Trade Coordination and Short-Interval Planning
Turning the master schedule into reliable field work on a building: schedule levels and the superintendent's planning cycle, trade sequencing and dependency types, handoffs, inspections and area turnover, zones, takt plans and trade stacking on repetitive floors, six-week look-aheads, constraint logs and make-ready, workface planning and advanced work packaging, coordination meetings, percent plan complete and variance reasons, MEP coordination and clash detection, crew sizing, trade density and learning curves, and recovering a late schedule under the AIA A201 general conditions, following one wood-frame mid-rise through its interiors.
CON-335 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons · 4 h 44 min
Offered by HSM University · Construction Management
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain the levels of schedule from milestones to daily plans and run a planning cycle that keeps the field plans consistent with the master schedule.
- Sequence the trades on a mid-rise building, distinguishing physical, regulatory, quality, resource and preferential dependencies and identifying where the sequence can safely change.
- Define handoff conditions, run handoff walks, judge readiness by blockers and manage inspections as hold points to avoid lost days.
- Divide repetitive floors into zones, set a takt time, balance wagons into a trade train and detect and prevent trade stacking.
- Build and maintain a six-week look-ahead with tapering detail, generated where possible from the takt plan and compared weekly with master schedule milestones.
- Run a constraint log with categories, owners, need dates and promise dates, measure the constraint removal rate and screen tasks before committing them.
- Apply workface planning and advanced work packaging, including the path of construction and installation work packages sized to a crew-week.
- Organize daily huddles, weekly coordination and work plan meetings and other regular meetings into a weekly rhythm, and use percent plan complete and variance reasons to improve.
- Coordinate mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems through space allocation, clash detection, space budgets and zone sign-off linked to the look-ahead.
- Size crews within the space available, allow for learning on repetitive work and measure productivity through output rates and work sampling.
- Diagnose a late schedule, cost recovery options per critical-path day saved, choose and manage a recovery plan, and explain the contractual position under US standard contracts.
- Prepare, risk-test, report and present a six-week look-ahead and coordination plan for the final stage of a building project, including occupied areas.
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 44 min total · final exam
- 1 From the master schedule to the field 26 min · quiz
- 2 Trade sequencing for a mid-rise building 24 min · quiz
- 3 Handoffs, inspections and area turnover 25 min · quiz
- 4 Flow on repetitive floors: zones, trade trains and stacking 24 min · quiz
- 5 Look-ahead schedules in practice 22 min · quiz
- 6 Constraint logs and making work ready 23 min · quiz
- 7 Workface planning and advanced work packaging 22 min · quiz
- 8 Coordination meetings and the weekly planning rhythm 23 min · quiz
- 9 MEP coordination and installation planning 23 min · quiz
- 10 Productivity, crew sizing and trade density 23 min · quiz
- 11 Recovering a late schedule 24 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: a six-week look-ahead and recovery plan 25 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Turning the master schedule into reliable field work on a building: schedule levels and the superintendent's planning cycle, trade sequencing and dependency types, handoffs, inspections and area turnover, zones, takt plans and trade stacking on repetitive floors, six-week look-aheads, constraint logs and make-ready, workface planning and advanced work packaging, coordination meetings, percent plan complete and variance reasons, MEP coordination and clash detection, crew sizing, trade density and learning curves, and recovering a late schedule under the AIA A201 general conditions, following one wood-frame mid-rise through its interiors.
Part of the Construction Management stream, typically taken in year 3.