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Aspects of Scheduling
Complication in the world of construction continues to mount. As in society, we have more chaos. In essence, there are more people involved, different material, and countries of manufacture. No doubt, an average project has more obstacles to overcome than a decade ago.
To addresss this, we have seen the initiatives take hold concerning construction projects. No longer is the name of the game "to build the project”. These days "its read the specifications, know the plans and address the issues one at a time". In other words, we must balance our contracting risk with the potential for gain.
How do contractors dependably coordinate these demands and then communicate our direction in an effecient and effective manner. We do this through a CPM schedule. This picture is worth more than a thousand words.
To be clear, every project manager should focus on schedule management and financial management. These two areas done well or poorly, decide a project's fate. This article addresses scheduling.
Excellent scheduling process and techniques have value to the contractor. They graphically and numerically display a complicated process. From this data sets, an outsider can understand the process of building work. For the owner, it gives him or her the road map and the path taken in building a project. However, Construction schedule are a double-edged sword.
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Posted by Matt Stevens at March 2, 2006 1:54 AM