Controlling Contractor's Schedules

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Fair enough, thanks a lot for your help, I appreciate.

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Hi Ahmad,

Your 1st question, is this a common practice? I have not done any research to confirm this is best practice. But what i can say is, this is not about best practice (If it exists for this situation, fine). What matters more is what the client wants and what is used within the contarcting organisation.

 

Secondly, P6 allows you to link two projects, as one is a sub-project, unfortunately I cannot write how this can be done, as it would be time consuming

 

 

 

 

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 dear Anthony Obasi,

Thanks a lot for your reply, i appreciated it much.

according to what you say, i've to make 2 primavera projects, one for controlling contractor schedule, and the other for my consultant office services. did i put it correctly?

if so, i've 2 questions, if you may

1- is that a common practice?

2- does primavera allow me to link between the 2 projects, (i.e. FF relationship between consultant supervision services (P1) and contractor project handover milestone (P2)

 

Thanks again,

 

Ahmad Abdrabou

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Hi Ahmad,

I believe your key question is controlling a contractor schedule? In other to control the overall schedule it is appropariate to have all the schedule under one project, depending on how large the project is, your contractor schedule obviously will be a separate project - still sitting under the main project. Controlling the schedule requires keeping tab on the progress of the project and at the same time have a robust change control for the project.

Hope this helps.

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Well you need to define the scope into WBS clearly and then monitor them on the same project. Thanks

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Dear Arslan Shahid,

Thanks for your reply.

Let say that I want to organized my mind about Planning & Cost Control for construction projects as consultant.

Meaning, I need to monitor Expenses & Incomes regarding to consultancy services. Also to monitor contractor Progress & Invoices on the construction schedule, all for the same project.

If you need more explanation please ask.

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Dear Ahmad AbdRabou,

You want to make schedule or you want to control it ? Please explain your question more.