In this podcast we cover:
- How to approach civil work.
- The steps to schedule Civil work in Takt.
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Welcome everybody out to podcast number 1161. In this podcast, I'm going to talk to you about how to schedule civil work intact. Stay with us. This is the Elevate Construction Podcast, delivering remarkable content for workers, leaders, and companies in construction wanting to take their next step. Get ready to step out of your comfort zone with Jason Schroeder as he encourages you to do better. Live a remarkable life and expect more. Let's go. Welcome everyone. I hope you're doing well. I'm heading to Kelowna, British Columbia in Canada. Heading through I think Vancouver and we're going to go do a form and boot camp for high street ventures. This is how cool this is really quickly. Let me just explain this. High street pays for a boot camp to go on that trains the supervision of all trade partners to fit into what's called the High Street Production System. That production system obviously has pre-planning, it has tacked, it has last planner, all of the lean core concepts. These trade partners come, they get certified, they get everything that they need. It's just a wonderful experience. In fact, they're making it mandatory for trade partners to work on their sites to do this training so that it can be standard everywhere they go so they get the results that they want. It's quite phenomenal. In the three days, we use the simulation but in a completely different way, like literally throughout. They're doing their own pool planning, their own packaging, they're figuring out the details of their own trades, they're implementing zone control. It really is just fantastic. That's where I'm heading. I got a little bit behind. I recorded a podcast 1161 last week with an individual but he changed his mind and said he didn't want it published just in case he said something that could come back to Biden. I'm just a little bit behind and I'll be seeing you next week as I hail from Canada. Those are some updates from my part. Kate and I are halfway through the attack steering and control book. It's jamming out. I'll definitely be done with the content drafting it in the next three weeks. We'll definitely have it before LCI Congress. It's such a neat effort. Then the other thing is next or sorry in two weeks, I'll be at the Super PM Bootcamp. We have 26 and it could go to 30 participants at the Super PM Bootcamp, our public bootcamp, and we're going to be doing it downtown Phoenix with a trusted partner at a really, really nice location. I'm super stoked about that as well. Anyway, so let's get on to the podcast itself. Oh, I do want to start. I got a little bit behind on by the way, I am in a Waymo. I don't know if I told you that. Excuse me. They're not very noisy, so I like to do podcasts in here. Hopefully it's good quality on your end. But let's go ahead read some feedback from our listeners. And I'm going to go to right now. Sorry, everybody. Okay, here we go. Hi, Jason. I have two of my New York guys coming to your September Super Intense Workshop. We are a design build. This gives the team unfettered access to the design team. The guys still don't know. I think I already read this one. Okay, so I'm sorry, everybody, sometimes when I'm in the heat of the moment, I don't remember to delete the comments. But we already covered that. How do we get superintendents and project managers to plan? That was one that I did in Salt Lake City for the YouTube shoot. So I'll go ahead and delete this one and say thank you to the person who gave the feedback. And I'll go on to the next comment. Morning, Jason, I find your stuff through a current manager I have here on site. And so far, I'm just getting started diving in. Thank you for the work you have already done. My question is this. How much does it matter to have had previous experience in the construction industry to be an effective superintendent? Thank you for your time. God bless you and your family. Okay. So how much, so I think I may have covered this one and not deleted it. But let me just say this. I think you have to have a little bit of experience, but I would rather have all superintendents and PMB process driven people that know the process and can do anything rather than having experience and being able to only just do one thing. So hopefully that answers the question. I'm not saying that it's that black and white, but I do think in our industry, we overestimate the importance of experience and underestimate the importance of process. Let me get, let me do one more in case I'd already done those two. Hi, Jason. I randomly discovered your videos on YouTube, and I just wanted to give you some feedback. The videos were great. And I found myself binge watching them late into the evening. I think it's the combination of your passion for doing things better, as well as your pragmatic. And in my view, correct views on how things can be done. Well, that's awesome. I really appreciate the feedback. And I hope that the channel keeps doing well. I'm super interested in getting really great topics and really great videos. And we'll continue all of this for everybody. Okay, so oh, by the way, I do want you to know that we're probably a quarter, a quarter or half of the way through writing, elevating construction field engineers, and Sammy at lintact