Scheduling Keys—Establishing a Realistic Schedule Baseline (Typical and Standard Schedules)

This chapter concentrates on the practical and realistic development of critical path method (CPM) schedules through the use of standard schedules. It includes only brief comments on CPM fundamentals. Specifically covered are three of the most advanced and important scheduling programs: • fast-track-economic program, • fast-track-trapezoidal technique, and • construction complexity-labor density program. The success and probability of a project schedule can be greatly enhanced with correct application of these three programs.