can you share the link for the answer

i can think of two actual methods (not practicle at all) but i am going with the flow here:

1- the curing time to be added to the concreting activity- the problem here is that it wouldn’t represent the actual 世界杯时间比赛时间 moving from one foundation to the other. they would pour concrete then move on to the next foundation not waiting for it to finish curing. plus, you can’t have a fs relationship (preferred relationship) nor can you do it without a lag (as it would be a ss relationship plus day/hr lag).

2- add in activity called curing time.. this will overload a schedule with useless activities, a schedule should be manageable. populating a schedule with curing time constantly is not a wise idea. ive worked on a projects where we were solely assigned to do over 3000 foundations in an oil and gas project. imagine if we had to add curing time as an activity. the schedule just becomes over populated with no added value.

you may argue that pouring concrete activity description is bad scheduling practice because the description should be replaced. however, in every organisation that i’ve provided planning support to has a breakdown to show pouring concrete as a resource and with that we are able to provide real estimates to the concrete batch the qty we will need on given days. thus, the use of small lags are inevitable..

so in short, lags are not replacements for activities but in cases of small lags like curing there isn’t a better representation. i am very keen to see how you would represent curing time.

with all schedules rationale and logic should be applied to represent a true picture of how the work is to be executed. over populating a schedule makes the control schedule uncontrollable and less productive.

thanks for these.
i’m looking forward to possible right answers to the questions.

my manager used to ask:

“how do you a deviated or deviating schedule?”

would love to see answers to those.thanks

cheers,
gajanan

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shiraz ahmed

ferds, yes that is a good question. and you might ask “how can you assess its risks?” as well.

perhaps we’ll do this in a future post.