From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling
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Work breakdown structure
From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling
Work breakdown structure
- Sometimes, when a project is simple and it only contains a few specific work activities, it might be easy to visualize and to grasp the overall construction plan and process. I might not need a detailed schedule. Kind of like if I'm going to the store to buy three things that I know I need, I probably don't need a written list. But as things grow and get more complex, I need to plan first if I want to be successful. If I'm going to the store to buy meals for the entire family for the next seven days, I need to plan each meal and figure out what ingredients I need for each one of those meals and put them on a list, or I'm going to end up going back to the store five more times in the coming weeks to get the things I forgot or didn't know I needed. Most construction projects are going to fall into this second example of being more complex. If your project has dozens or hundreds or even thousands of work activities, it's important the logic be carefully laid out so that all of the…
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