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Automatics resource levelling Asta

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Dear Asta users,I don’t know whether you noticed, but I started an initiative to compare automatics resource levelling of different tools.http://www.planningplanet.com/forums/planning-scheduling-programming-discussion/574396/comparison-resource-level...

Apr 9, 2015

Prolongation costs in case of pacing delays

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Hi If a contractor decided himself to pace non affected work with ongong affected works, whether he would be eligible for prolongation costs? Or his delay in non affected areas woul be treated as concurrent delays that will not entitle him any prolon...

Apr 10, 2015

Characteristics for Turnaround projects

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Hi everybody,Maybe a good question to start with in this forum:What are the characteristics specific for Turnaroundprojects ? (what is fundamentally different compared to a "normal" construction project for example)Which things do you encounter which...

Apr 10, 2015

The way Spider calculates phase duration

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Dear all,I just noticd, that the way Spider calculates the duration of a phase is a bit strange for me, or at least this is not what I am used at MSP.  1) Is there a way to show phase duration as the [date of latest activity] - [date of earliest acti...

Apr 12, 2015

Provisional Sum and Delay in Project

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In the tender, if the client allows certain money amount as provisional sum such as $10,000,000. for soft landscaping. In this case, how should the main contractor make allowance of time in his programme for the soft landscaping work.I usually put a ...

Apr 12, 2015

Remainig Unit/Time

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Hi PlannersI am updating a project schedule with resources and after updating I found that the remaining units/time for completed activity is still fixed 8h/d. Is this right? even though the remaining units for that activity is zero.Best,Moutaz

Apr 13, 2015

Actual Cost for completed activity

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Dear Planners,An activity has OD 4= days, U/P= 90$/h and Units/Time = 8 h/d.The activity completed in 3 days; the followings data were extracted from the software:Budgeted Cost = $2,880, Actual Cost = $2,880, Remaining Cost = $0 and At Completion Cos...

Apr 13, 2015

Problem to connect Primavera

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Dear All,I am facing problem, when I login in primavera it show invalid user name or password.username and password is admin[[wysiwyg_imageupload::]][[wysiwyg_imageupload:2446:]] I have connect PMDB successfully but I am not able to login in primaver...

Apr 13, 2015

Target Programme

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Dear All,I need your expert advice on the following so plaese refine the below answers1) What are basic principles and logic behind to prepare Target Programme when the Contract Programme is already in place?Ans: Target Programme is the detailed prog...

Apr 14, 2015

Timescale in Microsoft Project 2013

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Hi, when I want to show the week numbers on a construction programme in MSP 2013, the "Week 1" always go back to the start of the earliest activity, however I want to show pre-start activities i.e lead in activities before "Week 1" starts and don't s...

Apr 14, 2015

What is the Most Important Metric of Critical Path Analysis?

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I just posted a new article: “What is the Most Important Metric of Critical Path Analysis?” The article starts by differentiating between CPM scheduling and critical path analysis, pointing out that the latter is relevant in optimizing the value of t...

Apr 14, 2015

Primavera not playing nice with high resolution screen

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I have a 4k screen and v8.2.  Has Oracle fixed the bugs for high resolution screens in later versions? I can't find anyone mentioning there are problems...  It's pretty serious - you can't just increase the font size as the icons all mash up as well.

Apr 14, 2015