creative ways to keep "level of effort" (ie overhead) items that take a long time but not critical away from your critical paths. Ok, here is an example, you have a cost loaded schedule and you have an "overhead item" - one way keeping it from being the most critical is to filter it out = or show it for each month except for the last couple of months - which would be a couple months of float. Sometimes we still ahve submittals but the important ones are out, sometimes we like to have overhead as a task because it is treated different as a hammock. Sometimes things like "bird protection" show as critical because it is the last item procured due to relative un-importance bbut become critical due to the timeing. Yes, I know a hammock will not tick the "critical box" but does tick the "longest path" box which is a whole different arguement. the Definition of Critical Path has been changing & the AACEI definition is different than the PMI definition.