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P6, Acumen Fuse & Risk, and Synchro – Putting it all Together

• n a Major Infrastructure

Program

Presented by: Project Controls Cubed (PC3)

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Overview

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Project Controls Cubed (PC3)

• Small company – it doesn’t require a big company
• Based in Manhattan Beach, CA
• Three Principles
• Serelle Corn
• Jeff Campbell
• Bob Campbell
• Everything we will show you here we have done in the last year. Not theory.

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P6 is the Data Engine It’s all in the Cloud…

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Building the Master Program Schedule

• Standard Phases
• Standard Milestones
• Standard Gates

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Building the Master Program Schedule

• EPS/WBS
• Cost Loading Req.
• Planning Schedule
• Establish Schedule

Acceptance Stds per Specs

• BIM Object Naming
• Revit Federated Model
• Synchro Server
• Accurate Actual Cost Reporting
• Design/Construction Schedules Linked

into Master Schedule

• Review Design Schedules
• Risk Analysis on Design &

Construction Schedules

• Build 5D Program Wide

Construction Schedule

• Turn Over As‐Built

5D Model to Owner

• Archive 5D Model

for Future Projects with Similar Scope Provide Construction Schedule PDF

• Accurate Actual Cost

Reporting

• Construction Schedule

Assimilation into Master

• Build Program‐

Wide Commission‐ ing/Training Schedule

• Archive Program

Schedule for Future Projects with Similar Scope

• Build/Update 5D

Schedule from Contractor Construction Schedules

• Build 5D Program Wide

Commissioning Schedule

• Review Contractor

Construction Schedules

• Risk Analysis on

Commissioning Schedule

• Provide 4D/5D Model

to Bidders

• Or Show Animation

at the Kick‐off

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Linking Consultant Schedules into the Master Schedule

PROGRAM MGMT Schedule DESIGN Consultant Schedules

ENVIRONMENTAL Consultant Schedule

CONSTRUCTION Contractor Schedules

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Managing the Master Program Schedule

• P6 is the data engine that drives the program
• Use P6 Reflections so the Master Schedule can function as

both a PLANNING tool and a CONTROL tool

• Substitute approved consultant schedules and link them in

the Master Schedule using activity codes

• Define reports using layouts

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Using Reflections During Planning

• Used to Control Project

Schedule Integrity

• Create Budgets
• Record Actual Costs
• Run Performance Reports
• Used for Alternative Plans
• Alternative Scenarios
• Contract Packaging Options
• Cost‐Loaded Options

Create a Reflection Schedule in P6

Keys to Success:

• Understand the Merge

Reflection Report

• Reflections do not delete
• Delete the old to prepare

for the new

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Useful Reports During Planning

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Useful Reports During Planning

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Important Synchro Tasks During Planning

• Establish BIM model parameters for 4D/5D.
• Develop Object Naming Convection.
• Shared coordinates do not transfer to Revit DWF’s.
• Navisworks cannot be updated.
• Implement the work‐around, a Program wide Synchro model

works including updating.

• Misc. Flashings

Schedule BIM Model Estimate Same Naming Convention

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Important Synchro Tasks During Planning

• Establish BIM model parameters for 4D/5D
• Use
• Consistent nomenclature
• Shared coordinates

• Misc. Flashings

Schedule BIM Model Estimate

S a m e N o m e n c l a t u r e

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Scheduling Tools During Design

• All four tools come together during Design.
• P6 remains the schedule generator.
• Use Acumen FUSE for Consultant Schedule

Reviews.

• Acumen Risk analysis on higher quality schedules.
• Weather risk analysis using Acumen Risk.
• Use Synchro to review Designer’s Construction

Schedules.

• Build program wide Synchro 5D model including all

equipment.

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Acumen FUSE for Design Schedule Reviews

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Adjust Schedule for Risk

• Project Manager will normally prepare a Risk Register with Program risks

and specific Project risks

• Many tools to help evaluate, manage the mitigate these risks
• Best one to assist schedule and cost risk analysis is Acumen RISK
• Allows analysis of any combination of risks
• Quickly see the drivers that affect schedule certainty
• Select a probability level to help set required program float (cost and schedule)
• Will give a risk adjusted Critical Path (CP) versus standard CP

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Examples of Risk Analysis S3

• Risk analysis on schedules which passed S2 requirements are high quality.
• Acumen Risk analysis including duration and cost uncertainty on individual

activities generates realistic risk adjusted schedules which can be imported back into P6 and Synchro.

• Provides a quantifiable basis for schedule and cost contingency.

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Using Synchro for Construction Schedule Reviews

• Traditional means of reviewing construction schedules is inefficient and

relatively ineffective

• Synchro gives more thorough and less expensive schedule reviews
• Much easier to visualize constructability issues
• Coordinate site logistics
• Identify construction issues in advance and put corrections in specifications

before they become a construction change order

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Synchro Benefits During Design

• Anticipate construction sequencing issues not evident from traditional

analysis

• Assures a realistic method of construction lies behind bid document durations
• Provides better planning of site logistics, particularly on constrained sites
• Should reduce RFIs and Change Orders
• Assists operational shutdown planning

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Example of Synchro Model Results

• First model of a Biological Nutrient Removal Facility at PDR stage shows
• Items missing from the schedule
• Items constructed out of sequence
• Areas with difficult construction sequencing
• Federated model shows:
• Haul routes and staging areas
• Conflicts between projects
• Equipment movements

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Weather Risk Analysis – Using FUSE and RISK

• Example of a weather analysis we performed. Haven’t seen this done

before

• Process
• Create risk adjusted schedule in Acumen
• Import back to the P6 cloud
• Synch to Synchro
• Baseline the risk adjusted schedule into your current Synchro schedule
• Display a 4D model of the variance between the two schedules.
• Revolutionizes the risk process. Assures a high integrity schedule.
• Synchro assures entire scope is included and sequence is current.
• Fuse assures the schedule meets specification
• RISK allows you to visually see the risk adjusted schedule

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Weather Risk Analysis – Using FUSE and RISK

• Expands the risk process. Assures a high integrity schedule.
• Synchro assures entire scope is included and sequence is current.
• FUSE assures the schedule meets specification
• RISK allows you to visually see the risk adjusted schedule
• Doing this now. Not theory.

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Scheduling Tools During Bid & Award

• Option to Release Synchro model to

bidders

• Benefit of tighter, better informed bids
• Controversial – Spearin Doctrine – Could be

interpreted as dictating means and methods

• Can include disclaimers
• Showing the model at the Pre‐Bid Conference

BID & AWARD

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Scheduling Tools During Construction

• Current Program Status ‐ Starting Construction
• Plan to use Synchro to review Contractor’s

Schedules for content integrity

• Use Acumen FUSE for schedule quality reviews
• Several management issues
• Determined that Designer should maintain BIM Model
• We will use Synchro model for schedule reviews but not release

model to Contactors

• We input Change Orders to keep model current

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Scheduling Tools During Commissioning & Closeout

• Synchro is a good tool for visualizing

commissioning

• Shows duration of shutdowns
• Good visualization for training O&M
• Records as‐builts
• Good basis for next project

COMMISSIONING CLOSEOUT

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PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

• Build a Master Schedule in P6 and validate it in FUSE
• Create a RISK adjusted schedule and baseline into P6
• Synch the proposed construction schedule into Synchro to reveal any

constructability issues and verify durations

• Compare side‐by‐side animations of Base 5D schedule and Risk adjusted 5D

Schedule

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PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

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