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Acceleration and Schedule Compression
The requirement for schedule compression can occur for many reasons. To reduce the duration requires that the work be accelerated. There are three forms of acceleration: actual, constructive, and forced. Each has unique conditions that are required for its use. Deciding on which activities to crash is part of Time‐Cost Trade‐off Analysis in which the lowest cost per day task is crashed first, then proceeding to more expensive tasks. The exception to this is when lower cost tasks offer more risk for failure. In this circumstance, higher cost tasks are selected. Making the case for acceleration requires careful and thorough calculations of savings and increased costs as well as any potential areas of high risk. Early delivery of a project is almost always desirable; however, discussion and approval of other parties, especially the owner, is essential to avoid an unprepared or unwilling owner.
Acceleration and Schedule Compression
The requirement for schedule compression can occur for many reasons. To reduce the duration requires that the work be accelerated. There are three forms of acceleration: actual, constructive, and forced. Each has unique conditions that are required for its use. Deciding on which activities to crash is part of Time‐Cost Trade‐off Analysis in which the lowest cost per day task is crashed first, then proceeding to more expensive tasks. The exception to this is when lower cost tasks offer more risk for failure. In this circumstance, higher cost tasks are selected. Making the case for acceleration requires careful and thorough calculations of savings and increased costs as well as any potential areas of high risk. Early delivery of a project is almost always desirable; however, discussion and approval of other parties, especially the owner, is essential to avoid an unprepared or unwilling owner.
Acceleration and Schedule Compression
Del Pico, Wayne J. (author)
Project Control ; 149-159
2013-10-04
11 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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