Advanced Scheduling and Delay Analysis

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Advanced Scheduling and Delay Analysis

📅 Duration: 5 Days
👷 Target Audience: Senior Engineers, Project Managers, Planners, and Delay Analysts in Public Construction
🎯 Skill Level: Advanced

📌 Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
✔ Master advanced scheduling techniques for large-scale infrastructure projects.
✔ Apply Critical Path Method (CPM), PERT, and Lean scheduling methods.
✔ Use Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and TILOS for project scheduling and analysis.
✔ Identify delay causes, quantify impacts, and implement mitigation strategies.
✔ Conduct forensic delay analysis and dispute resolution based on FIDIC and NEC contracts.
✔ Develop schedule acceleration and recovery plans to prevent project delays.
✔ Use Earned Schedule Method (ESM) and Time Impact Analysis (TIA) for delay claims.

📌 Course Outline:

🟢 Day 1: Fundamentals of Construction Scheduling

🔹 Overview of scheduling techniques and project controls.
🔹 Critical Path Method (CPM) and Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT).
🔹 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and scheduling logic development.
🔹 Case Study: Scheduling best practices in a complex infrastructure project.

🟢 Day 2: Advanced Scheduling Techniques and Tools

🔹 Resource leveling and allocation strategies.
🔹 Lean construction scheduling and Last Planner System (LPS).
🔹 4D BIM integration with scheduling for real-time tracking.
🔹 Case Study: Optimization of schedules using Primavera P6 and TILOS.

🟢 Day 3: Delay Identification and Analysis Methods

🔹 Types of delays: Excusable, non-excusable, compensable, and concurrent delays.
🔹 Delay analysis methodologies:

  • As-Planned vs. As-Built Analysis
  • Impacted As-Planned
  • Time Impact Analysis (TIA)
  • Window Analysis
    🔹 Introduction to Earned Schedule Method (ESM).
    🔹 Case Study: Analyzing delays in a public infrastructure project.

🟢 Day 4: Forensic Delay Analysis and Dispute Resolution

🔹 FIDIC, NEC, and AACE standards for delay analysis.
🔹 Documentation and best practices in preparing delay claims.
🔹 Acceleration strategies: Fast-tracking and crashing schedules.
🔹 Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods for delay-related claims.
🔹 Case Study: Forensic delay analysis in a major construction dispute.

🟢 Day 5: Case Study & Real-World Application

🔹 Hands-on case study: Developing a comprehensive delay analysis report.
🔹 Group discussion: Challenges in public construction scheduling and mitigation strategies.
🔹 Presentation of delay analysis findings and recommendations.
🔹 Course assessment and feedback session.

🛠 Tools & Software Used:

✅ Primavera P6 – For advanced project scheduling and risk management.
✅ Microsoft Project – For scheduling and project timeline management.
✅ TILOS – For linear project scheduling (roads, railways, pipelines).
✅ Power BI / Tableau – For real-time scheduling performance visualization.
✅ BIM 360 / 4D BIM Tools – For schedule integration and monitoring.
✅ Deltek Acumen Fuse – For schedule optimization and forensic delay analysis.