with this? ...

Aug 25, 2014