Primavera P6 in Construction - A to Z

Learn to create the organizational breakdown structure in Primavera P6, assign the four department heads under the managing director, and use OBS charts and views for clear project leadership.

Explore how the enterprise project structure (EPS) in Primavera P6 organizes projects by divisions and departments, assigning responsible managers and clarifying project placement.

Create a new Primavera P6 IT building construction project under the Construction EPS, ID ITC, planned start October 22, 2018, assigned to Sunil Sharma under Balaji, using the Gantt chart.

Learn to create and organize a work breakdown structure in Primavera P6 for the ITC project, grouping activities into civil works, finishing, and MEP packages, and assign managers to packages.

Adds 13 construction activities in Primavera P6 across civil works, finishing, and MEP, and prepares to define relationships and scheduling for a site clearance to handover workflow.

Understand the four duration types in Primavera P6 and how resource assignment affects duration and units for each type.

Learn how to assign predecessor and successor relationships in Primavera P6, understand finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish links, and use lag to model sequencing.

Create and modify global, project, and resource calendars in Primavera P6; set a five-day week, ten-hour days, and holidays, and assign calendars to activities and resources.

Assign the it building calendar to all activities via the activities tab, and understand how a 6-day ten-hour calendar changes durations from 40 to 60 hours.

Create and organize resources in Primavera P6, including labor, manpower, plant and machinery, and materials, define roles as designations like planning manager, and apply calendars.

Learn how to assign resources to activities in Primavera P6 for a construction project, calculating budgeted total cost with labor, machinery, and materials, and tracking expenses.

Explore Primavera P6's resource usage profile to view budgeted units, total costs, and man hours across project resources, with filters to current projects and adjustable time scales.

Explore how to use the resource assignments window in Primavera P6 to analyze budgeted units, man hours, and machine hours, customize roles, collapse levels, and copy data to Excel.

Create and assign activity codes for subcontractors in Primavera P6, then use group by, sort, and filter by to organize and analyze activities by contractor.

Learn to create and apply resource codes in Primavera P6, assign subcontractor types to resources, and group or filter resources by type, calendar, or vendor for project insights.

Learn earned value management in Primavera P6, calculating planned value, earned value, and actual cost, and interpret CV, SV, CPI, SPI, EAC, BAC, and TCPI.

Add documents and work products to Primavera P6, including contracts, drawings, change orders, and variation claims, then assign them to WBS or activities with category, status, revision dates, and attachments.

Add expenses and indirect costs to project activities in Primavera P6 by assigning cost accounts, categories, and accrual types, then track budgeted, actual, remaining, and completion costs.

Create a new currency in Primavera P6 via admin currencies, then assign it in user preferences to apply across all activities, and configure symbol, exchange rate, decimals, and appearance.

Learn to manage admin categories in Primavera P6, including baselines, expenses, risk, WBS, documents, notebooks, and units of measurement. Add or customize categories using the admin tools and plus button.

Learn how to customize admin preferences in Primavera P6, including defaults for duration and calendars, ID length and limits, earned value formulas, reports, and industry site options.

Learn to generate and customize Primavera P6 reports, print previews, and print setup, using the reports wizard or the reports tab to create predefined and tailored reports for projects.

Import Primavera P6 data from formats like Microsoft Project XML and Excel into new or existing projects. Map header codes, set layout, and manage additions or deletions during import.

Apply the as-planned vs as-built delay analysis in Primavera P6 by cleaning the view, adding baseline and variance columns, updating actual dates, and comparing baseline and actual durations and costs.

Apply the impacted as planned technique in Primavera P6 to create delay fragments, assign baseline, model delays (dewatering, rework, productivity), and analyze schedule and cost impacts.

Perform collapsed as built in Primavera P6 by duplicating the project, updating durations to actuals, adjusting budgets and resources, assigning baseline, and calculating schedule and cost variances to reveal delays.

This lecture teaches time impact analysis in Primavera P6, including duplicating the main project, setting baselines, and defining client and contractor delays for live window analysis and dispute resolution.

Understand concurrent delay analysis by examining how overlapping delays alter the critical path and reallocate variance to the delay on the new critical path.