is almost finished with all the graphics on the course skills book. And then I just need to write a paragraph for every section in the link the QR code. So that's coming along quite nice. Okay, so let's get right into it. Scheduling civil projects. So the what I want you to visualize is everything is like a train or like a freeway, right? Construction project, well, let's just use the train analogy. Construction project, you break it up by zones. That's your train tracks. And then your train of trades, that's your train. And you just flow through there like a train running on train tracks. Or like I said, you can look at it like your building is like a freeway. So level one up to two, three, four, it's like a freeway. And you've got cars and the trades are cars and the trains will go through and drive through that freeway, right? However you visualize it, it works. So if you're on a data center, it works through the main areas. If you're on a data center electrical room, it moves through the different segments and the massive pieces of equipment. If it's commissioning, you're moving through pieces of equipment according to the sequence of operations. And if you're in the civil world, which is what this podcast is about, you are going to run through the site development project or run through from a linear standpoint, the public utility project with the water line or the sewer line or whatever it is. It's all, what are your train tracks, which is the work area? And what is the train of trades? It's either your trades or your crew in an organization of a train. And so civil works really well when it comes to tact. First step, go ahead and get yourself a time by location format. On the left, instead of just having zones, you might have zones areas, no, no, sorry, phases areas, zones or phases areas and stations and or phases areas, stations, and then segments within those stations or runs of pipe or details on a on a page or a location specifically for something like storm drain. However you do it, make sure it's time by location. Typically what I'll do on the left is have phase area and then state the stations for or the stationing from station to station for that represents the actual zone or the run of pipe or the run of the water line or the storm drain or the sewer. So that's typically how that works. And I like that because you can match those up with the other installations on the project site. Then what you're going to want to do is identify what you're going to be installing within that stationing. So if it's pipe, I usually like to do this all on a table and have it be depth of pipe, complexity, number of fixtures, number of structures, whatever to communicate the complexity to you have showing or not. What are the soils conditions? So I'll have that in different columns near the station as segment. And then what I'll do is make sure that the data from a production rate standpoint for the actual install for the civil work, whether it's a pipe or something else is correct and that we are able to take that production rate by the linear feet inside that station segments and then come up with a production rate and then adjust it according to the circumstances. So now you have your duration. So each station will have its own duration for the pipes or whatever the install is based on your production rates. And then you can just start to plug those in in succession, then add buffers. And what's interesting is you'll plug in your water line, you'll plug in your sewer, you'll plug in your storm drain, and you'll see the flow for each crew, but you'll also see how they interact with each other. And depending on the elevation of the pipe, which one has to go first. So you start to network this production plan together, then you'll add buffers in at the end, according to risks, then you'll make sure that you have buffers throughout, then you'll make sure your crews can actually make it, then you'll analyze weather days, and whether or not you'll be impacted, then you'll analyze any of the other phases. And if your sequence is fed, you'll see if you need additional crews. And then from there, you'll have a correct overall total project duration, you'll have buffers, and you will have the ability to schedule your pre-install meetings, and your pulp plans, and anything else, you know, whatever it is that you need to put on your production plan. All of this is, should then include your zone maps, and your logistics plan. And then this goes into a fresh eyes meeting for you to review with the project team. And so the bottom line, still time by location format, typically we're using the stations for or the stationing for the zoning, you're going to get your durations from production rates, you're going to link crews into a nice flow, merge the different crew flows together, make sure you have an overall good plan with buffers, and then make sure your other time by location or your location-based visuals are complete, bring it into a fresh eyes meeting, and that's how you schedule civil projects. There's more, if you ever want more on this, let me know, because I've got a mirror board for this, and also some videos for it as well, which I think you'll really like. But I was asked to do a little podcast episode on this, and I appreciate it, and I hope everybody has a great week, on we go. 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