Construction Scheduling

Catalog description

This course imparts a working knowledge of construction project scheduling techniques, especially the critical path method for network analysis, to enable determination of dates and durations of project activities. Includes exercises in network logic and constraints, forward and backward passes, critical path and float, cost crashing, resource leveling, and PERT. Concept of a work breakdown structure is integrated. Study begins with manual techniques but shifts to gain skill with common scheduling software.