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Maximum duration per unit time

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What would be maximum unit per time (h/d) if my day time resource is 10 helpers and night time resource is 8 helpers, and calender is 18hrs per day ? Thanks in Advance

Oct 22, 2018

Schedule vs Engineering process

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Hi all, I need your thought regarding a situation in a project.Does a project schedule that has been accepted by a client which shows a contractor having finished a design goes ahead and places an order for the designed asset, overrides the normal en...

Oct 22, 2018

Conversion of Manhours into Durations

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Dear Sirs/fellows, I have standard manhours per unit of electrical activities. such as installation of MCC panel, Cabling works having values in decimals and/or small manhours. means per meter cabling manhours. 1 panel installation manhours. so how c...

Oct 22, 2018

Host, Key, Alias, what? Can't even get started using Primavera 6!

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So I've been taking a construction project scheduling with Primavera 6 class, and so far all my practice has been in class. Our teacher told us that we would be able to download Primavera 6 for free and you can keep and use it for free (Oracle's fee ...

Oct 22, 2018

Exporting Historgram to Excel

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Hello all, could someone please help me get my histograms exported to an excel document? I am confused as to how this process works exactly. I've created a monthly costs and project s curve histograms. I need these to be exported to an excel document...

Oct 23, 2018

Conversion of Manhours into Durations

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Dear Sirs / Fellows,Please let me know that how Manhours will be transformed into duration of activities? I have set of activities having manhours per unit basis. e.g. For Example:Armoured Cable #14, 2 Conductor, Solid Copper Unit of Time: "Hours";Un...

Oct 23, 2018

Creating Phasing Plans......

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Hi,I am a planning engineer working on Highways projects. At tender stage I create phasing diagrams to accompany the programme. I was just wondering what software people use to create their phasing plans. I have previously just used Paint or Word to ...

Oct 23, 2018

Collaborative Planning

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Hi,I am looking to improve my skills as a collaborative planning facilatator.Can anyone recommend any literature / training / advice to help me with this? Kind regards,Andrew 

Oct 23, 2018

P6 R83 Installation

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Hi guys, I am having difficulties installing P6 on my machine.I seem to be doing everything as per the instructions from the internet and have enough computing space on my laptop.After running everything I get an error saying ''P6 Install was interru...

Oct 23, 2018

Levelling and original duration changes

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I am doing levelling, in P6. whenever I am delaying any activity in "Resource usage spreadsheet" by shifting the particular overallocated resource to next possible day my original duration for activity changes drastically. This duration is logically ...

Oct 25, 2018

Productivity rates of manpower

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Hello Everybody,I am new here in this platform and i need to ask some questions and i would appreciate if you answer my questions. I have choosen my career as a planning engineer in building side. I have done BSc Civil Engineering and then Masters in...

Oct 25, 2018

As-built Time-Chainage Chart

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Dear all,I need urgent help to draft a chart demonstrating type of work (with diferrent color) over the chainage of the road (x axis), and time (y axis). Basis data is construction log that contains in columns those information: Date, from chainage, ...

Oct 25, 2018

Turnaround schedule levels

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In various literature I see two different kind of schedule levels. Level 0-4 or Level 1-5.Which definition is commonly used ?What would be the appropriate levels for a turnaround schedule and could someone give me some specific examples for a turnaro...

Oct 26, 2018

Primavera P6 R16.2 EAccessViolation SQLServer

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HelloI´m installed Primavera P6 16.2 with SQLServer 2012. When I try to open the BD in SQLite its works ok, but when I try to open the BD created througth the intaller dbsetup.bat, I received the error Exception EAccessviolation in module PM.exe.Plea...

Oct 26, 2018

High Rise Building construction activities

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Hello Everyone,I need Primavera P6 Xer files of complete buidling construction project activities, including all relationships and resources loaded.Please send me the whole project which includes all activities from start to end ,even if somebody has...

Oct 29, 2018

BAK Files

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Everytime I save asta PP programme copy of BAK file created on the same folder. How do I stop this? Any help appreciated

Oct 29, 2018

Adding a weighted % Complete

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Is it possible to create a weighted % complete column in MSP?I have to put a weighted % against different disciplines within the schedule however I'm not really sure where to start. So I have for example:Engineering 10%Procurement 10%Structural 25% A...

Oct 29, 2018

Project planning requirements

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Dear All,Please tell me about the requirements of doing planning of a construction projects. I mean if we have to do planning of a construction project (lets say Hospital project) what documents or input we need at this stage to start planning from s...

Oct 31, 2018

TIME RISK ALLOWANCE

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Hi I am newbie to planning. There is a column added for TIME RISK ALLOWANCE in my NEC program. What is TRA? How do I add this column ? Any help appreciated

Oct 31, 2018