205 STP PLANNING & SCHEDULING, UNIT 3

Description

This online course teaches students how to plan, develop, and manage construction project schedules. Topics include project planning, activity sequencing, critical path scheduling, bar charts, scheduling software, resource management, schedule updates, and applying schedules to change orders, payment schedules, and project acceleration.

This course will teach students how to use:

• The bar chart
• Precedence diagramming
• The arrow diagram
• The critical path
• Using networks
• Using the project schedule
• Maintaining the project schedule
• Applying the project schedule

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Become familiar with the process of project planning and the efficiencies derived from planning
• Know how to sequence the activities for logical project flow.
• Be able to prepare a bar chart schedule and use it properly
• Be able to define schedule activities and assign reasonable durations to the activities
• Be able to prepare a short procurement schedule
• Learn about schedule float and understand how float can be used to delay or lengthen activities and to smooth manpower requirements
• Be familiar computerized scheduling and understand both its limitations and advantages
• Learn how the schedule is used as documentation for changes and disputes
• Be able to apply constraints, sorts and filters to a computer generated schedule
• Understand what resources are and how they can be coordinated with the schedule
• Know how to use the schedule as a resource for crew and manpower assignments
• Be able to apply methods for monitoring, comparing and updating the project schedule
• Understand how to use the short-term schedule as a communication tool
• Learn about schedule acceleration methods and how to apply them