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Creating a network model

Creating a network model

From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling

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Creating a network model

- My next step in this ongoing planning and scheduling process is to develop what we call a network model. The idea here of network-based planning is that I want to develop a network that represents a time-oriented model of the project. How do I do that? Well, we already started. Step one was to define our activities and that's what we started in the work breakdown structure. The other steps look like this. Order those activities. Establish activity relationships and draw a network diagram. Assign durations to the activities, and then I might also assign resources and costs. Then, I need to calculate early and late start and finish times. I'll use those to compute float values and then identify the critical path. Then, I can schedule activities start and finish dates. I want to address step five, that I said was assign resources and costs. This is a step that is not always used in the construction scheduling process, but it can really be helpful on larger projects to manage everything…

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