From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling

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Schedule activity start and finish dates

Schedule activity start and finish dates

From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling

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Schedule activity start and finish dates

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- Our network model is done. All of our work activities are defined. Our network shows the relationships between all of these activities. Which ones have to finish before the next ones start, and we know how long each activity is going to take. We also know which items are on the critical path and which ones have some float. Now it's time to assign some dates to all of these activities. It's one thing to say that an activity needs to start on day 45 of the project, but what I really need to know is what date that activity starts. So far when we've talked about durations in terms of days, we're talking about working days. We assign durations in terms of working days to each activity. Now, you just need to define what a working day is and start plotting them out on the calendar. It is simple, but it's tedious, and it's easy to make a mistake when you do it by hand. Instead, with scheduling software, we follow the same procedures. Entering all the information that we've discussed into…

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