site visit

Depending on the data needed. A Planner might not need to go to site if the data given by the Site Group is reliable. Designers are obliged to go to site to see if what they’re doing / designing are practicable.

In the initial stages itself, make necessary templates for information flow and prepare responsibility matrix against that. Approved the same by PM.

As planning Engineer is nucleus of the project. All the work information should flow in & out from him. If the templates are effective in monitoring and controlling the project, then theoretically, planner is not at all required to go to site.

Cheers,

Raviraj A Bhedase

Hi All,

"PLANNERS IN FUTURE WILL BE BORN WITHOUT LEGS"

This was the comment give to me years back when I was working in Saudi Arabia by a Construction manager. I was very much offended that time but realised the massage behind it later in my career.

A planner must be very much a site man and he should take all opportunities to visit site, this will help him in more ways than one e.g. understanding of consctruction sequence, construction bottlenecks, consstruction norms and efficience and most of all a better rapo with site team which will ensure that the desired information reaches to him on time.

Regards,

Ashraf

It is depending what you are doing. When you are responsible for engineering schedules a few visit to site is enough. During these few visit you can meet your collegues and also an impression of the site. Both will help you develop the schedules.
When you are responsible for construction schedules, it is better to have your main workstation on site, because you need the information from your construction partners. Things are changing very fast on site during the construction phase, so therefore it is better to be located on site.

I have to agree with Ashraf, the more site visits you can do the better!

You will not only get a better understanding of what happends on site but over time you can get a better picture of what is been reported to you is correct or not!

Few years before, i got a comment,

"Planning Engineers are mere BUTTON PUSHERS"

But, yaa i agree with Ashraf to make as much site visits as possible for detailed understanding of the project.

But, theoretically, you are not required to go to site.

Cheers,

Raviraj A Bhedase

i think
site visits are the most imp aspects for a planning engineer for lots of reasons as stated in earlier posts,
they can give u a clear idea of whats going on site.

regards

mangesh

Hello friends, i do agree with views of mangesh and others with similar views. it is just physical estimation, u can asses that how correct the feed back data your are getting about the constuction activites on site but, u cant estimate the acurate quanties of work done if proper recording system from staff is avaliable which is very usefull for updating the construction activites (on progress on site)

to update the total schedule on construction activies progress onsite is not enough, u have to get infromation from other departemtn also like drawings stauts( submital & approval, pending) for design avtivites satatus, similarly status on materials (procuremnt, submissions, onsite--etc) .

in shellnut to control a project u have to control the 4 m’s required for a project to Initiate,progress & closing a project ( what i mean my 4 m’s the 4 resources)

Hi sridhar,

there are 5M’s and not 4

- Manpower
- Material
- Machinary
- Money
- Minutes (Time)

Hi Raviraj Bhedase,

ofcourse time is also a factor for the project comletion, but i though
- Manpower
- Material
- Machinery
- Money are the main factors depending on the time factor is going to decided

but if iam wrrong i am sorry

cheers
Sridhar