2016 Construction Baseline CPM Scheduling Revealed, San Diego, CA

Harnessing the Power of the Schedule - The Key to a Successful Construction Project

The schedule is the heart and soul of a construction project. It impacts all parties – owners, prime contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, and others – on a daily basis. Whether the impact is positive or negative depends on the quality of the schedule, its realism, and how well each party understands the schedule and the scheduling process.

A well-grounded schedule should be developed cooperatively among all parties. This strategy promotes a smoothly executed project and an amicable resolution of delay claims. When scheduling principles are overlooked or misused, acrimony ensues – and all parties suffer.

Construction Baseline Scheduling Revealed is a day-long training course. It is designed to illuminate the scheduling process by focusing on the construction baseline or as-planned project schedule as the primary planning tool for the project. The review and approval of the baseline schedule is the Owner’s opportunity to ensure a quality baseline schedule that will serve as the benchmark for analysis of delay, trending and completion predictions. This course will address how to review Baseline CPM Schedules effectively and quickly, using the bar chart printout as well as the electronic file. The course will demonstrate how CMAA’s Standards of Practice support good Time Management processes. It will also examine Critical Path Method schedules and the means by which schedules can be analyzed and reviewed. All parties to a construction project need to be aware of how float sequestering, work sequencing, resource and date constraints, and other factors can affect the schedule. They must also know how to account for these circumstances in the preparation and evaluation of these baseline schedules.

For those unfamiliar with the nuances of the Critical Path Method and evaluation techniques, scheduling takes on the aura of a supernatural experience. The contents and structure of the baseline schedule set the benchmark for trending and completion prediction analysis as well as analysis of delays. Attend “Construction Baseline Scheduling Revealed” and put the power of scheduling to work for you.