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F&D of an elevator? Average Fabrication & Delivery Time for a "New" elevator?

F&D of an elevator?  Average Fabrication & Delivery Time for a "New" elevator?  I googled it - it said 6 months from time you hire consultant to deliverly.  Lets say for public project - I have seen 6 months just for F&D - what would be a reasonable ...

F&D of an elevator? Average Fabrication & Delivery Time for a "New" elevator?

F&D of an elevator?  Average Fabrication & Delivery Time for a "New" elevator?  I googled it - it said 6 months from time you hire consultant to deliverly.  Lets say for public project - I have seen 6 months just for F&D - what would be a reasonable ...

means and methods - where do you draw the line?

If you are reviewing a schedule - where is the lilne as to not crossing into means and methods.  Even durations, if something is likely too short how do approach that without getting into Means and methods and the legal line you are crossing into.Mea...

Problem of Too many FS Relations

Project: Typical Residence House Project I am preparing a schedule of residence project. Construction contains 17 Blocks and each block has approx. 11 floors. So that too many activities and it s about to get 11.000 activites.  Even i don't want but ...

Problem of Too many FS Relations

Project: Typical Residence House Project   I am preparing a schedule of residence project. Construction contains 17 Blocks and each block has approx. 11 floors. So that too many activities and it s about to get 11.000 activites.    Even i don't want ...

Asta PowerProject Password protection

Somehow my PowerProject file has a password set.I DO know the password but I don't want to have one on it. How do I remove the password?I can't see any option on any of the task ribbons and nothing in the file properties dialogue...?

Project Managers' challenges with project planning.

I am curious what the biggest problems are that Project Managers face with regards to project planning. Would you give me some insight by answering a quick 3 question survey? https://forms.gle/iQDhFitBu9WBzMyK9

Convert the WBS of any Primavera project to Activity Codes in only one step.

 How to use the XER Magic Tool to convert the WBS of any Primavera project to Activity Codes in only one step. This video illustrates how you can do that:https://youtu.be/EUQYI4LyLmw To learn about the XER Magic Tool and download it, this the link:ht...

Resources not showing on histogram

Hi I've added resources to my level of effort bars (made more sense i thought, as you would have 1 gang complete x amount of activities), yet when I come to look at the histogram they don't appear? I never needed to do resource loading before, and th...

Report running issue

Hi all,probably more aimed at P6 administrators...I've been using P6 for monthly reporting for a long time now. Simple process of opening all relevant plans, then runnning a saved reort to output remaining early units by Activity ID. This month, all ...

How to remove gaps after data date for activities in progress in Primavera P6

Today I’m going to show you how to get rid of gaps that appear after the data date for activities that are in progress in Primavera P6.To demonstrate this problem, assuming we have the dummy schedule shown below, a simple schedule with all activities...

Global Activity Codes Export

Global Activity Codes are not getting exported in the xer file. I tried opening the exported xer files with Wordpad & also in another PC but the global activity codes are not present in both cases. How to export Global Activity Codes in the complete ...

Storage not found

Today I received a schedule file that had a couple of references to a storage not found.I found the first reference was in the previous version used for comparison, a not so obvious issue. I set resource leveling option to previous version and erased...

Material is spent on …

Material is spent on …Please look at the following scenario, total remaining supply is greater than total remaining consumption but it is impossible.  Dialog says material is spent on 04-02-21 but I believe it is a bit latter due to consumption on ac...

Free Webinars in February 2021

Here is a list of free project planning & scheduling webinars that will take place in Februaryhttps://www.plannersplace.com/blog/free-webinars-feb-21

“Keep in Touch”

I called an old colleague just to say “hello” and see how he was doing.  We have worked together at different companies over the past dozen years.  He is an inspirational finance executive and counted on me to implement his vision.   After salutation...

Scheduling Roads and Earthmoving Activities

Duration calculation when using 2 different Calendars in MS Project

Hi,I'm hoping somone can help me with the following problem I'm having with MS Project. I have a project with Construction Activities (Standard Calendar appropriate) and Shutdown Activities (operating over 24hrs, 7 days a week calendar).I can create ...

Forecast Manhours Calculation - Engineering Deliverable

Hello Everyone, Can anyone explain how to calcualte the Forecast MAnhours for a Engineering Document/Delvierables. Say for Example DeliverableBudgeted ManhoursPlanned %Actual %Earned ManhoursActual ManhoursForecasted Manhours ABCDEFTank Foundation Dr...