From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling
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Planning versus scheduling
From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling
Planning versus scheduling
- Before we jump in to any of these tasks, let's make sure we're all on the same page regarding some basic terminology. I hear the terms planning and scheduling used interchangeably all the time and this is wrong. They're not the same thing. Planning a construction project is very different from scheduling a construction project. Proper and accurate scheduling is never possible without good planning. Planning is really looking at a project to determine what needs to be done, how it's going to be done, and who is going to do it. Once that information is complete, you can use it to do the scheduling and that's really the process of figuring out when each of these tasks are going to be performed. Ideally, planning is done during the estimating process. That's the time to figure out how the project's going to be built. In other words, the plans and specs tell us what to build, but they usually don't tell us how to get there. That's what planning is, answering that question of how is this…
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