Scheduling is an important step in identifying potential claims and issues related to the claims CCW will implement state of the art scheduling techniques to insure a fair and equitable review.

1- Bar Charts and Linked Bar Charts;
Bar Charts are the easiest and most widely used form of scheduling in construction management. Even with other scheduling techniques the eventual schedule is presented the form of a bar chart. A typical Bar chart is a list of activities with the start, duration and finish of each activity shown as a bar plotted to a time scale. The level of detail of the activities depends on the intended use of the schedule.

The linked bar chart shows the links between an activity and its preceding activities which have to be complete before this activity can start.

The bar charts are also useful for calculating the resources required for the project. To add the resources to each activity and total them vertically is called a resource aggregation. Bar charts and resource aggregation charts are useful for estimating the work content in terms of man-hours and machine hours.

2- Network Analysis and Critical Path Method
Practically network analysis offers little more than a linked bar chart, though its protagonists claim, with some justification, that the self contained steps of a network are more applicable to complex operations than the bar chart, and that the greater rigor imposed by the logic diagram produces more realistic models of the proposed work. The steps in producing a network are:

• Listing of activities
• Producing a network showing the logical relationship between activities.
• Assessing the duration of each activity, producing a schedule, and determining the start and finish times of each activity and the available float
• Assessing the required resources.

There are now two popular forms of network analysis in construction management practice, activity on the arrow and activity on the node, the latter  now usually called a precedence diagram. Each of these approaches offers virtually the same facilities and it seems largely a matter of preference which is used.

The duration of construction projects right from inception to completion is assuming great importance in the construction industry. Clients or consumers are no longer content merely with minimal cost and adequate functional performance for their projects; increasing interest rates, inflation and other commercial pressures, among other factors, mean that it is in many instances most cost-effective to complete a project within the shortest possible time.

There is no consensus in the literature on the identification of factors which affect stipulated, planned or achieved construction times of buildings. One reason for this is that researchers have largely viewed the subject from diverse prospective. Such view points include identification of discrete factors which affect productivity on site and taking a systems view of the construction process and end product.

The following factors have been traced to be the construction time influencing factors, with different weights assigned to them by each individual planner.

Factors pertinent to Clients

• Financial ability/ financial arrangement for the project
• Previous working relationship
• Category ( Public, private)
• Priority on construction time
• Specified sequence of completion
• Possible changes to initial design

Factors pertinent to Consultants

• Completeness and timeliness of project information 
• Build-ability of design
• Provision for ease of communication
• Previous working relationships
• Priority on construction time

Factors pertinent to contractors

• Availability of suitable management team given firm's current work load.
• Programming construction work.
• Previous performance of site management team
• No of sub-contractors

Factors pertinent to Contract Form

• Suitability to project time
• Use of standard form of contract

Factors pertinent to project conditions

• Function or end use ( office, residential, industrial,...)
• Complexity
• location

External Factors

• Weather
• Regulations
• Statutory undertakes ( water, gas, etc..)