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What is your practie to show temporary items in the schedule, such as setting or dismantling a crane, or formwork, or scaffolding etc.. I mean these are not part of the main project. So you can not assign them any resource or allocate time to them for proper earned value calculations right? But at the same time they are necessary for the main work to proceed. So do you track those separately or if you insert in the main schedule, how do you deal with this?
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Ahmet,
Can you complete the project without these activities?
If the answer to the above question is No, then I would show these in the schedule.
I would also allocate resource & duration to these activities.
Whilst they may not be part of the main project, if they are not completed then all the activities that require these temporary activities cannot happen & could end up affecting project delivery. Similarly if they are not resourced correctly, then they will not be in place for when they are required.
Steven
For a working level time schedule, I include all temp works task onto the network since it is part of scope, especially it is on critial path (means if temp work for critical activity execution).
To be included in manhour calculation or other calculations, all depend what should be included for that calculation purpose, so it is case depend.
if you awant to track direct labor manhours then also apply manhours to teh scaffolding removal
i understand you, about how you explain treating them as real activities but then you also say you do not assign any manhours to them, so this would not confuse all calculations? i mean you have an activity that has duration, but no manhours then. so in the schedule for example they wil show in critical path, but they will not have any manhours. will this not confuse everything?
incorrect these all require direct labor manhors. Setting a crane is a predecessor to the activity that is using the crane, dismantling a crane is a prdecessor to the work area where that crane was setting. formwork is part of form, rebar and pour you cant pour any concrete with out forming something for the concrete to go into. Scaffolding is a precedessor to the block work or wahtever you need the scaffolding for. I would treat them as real activities as far as earned value for the setting or dismantling crane I would not apply any manhours to this activity becasue there is not TRUE production factor. Setting formwork absoulty track with manhours for your EV and I would put the scaffolding into the same class as the crane.
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