The Construction Schedule Log:Charting the Project Path

摘要

Over the years, schedulers have focused attention on the individual project baseline and successive updates for the purpose of planning, progress reporting and determination of time extensions on construction projects. However, there is planning, organizational and analytical value in keeping a detailed log of schedule updates produced during the course of a project. This includes trend analysis, overview of the project timeline, schedule update highlights and a quick reference for project status. Like a ships log, the construction schedule log tracks the project's path and can aid the project team in charting the course to project completion. The schedule log also serves as a useful tool for educating attorneys and consultants who may be called in to perform forensic analyses. Additionally, this article introduces a dual-tracking schedule update method that uses the log as an essential analysis tool to isolate contractor schedule changes from activity performance achieved during the update period. These and other related tools are recommended for organizational, decision-making and forensic analysis by project cost engineers and schedulers. This article was first presented as PS.S05 at the 2010 AACE International Annual Meeting.