Practical Project Management for Building and Construction

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Free oat: amount of time a start of an activity may be delayed without

delaying the subsequent activity

Critical path: the series of activities that determines the earliest comple-

tion date; a delay on the critical path means a delay of the completion

date; there can be many critical paths in a network diagram

6.7.3  Time Control Process

Detailed schedules are done gradually (see Figure6.9). As more infor-

mation about the project becomes available, a more detailed schedule

can be made. ere is no point in detailed planning work on the build-

ing’s structure before it has been decided whether to build in situ or use

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