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Tasks followed in ELV first fix

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Dear Friends,Am new to construction industry, Currently need to provide Project schedule of tasks for ELV - BMS and GRMS.Need help & info on every task that needs to be scheduled for ELV Project of an Commercial building. i.e. Need every steps/ task ...

Apr 25, 2015

Contractor Delay

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Dear All,Please see the below scenario.In the baseline schedule, one of the MEP shop drawings was not included and that particular MEP work (construction activity was not in the Critical Path.Later in the Project, that particular MEP work got delayed...

Apr 26, 2015

Budgeted Non Labour units

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Hi,    "Budgeted Non lobor unit" are is being calculated as "Original duration * 8 h".How do I make Budgeted units same as Budgeted Non lobor unit?Regards,

Apr 27, 2015

Display Activity Steps in Asta from P6

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Hi colleagues,I have a project created in Primavera P6 with some activites with activity steps.  I opened this project in Asta Powerproject but I can't find a way how can I display the activity steps I created in P6.Please help me how could I show it...

Apr 27, 2015

Delay due to re-design

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Dear All,This delay happened in the mid of a project. After completion of a foundation there was a design change and additional floor to the building due the re-design and strengthening of foundation, some delay (due to abortive works @ 3months) happ...

Apr 28, 2015

Ten Consequences of NOT Regarding Projects as Investments!

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I just posted a new article “Ten Consequences of NOT Regarding Projects as Investment!” on my blog. You can find it here. My previous article, titled “The Benefits of Recognizing Projects as Investments”, was about the advantages that such an approac...

Apr 29, 2015

Export to Excel

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Hi All,I am in the process of resources/budgeted units export to excel, modify it and import back to P6.While during the export of budgted unit value to excel- you might have noticed a green colour small icon in each cell at the top left corner. Is i...

Apr 29, 2015

Remaining cost distribution

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Hi all,I have an updated schedule(p6 ver7) with the baseline assigned as "Project Baseline". I am using physical percentage and Fixed dur & units. In my schedule there is a problem with the rem cost calculation.For eg: the project budget is 10000. At...

Sep 18, 2014

Remaining cost distribution

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Hi all,I have an updated schedule(p6 ver7)& with the baseline assigned as "Project Baseline". I am using physical percentage and Fixed dur & units. In my schedule there is a problem with the rem cost distribution.For eg: the project budget is 10000. ...

Sep 18, 2014

Remaining cost distribution

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Hi all,I have an updated schedule(p6 ver7)& with the baseline assigned as "Project Baseline". I am using physical percentage and Fixed dur & units. In my schedule there is a problem with the rem cost distribution.For eg: the project budget is 10000. ...

Sep 18, 2014

P6 V7.0 Resource Profile Editing

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Looking for some expert help.  I'm creating some resource profiles for various projects.  My problem is that using the profile within P6, the cumulative cost curve is in the same color as the vertical bars (using either budgeted or remaining early or...

Sep 19, 2014

MS Project - macro to edit Project settings

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Quick question - is it possible to write a macro to edit "Project options" in Project 2010? Specifically I'm looking to write 2 macros to change the date format to Date+time and back to Date only.Useful if you quickly want to see exactly why an activ...

Sep 19, 2014

recommended reading material

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all you real pro Project controllers are going to hate this. ;-) I've been a scheduler at my refinery (get me ... MY refinery!) for the last 8 years. In this time i have been (rather loosely) overseeing the work of 2 other schedulers whilst schedulin...

Sep 19, 2014