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CHAPTER 1 INTkODUCTION 1

 Bar Charts 2

Shortcomings of Bar Charts 3

The Sports Facility Project 7

Value of Bar Charts 7

 Other Scheduling Approaches 10

 Work Breakdown Structure 13

 Reasons for Planning and Scheduling in Construction 20

 Review Questions 21

CHAPTER 2 DEVELOPING A NETWOkK MODEL 22

 Steps in Building a Network Model 22

Defining Activities 23

Ordering Activities 25

Drawing the Network Diagram 28

Assigning Durations to Activities 31

Assigning Resources and Costs 32

Calculating Early and Late StaofFinish Times 32

Identify the Critical Path 32

Scheduling Activity qtarVFinish Times 33

 Final Comments 33

 Review Questions 33

CHAPTER 3 PkECEDENCE DIAGRAMS 35

 Precedence (Activity-on-Node) Networks 35

 Activity Relationships 36

Basics about Precedence Diagrams 45

 Calculations on a Precedence Network 49

 Independent Float and interfering Float 55

 Computations for Different Activity Relationships 58

 Final Comments 61

 Review Problems 61

CHAPTER 4 DETERMINING ACTIVITY DURATIONS 72

 Estimating 72

 Types of Estimates 73

Conceptual Estimates 73

Detailed Estimates 73

 Conducting a Detailed Estimate 73

 Estimating Durations 79

 Scheduling Issues 82

 Factors influencing Choice of Activity Schedules 83

Weather and the Schedule 84

Uncertainty in Duration Estimates 85

 Final Comments 88

 Review Problems 88

CHAPTER 5 TIME IN CONTRACT PROVISIONS 90

 Time is of the Essence 91

 Requirements for Project Coordination 91

 Cooperation 92

 Progress Schedule 92

 Ownership of Float 98

 Notice to Proceed 100

 Time of Completion 101

 Units of Time：Working Days or Calendar Days 102

 Liquidated Damages-Damages for Late Completion 105

 Weather 106

 Use of Completed Portions of the Work 106

 Substantial Completion 107

 Notice of Delays 108

 AVoidable Delays 108

 Unavoidable Delays 109

 Extension of Time (AVoidable Delays) 109

 Extension of Time (Unavoidable Delays) 109

 Submittals 111

 Progress Payments 112

 Payment for Materials 114

 Final Payment 114

 Suspension 114

 Termination by Contractor 115

 Final Comments 116

 Review Questions 116

CHAPTER 6 RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND RESOURCE LEVELING 117

 The Management of Resources 117

 When Resources Are Limited (Resource Allocation) 118

The Manual Solution for Resource Allocation 120

 The Brooks Method of Resource Allocation 129

 When Project Duration is Fixed (Resource Leveling) 136

 The Manual Solution for Resource Leveling 138

The Sports Facility Project 146

 Final Comments 147

 Review Problems 149

CHAPTER 7 MONEY AND NETWORK SCHEDULES 164

 Cash Flow 165

The Time Value of Money 165

Interest Rates 165

Contractor Cash Disbursements 166

Contract Provisions That Impact Cash Flow 168

Owner Policies and Practices That Impact Cash Flow 170

The Cash-Flow Analysis 170

The Sports Facility Project 172

The Present WOrth of Cash Flow 172

The Value of Cash-Flow Analysis 173

 Time-Cost Trade-Offs 176

Direct Costs 177

Indirect job Costs (job Overhead) 177

Overhead (Company Overhead) 177

Profit 177

Four Different Solutions for Each Network 181

Logically Reducing Project Duration 182

 Final Comments 193

 Review Problems 194

CHAPTER & pROjECT MONITORING AND CONTROL 199

 Construction Time 199

 Effective Scheduling 201

 Monitoring Project Status 202

 Difficulties in Assessing Progress 206

 Updating the Schedule 207

 Controlling the Project 208

The Sports Facility Project 210

 As-Built Schedules 211

 Final Comments 214

 Review Questions 214

CHAPTER 9 COMPUTER SCHEDULING 216

 Computer Scheduling Terms 218

 Scheduling Software 220

Primavera (P3@) 221

SureTrak Protect Manager 221

Microsoft Project 222

Web-Based Programs 222

 Creating a Schedule 222

 Updating a Schedule 226

 Presenting a Schedule 226

 Useful Software Features 228

Sorting and Filtering 7 78

Goning and Filtering 228

Global Editing 229

Cash-Flow Analysis 229

Resource Leveling 229

 Linking to Other Project Management Software 229

 Final Comments 231

 Review Questions 231

CHAPTER 10 EARNED VALUE：A MEANS FOR INTEGRATING COSTS AND SCHEDULE 232

 The Earned Value Concept 233

 Oifficulties in integrating Cost and Schedule Systems 238

 Final Comments 241

 Review Questions and Problems 242

CHAPTER 11THE IMPACT OF SCHEDULING DECISIONS ON PRODUCTIVITY 246

 Working Overtime 246

 Increasing the Workforce (Crowding) 249

 Increasing the Number of Starting Points 251

 Identifying the Causes of Delays 253

 Interruption of WOrk on Multiple Units (impact of Lost Learning) 254

 Learning Applied to individual Units 257

 Learning Applied to Cumulative AVerage Units 260

 What Happens When Work is interrupted7 262

 Other Sources of Lost Productivity 265

 Final Comments 266

 Review Problems 266

CHAPTEk 12 CPM IN DISPUTE kESOLUTION AND LITIGATION 270

 Going tO Court 270

 Types of Schedules 277

 Impact of Changes 278

 Impact of Delays 279

 Final Comments 280

 Review Questions 280

CHAPTER 13 SHORT-INTERVAL SCHEDULES 281

 Short-Interval Schedules in the Literature 283

 How Contractors Use Short-Interval Schedules 283

 Other Short-Interval Schedules 288

 Final Comments 296

 Review Questions 296

CHAPTER 14 LINEAR SCHEDULING 297

 What is Linear Scheduling7 300

 Example 1：Project to Replace a State Park Walkway 304

Production Rate Diagrams 304

Buffers 306

Generating the Linear Schedule 306

 Example 2：Project to Construct 500 Tract Housing Units 308

 Final Comments 312

 Review Questions 312

CHAPTER 15 PERT：PROGRAM EVALUATION AND REVIEW TECHNIQUE 313

 Uncertainty in Activity Duration Estimates 313

 Uncertainty in the Duration Estimates of an Activity Chain 318

 Uncertainty in the Duration Estimates of Projects 320

 Monte Carlo Simulation 321

 Final Comments 323

 Review Problems 323

CHAPTEk 16 ARROW DIAGRAMS 326

 Activity Relationships 327

 The i-j Notation of Activities 330

Dummies 330

 Performing Time Calculations with Arrow Diagrams 336

 Float Values 343

 Understanding Free Float and Total Float 349

 Computations for Different Activity Relationships 352

 Final Comments 354

 Review Problems 355

REFERENCES 365

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES 367

INDEX 371