CONSTRUCTION PLANNING & COST CONTROL WITH PRIMAVERA P6 -2025

Explore the Primavera P6 home screen, featuring the enterprise project structure, a project list with IDs, names, activities, and priority, plus a Gantt chart overview.

Create and customize your project OBS in Primavera P6 to define the organizational chart and assign roles. Upload the structure with project manager, site chief, electrical engineer, and mechanical engineer.

Create an enterprise project structure (eps) to track projects by company areas. Place construction and industrial under company A and assign a responsible manager to the ABC project.

Learn to create a Primavera P6 project by selecting an EPS, entering a unique project id and name, and opening the blank project to add WBS and activities.

Create and customize a calendar in Primavera P6, defining global, resource, and project calendars, set working hours and holidays, and assign the calendar to projects such as ABC Residences.

Create and manage a project WBS by adding main items such as excavation, rough construction, finishing works, electrical works, mechanical works, and landscaping, then organize floors.

Create activities in Primavera P6, link them with four relationship types, apply lag or dummy activities to manage timing, schedule the plan, and copy activities for repetitions.

Learn to customize Primavera P6 with columns and layouts to view, analyze, and present project data clearly. Save and apply layouts to compare baselines, manage resources, and tailor screen settings.

Learn to create and apply filters in Primavera P6 to isolate formwork activities by name and status, using default and custom filters with all or any logic, and save layouts.

Learn to add labor, non-labor, and material resources in Primavera, create them in the resource dictionary, assign to activities, and monitor costs, workloads, and project performance.

Explore how expenses represent indirect project costs like travel permits and subcontractor fees, not tied to a resource assignment, and learn to add and track them in Primavera P6.

Discover how to assign a baseline in Primavera to capture a snapshot of your project plan and compare planned versus actual progress.

Explore the three percent complete types in Primavera P6 — duration, physical, and units — and learn when to apply each to enter progress and influence the schedule.

Explore duration percent complete type in Primavera P6, using baseline dates and remaining duration to auto-update progress, monitor deviations with duration percent of original, and note suitability for schedule-based tracking.

Calculate physical percent complete in Primavera P6 by tracking actual work versus duration, switching from duration to physical, entering finished quantities, and using steps with weights to estimate progress.

Use units percent complete to track progress by labor units, compare actual versus budgeted units, and note that materials use physical percent complete or manual progress updates.

Compare baseline budgets with current project costs in Primavera, track overruns and schedule impacts, and view monthly and cumulative costs with the activity usage spreadsheet and profile.

Identify and apply Primavera constraints to control start and finish dates, explore all nine constraint types, and see how constraints can alter the critical path and project schedule.

Explore the critical path method (CPM) in Primavera, identifying the critical path, total float, and free float, and their impact on project duration and how Primavera highlights critical activities.

Learn how activity codes in Primavera organize, filter, and report schedules by defining codes under enterprise, applying global, EPS, and project types, and grouping by subcontractor with reusable layouts.

Link work packages and documents to specific Primavera activities using WPS and Docs, then create, categorize, and assign reinforcement plans to strengthen schedule documentation.

Track project progress in Primavera using tracking to compare actual total costs with the original plan, view EPS and WBS costs and units, and explore timescale and S-curve insights.

Create and customize user-defined fields in Primavera to store additional data across activities, projects, WBS elements, resources, and expenses, then configure columns, layouts, and filters for targeted tracking and reporting.

Use Primavera's global change tool to define rule-based updates on activities, resources, costs and durations based on logical conditions, and apply flags to critical tasks.

Explore earned value management in Primavera P6, using SPI and CPI to compare budgeted costs with actual costs and assess schedule performance.

Navigate Primavera reports to summarize, analyze, and export project data; review activity costs, variances, and progress, then create a 7 days look ahead report for upcoming starts.

Master print preview in primavera p6 to see schedules on paper, adjust page setup, margins, headers, footers, and logos, and set orientation, scaling, and timescales for professional reports.

import activities from Excel into Primovera, assign resources, and transfer budgets using Excel templates to streamline large scale planning.