Location based scheduling is an alternate method of project management. Location based scheduling method emphasizes the continuity of work progressing through physical areas and is based on graphical techniques that demonstrate this aspect. Location Based Scheduling methods are most commonly applied to commercial building projects, however principles of this method may also apply to linear infrastructure projects with the major difference being that buildings use a discrete location-based axes rather than a continuous linear range as applied to linear projects like highways.
LOCATION BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (LBS)
While Traditional CPM scheduling is based on a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and where the work occurs is almost a secondary consideration, Location based methods use a Location Breakdown Structure (LBS) that creates a hierarchy of the sequencing that the works will proceed through such as building-floor-area-room structure.
The term location-based scheduling was first proposed by Russell Kenley in 2004 to differentiate the emphasis on locations and activities in planning, presented at the 12th International conference of Lean Construction.
Location Based Scheduling allocates quantities to the locations defined in the LBS and takes into consideration resourcing required to complete these works, including production rates, crew sizing, logic between tasks and any requirements for splitting or buffering works. The following forms of alternative scheduling methods all broadly fall into the category of location based scheduling techniques:
- Harmonograms
- Line Of Balance Chart (Line Of Balance Software)
- Flowline Method
- Integrated Line-of-balance and CPM
- Repetitive Scheduling Method (RSM)
- Time Location / Time Distance method
- Linear Scheduling (Linear Scheduling Software)
- March Charts
- Velocity diagrams
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