Q. Scheduling 

Q. Scheduling software is a revolutionary construction scheduling software that has evolved in response to the widely recognized failure of the majority of construction contractors to fully use CPM or PERT, and adopt it as a basic construction scheduling technique, which suggested that there is some fundamental failure in the Critical Path Method and PERT network technique. This unwillingness flies in the face of a great deal of publicity promoting the use of Critical Path Method and PERT in construction scheduling. Such publicity has been supported by academic research which has failed to ask the basic question as to the feasibility of Critical Path Method or PERT for construction. If some contractors have to provide a Critical Path Method/PERT network in the bid at the request of the client, they usually employ an outside consultant to do it, pass his fee on to the client as part of the bid, and continue to manage the project in their own more appropriate manner. Therefore, it can be said that the construction industry has to a large extent rejected the Critical Path Method and PERT concepts, same as human bodies would reject medically transplanted organs from non related humans.

The low weighting on cost control and efficient use of resources in the concept of Critical Path Method and PERT resulted in a model that is not the best approximate model of the construction process. Q. Scheduling core concept is ensuring a continuation of work flow for each group of employed resources in order to minimize associated costs.

Q. Scheduling is quantitative scheduling in the context that quantities to be executed at different locations of the construction project form the elements of the schedule. Also Q. Scheduling is Queue Scheduling in the context that trades pass through the different segments of the project in a queue sequence. No interference between two activities is allowed at the same location. It is derived basically from the Line of balance technique with some modifications to allow for the non repetitive models that is characteristic of the majority of construction projects.

Procedures

• Analyze the project to be constructed into suitable locations through vertical and/or horizontal segmentation. A proper Bill of quantities can form a starting point.

• Enter activities in their logical sequence at one location.

• Enter corresponding quantities for each activity in each location.

• Q. Scheduling software shall analyze all alternative sequences of locations and give you its recommendation in respect of the most economic alternative (s). However this recommendation is not binding.

• Select most suitable sequence of locations either from the recommended ones or else if you have constraints in respect of some locations and would rather have them at a later stage.

• You may optimize your planned output for your selected saved Sequence by pressing "Optimize"

• Save the produced schedule as original Schedule.

• At any time you may enter executed quantities up to a particular cut off date and compare actual construction progress with planned one. 

Required data to use Q. Scheduling as an efficient construction scheduling software:

• Start and Finish Dates of the project.

• List of Segments/Locations of the Project.

• List of Activities to be done in logical sequence at any segment.

• Estimated quantities corresponding to each activity at each segment.

• List of Capacities of teams for each activity or trade (an average daily output), which shall be optimized for you by Q. Scheduling software.

Exclusive Benefits you get by using Q scheduling software for construction scheduling include:

• Analytical comparison of possible alternatives in respect additional costs, likely to be incurred, as proportion of the most economic alternative.

• Optimization of performance rates for each alternative.

• Start and Finish dates for each crew on site that ensures a continuation of work flow.

• A due consideration of days off.

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This construction scheduling software is also available as a web based software where no download is required at construction software online for a nominal fee per session.