A friend asked me about how to determine the critical path of their project in relation to contractual key dates.
The case is, they have contract to construct the superstructure and finished for a train depot. It is located in a large area and it is divided into sub-area. Each sub-area has a particular structure to be built like administration building, power facilities building, fire service building, maintenance workshop, etc. Each sub-area will be handed over to them once the foundations were completed by other contractor and it will not be at once.
Aside from the usual contract key dates of start and finish for the whole project, each sub-zone has a completion key date in which there is a penalty if they don't finish it on that date. He told me that they try to do each sub-area independently and resources is not issue.
In this case, how many critical path this project will have?
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