From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling
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Assign durations, costs, and resources
From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling
Assign durations, costs, and resources
- At this point in the process, we've defined our items, we've ordered our items, and we've modeled the relationships. Now, we have to assign a duration to each activity. Of course, this is one of those magical mystery numbers that can make our schedule look like it works, or not. And, that's always the million dollar question on a construction project, which is, how long is this going to take? To answer this, you might do things like use historical data if you have that available. That could be your own company's historical data, or it could be from an industry guide like RS Means that gives typical production rates for lots of different types of work. If you're self performing the work, you may have accurate productivity rates for different activities that you can apply to the quantities on this project. Keep in mind though, that you may need to confer with your field personnel or your field supervisors. If you're sub-contracting the work out, you may want to talk to the…
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Creating a network model5m 29s
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Order activities from the WBS3m 35s
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Establish activity relationships4m 13s
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Assign durations, costs, and resources2m 15s
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Calculate early, late start, and finish times8m 59s
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Identify the critical path2m 11s
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Schedule activity start and finish dates1m 38s
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Letting the software do the calculations10m 34s
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