Overview

This intensive hands-on workshop is designed for project managers, planners, schedulers, project controls engineers, contract administrators, claims consultants, and construction professionals seeking practical experience in project planning, scheduling, and delay analysis using Primavera P6.

Throughout the workshop, participants will develop a complete baseline schedule for a building construction project from scratch and subsequently perform a Time Impact Analysis (TIA) using the schedule they have created. The workshop combines internationally recognized planning and scheduling principles with practical Primavera P6 applications, enabling participants to understand both schedule development and delay analysis methodologies.

Participants may either follow the live demonstration or actively perform the exercises on their own computers under the guidance of the instructor.

Workshop Objectives

The primary objective of this workshop is to demonstrate how a professional construction schedule can be developed and analyzed in accordance with internationally recognized planning, scheduling, and delay analysis practices.

By the end of the workshop, participants will understand how to:

  • Develop a baseline schedule from project scope information
  • Structure a project using an appropriate Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Define and detail schedule activities
  • Estimate activity durations using productivity and man-hour calculations
  • Establish logical relationships between activities
  • Develop a Critical Path Method (CPM) schedule
  • Create and validate a baseline programme
  • Introduce delay events into a schedule
  • Perform a Time Impact Analysis (TIA)
  • Evaluate the effect of delay events on project completion dates

Workshop Content

Part I – Development of a Baseline Construction Schedule

Project Planning Strategy

  • Understanding project scope and planning requirements
  • Establishing scheduling assumptions and constraints

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

  • Developing a project-specific WBS
  • Work package identification
  • Schedule hierarchy and coding structure

Activity Development

  • Activity identification and decomposition
  • Defining project milestones and key deliverables

Duration Estimation

  • Productivity assessment techniques
  • Man-hour -based duration estimation

Logic Development

  • Establishing activity relationships
  • Constraint management

CPM Schedule Development

  • Float analysis
  • Schedule optimization

Baseline Schedule Preparation

  • Baseline development principles
  • Baseline Schedule quality checks
  • Final baseline schedule preparation

Schedule Update

  • Updating actual progress information
  • Schedule recalculation and forecasting
  • Identifying schedule deviations

Part II – Time Impact Analysis (TIA)

Introduction to Delay Analysis

  • Overview of delay analysis methodologies
  • Prospective and retrospective delay analysis approaches
  • Introduction to Time Impact Analysis (TIA)

Delay Event Identification

  • Defining delay events
  • Delay documentation requirements
  • Delay fragnet development

Practical Time Impact Analysis Application

  • Developing delay fragnets
  • Incorporating delay events into the schedule
  • Running schedule impact simulations
  • Assessing impacts on project milestones and completion dates

Workshop Instructor

This workshop will be delivered by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Çevikbaş, an academic and industry professional specializing in project planning, scheduling, project controls, delay analysis, and construction claims.

Dr. Çevikbaş has extensive international experience in the development, updating, and forensic analysis of construction schedules across a wide range of infrastructure and building projects. In addition to his academic research in project management and delay analysis, he actively provides consultancy services on Extension of Time (EOT) claims, delay analysis, project controls, and dispute resolution.

As the founder of Erachron, he has been involved in numerous schedule development, delay analysis, and quantum assessment assignments for projects across different sectors and geographical regions. This workshop reflects both industry best practices and practical lessons learned from real-life project planning and delay analysis applications.

For further information, please visit www.erachron.com.