Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling

Overview

• Instructor: Jim Rogers
• Skill level: Intermediate
• Duration: 1h 30m
• Released on: January 5, 2018
• Users Liked: 12,993

Course Details

• Purpose of Schedules:

  • Management tools for informed decision-making on construction sites.
  • Differentiate between planning and scheduling.

• Planning:

  • Involves logic and sequence of project execution.
  • Utilizes construction documents to define end product and steps required.

• Scheduling:

  • Integrates plan with calendar
  • Assigns time and resources to tasks.

• Transformation from Plan to Schedule:

  • Key steps outlined for developing a proper plan.
  • Examples of successes and failures shared by instructor.
  • Discusses future of planning and scheduling.
  • Incorporates Lean principles and CPM (Critical Path Method).

Learning Outcomes

• Gain skills in construction project management.
• Earn a sharable certificate.
  • Add to LinkedIn profile.
  • Download as PDF or share as an image.

Instructor Profile

• Name: Jim Rogers
• Specialty: Teaching construction professionals to integrate safety, quality, and productivity.
• Experience: Over 2 million online learners.

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Course Contents

Introduction

• Welcome and introduction
• What you need to know
• Exercise files

Planning and Scheduling Fundamentals

• History and impact
• Types of schedules
• Planning vs. scheduling

Proper Planning

• How is the work done?
• Who does the work?
• Work breakdown structure
• Work breakdown structure illustrated

Use the Plan to Develop a Schedule

• Creating a network model
• Order activities from WBS
• Establish activity relationships
• Assign durations, costs, resources
• Calculate start and finish times
• Identify the critical path
• Schedule start and finish dates
• Software for calculations

Maintaining the Schedule

• Check and update the schedule
• Time in contract provisions
• Scheduling's impact on productivity

Conclusion

• Future of planning and scheduling
• Integrating Lean principles with CPM
• Better understanding of planning and scheduling

Course Benefits

• Practice while you learn with 1 exercise file.
• Test your knowledge with 5 quizzes.
• Mobile access on tablets and phones.
• Earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

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• Construction Management Foundations
• Construction Management: Concrete Construction
• Construction Management: Reading Drawings and Specifications

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