Construction Delay & Cost Analysis Through Primavera P6

Create a residential building construction project in Primavera P6 by selecting the construction business EP, assigning a calendar, and setting a unique project ID RBC.

Create the enterprise project structure and organizational breakdown structure in Primavera P6, using a minimal construction business EP and the RBC manager.

Create a Primavera P6 calendar for a residential building with a seven-day, eight-hour workweek and a lunch break from 12 to 1, including holidays as exceptions.

Create and organize the work breakdown structure (WBS) in Primavera P6 for a residential building project, including start, civil works, finishes, MVP works, and end milestones.

Learn how to add activities under each work breakdown structure in Primavera P6, assign IDs and durations, designate milestones, and prepare for defining predecessors and successors.

Assign predecessors and successors in Primavera P6 using FS, SS, and FF relationships with lag, then schedule to reveal the critical path on the Gantt chart.

Create labor, non-labor, and material resources in Primavera P6, assign them to activities, and set units, maximum and default units per day, prices, currency, units of measure, calendars, and roles.

Assign resources to activities in primavera p6 by applying labor, project manager, and materials like bricks and rcc, setting default and maximum units per time, calendars, and costs.

Analyze a residential building Gantt chart with 11 activities, compare manual scheduling to Primavera P6, identify two critical paths, and assess delay impact on schedule.

Explore a five-activity sample project to illustrate delay techniques in a construction project, comparing baseline and as-built schedules to reveal contractor and client delays on the critical path.

Compare the as planned baseline schedule with the as built actual in Primavera P6 to project delays and cost impact. Learn the step-by-step overlap method and its advantages and disadvantages.

Perform as planned vs as built delay analysis in Primavera P6 by copying the project, assigning a baseline, updating actual dates, scheduling, and reviewing duration and cost variances.

Explore the impacted as planned technique in Primavera P6, adding delay fragments to measure one-day and two-day delays and assess the impact on the baseline duration and the critical path.

Perform an impacted as planned delay analysis in Primavera P6 by adding delay fragments, linking relationships, coloring delays, and updating actuals to reveal schedule and cost variances.

Apply the collapsed as-built technique by deleting delay fragments from the as-built baseline in Primavera P6 to quantify each delay’s impact on completion and cost variances.

Duplicate the main residential project in Primavera P6 to create a collapsed as built schedule, then update durations and resources to reflect actuals and delays for cost and variance analysis.

Apply time impact analysis in Primavera P6 to live projects by dividing work into slots, updating progress, and measuring delays' schedule variance for arbitration and cost analysis.

Learn time impact analysis in Primavera P6 by duplicating the project, setting baselines, defining client and contractor delays, adding bars and progress spotlight, and evaluating schedule variance and cost impact.

Generate and print delay and cost analysis reports in Primavera P6, including activity details, baseline vs actual variances, a Gantt chart for extension of time, and impacted as planned techniques.

Learn to perform delay analysis in Primavera P6 with an assignment solution, assessing schedule and cost impacts on a hotel construction project through baseline and critical path analysis.

Explore concurrent delay analysis in Primavera P6 by examining overlapping color and drawing delays, and observe how variance shifts with the critical path when delays change in the project schedule.