Planning engineer
The schedule, the critical path and weekly updates.
- 1🗓️EDC drafts the schedule
- 2🧊The schedule on the model in 4D
- 3📈The S-curve
- 4🔴The late activities
- 08:00
Pulls the draft schedule from the model and edits it
- 11:00
Imports the contractor's update from P6
- 14:00
Takes progress from the daily site reports
- 16:00
Plays the 4D on the model in the weekly meeting
The planning engineer builds the project schedule: breaks the work into activities, sets each one's duration and order, and finds the critical path. Each week they update progress and say whether the project is behind or ahead.
Their schedule is the basis of any extension-of-time or cost claim, so it must be realistic and up to date. They are the one who tells management: at this pace, here is when we finish.
In EDC the platform drafts the schedule for them from the model: activities, links, crews and plant, and the EDC Assistant reviews it and suggests changes; or they import it from Primavera P6 or MS Project. Each activity is tied to its elements in 4D, progress comes from the site reports, and the S-curve updates on its own.
The 4D shows the building order on the model day by day, so anyone understands the schedule without reading a Gantt chart. Every version of the schedule is kept, so they can compare the baseline with the update and prove what caused a delay.
- ✓Draft the schedule from the model, or import P6
- ✓Link activities to the model in 4D
- ✓Update progress from site reports
- ★An honest S-curve every week
- ★Delays seen before they hit the end date
- ★No chasing the site for numbers