Friday 14 October 2016

Knowing About The Different Roles Of A Construction Scheduler

By Ann Long


The CPM or the construction project management is the process of planning, coordinating, and controlling the project. Planning and scheduling are two of the most important parts in a construction management. These two can be a big help to the engineers in completing the projects on time and with the right budget. These factors aim on meeting the requirements of the clients for the production of projects which are financially and functionally viable.

The word construction does not only concern on the physical activities that are involving the materials, machinery, and men but also involves the overall scope of activities which is from the beginning up to the completion. When scheduling the project, the construction scheduler Fresno is very important. The roles that are fulfilled by the scheduler will change from time to time during the progress or cycle of a project.

The three roles or phases include performance control, commitment planning, and execution scheduling. First phase, the commitment planning or often called as feasibility planning. This phase involves the working of scheduler with the team to be able to plan for it. Strategies development and consensus gaining are done in this role. The schedulers are generally called as time management experts.

Second is the execution planning. Developing the schedule of implementation will be done here. The schedulers will be facilitating on the teams role assembling information and for sub contractors as well. Their role is to integrate and to test the information provided by their team for the completeness, logic, and common sense by asking questions. Schedulers are also responsible for the integrity of schedule data and scheduling tools.

Third phase, the performance control. In the execution of it, their role is being a support for optimizing change outcomes, advising their team for a better performance, and maintenance of schedules. Then status process and the update process are two important mechanisms for schedule maintenance. They should always be alert when changes are made for the avoidance of outcome influences.

Aside from these three phases, there are also other roles such as project and process facilitator, time budgeter, minimize risk, and cost saver. Being a facilitator involves creating and establishing projects to all other stages up to completion. They have to know all the technical details of all aspects.

Another responsibility of schedulers is developing and managing the time budgets. This is done to be able to work with the team and estimate overall project duration and components. The execution schedule will identify the critical paths and for ensuring that the flow of work is efficient and is cost effective.

At the start of projects, the schedulers will need to assist for ensuring the establishment of realistic and achievable end dates. They should also provide warnings whenever the work is already behind the schedule. Thus, they must inform the manager for any relocations for enabling the late works be caught up.

And lastly is being the cost saver. Generally, they are considered as key for costs optimization. If the projects can be completed within the given time, these are still viable and are still profitable. So their roles are to plan, conceive, set up, and develop a projects value.




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