CPM Scheduling
The longest sequence of tasks which must be completed on time to deliver the project successfully.
Critical Path
A schedule that is kept on site and provided to subcontractors to push workflow. Typically, aggressive dates compared to contract schedule.
Production Schedule
Delays for which the contractor is entitled to a time extension, however, he is not entitled to any additional monetary compensation.
Notification process used in to request clarification about documents, drawings, specifications, or other project conditions.
RFI
A planning tool used to highlight key start or finish dates and activities in your construction schedule.
Milestone
Can be removed from the schedule to show accelerated dates for Site activities.
Weather Calendar
Any delay caused by unforeseeable events that are beyond the contractor’s control.
Excusable Delay
This information is submitted to the design team for approval of equipment, materials, etc. before they are fabricated and delivered to the project.
The number of days an activity can be delayed without impacting the critical path.
Float
A fixed CPM schedule that reflects the original scope of work for the project. Includes the contractors’ intended sequence for completing the original scope of work in the agreed period of performance.
Delays for which the contractor has responsibility, and is not entitled to neither a time extension nor any added compensation.
Inexcusable Delay
Required to be submitted to the owner in order to make a claim to extend the completion date or recover costs.
Delay Notice
Represents the starting point from which the entire project schedule is calculated for each update. As the project progresses, this moves forward in time.
Hint: It is depicted as a vertical line on the schedule chart.
Data Date
Schedule used to focus attention on what is planned to happen at some time in the future.
Look Ahead Schedule
A network of one or more activities that represents a change or impact that was not part of the planned project schedule?
Fragnet
What must be submitted to ownership if the actual Notice to Proceed or Construction Commencement changes from the approved Contract Baseline?
No Cost Change Order
A scheduled delay on a logic link whereby a successor activity will be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity
Lag
Onsite scheduling technique commonly used in trade partner coordination. It starts with a milestone and works backward to identify the necessary steps to achieve that goal.
A method used to determine the extent of the impact that a delay or change will have on the overall project timeline. Can be submitted to justify delay claim.
Time Impact Analysis (TIA)
Typically, where must the data calculating the amount of weather days included in the contract schedule be taken from?
NOAA (Weather Averages from local Airport)