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  1. JPatten

    How Does Every One Else Do It

    I would suggest you look into a Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS). There are several vendors offering this type of software. We use a system called TMA which is tailored to Univeristy Maintenance but does many of the things you are looking for a software to do. A work request is...
  2. JPatten

    Planning Units

    In P3 you can assign each activity a seperate calendar. You can have several calendars for many different senarios like shift work etc. It appears that during the conversion all of your activities were assigned to a calendar that is in hours. You will need to either change that calendar to...
  3. JPatten

    Moving an activity

    Ditto on what Ingy said. I would like to add to his comments. Once you have the logic the way you want it you can use Activity Codes to sort/group your activities.
  4. JPatten

    Primavera vs MS Project

    Question of the day. I would assume you will get many different opinions. I personally prefer P3 only because I have the most experience with P3. I have not used MS Project in about 7-years so I guess it would not be fair to give you old information.
  5. JPatten

    New Project

    Excellent advice. You will run into disagreements. Just remember they are not personal. Everyone is trying to do their job. Again excellent advice. The only wrong decision is no decision. The one piece of advice I can add is that any good Superintendent will test you. Just hold your own...
  6. JPatten

    Change Order Request

    The owner does end up with some loss. Only half of the HVAC was bid competitively. If the other half is paid for by change order then the owner ends up paying more.
  7. JPatten

    Using P3 for budgeting

    It sounds like you would be using two systems for accounting. In my experience that will cause you more than twice the work. Not only do you have to enter all of the information twice but you will have to reconcile between the two programs.
  8. JPatten

    Career Advice Needed

    All I can say after being in the construction industry for the past 15 years is that we all get put into those situations from time to time. Sometimes companies have to put somebody on a project to get the things done that have not been getting done. The choice is usually made by the...
  9. JPatten

    What is the best engineering advice you ever received?

    Stay away from the person who feels the need to tell you how good they are and tells you about all the great things they did on the last project.
  10. JPatten

    Temporay Assignment (Help)

    I have been on several temporary asignments and in my experience there are several things that always hold true. 1. The assignment always seems to be for longer than they tell you. 2. If you didn't negotiate it before you went than there is no way you will be able to negotiate it after you...
  11. JPatten

    structural

    Pricing would difer depending on where you are located and if it's union labor or not. Never priced stairs by the riser before.
  12. JPatten

    Two jobs on the same project

    I would look at each company and see what they have to offer in the future after this project. With the Contractor you will most likely be traveling from project to project and depending on the size of the company that can range from state to state. I worked for 12 years for a very large...
  13. JPatten

    Resigning gracefully...

    I would include the reasons you are leaving in your letter. You want to document that you are leaving to finish your education and that you feel that it is not feasable for you to work full time and go to school which is the reason for your departure. Explain that you have set this goal for...
  14. JPatten

    THREATENED WITH THE SACK

    Why not just talk to the person. I would sit down with the person and talk about the issue that created the problem and try to understand what they are so upset about. Also, during the conversation try and see if you can get them to see your side. If your both reasonable about it than in most...
  15. JPatten

    Construction without a permit (ethical dilemma)

    Are you sure it's the contractors responsibility to get the permits? Sometimes the Owner does this. Just depends on how the contracts were written.
  16. JPatten

    Allow NS Start/Finish date and Suppress Gantt Graphics

    Change the font of the date to something other than a number format. Maybe use a wingding font. Than you really cannot read the date but you can still see the activity description. It would look a little funny but would work for what your doing.
  17. JPatten

    Two lines on the Resource Graph

    Couldn't you export the data into excel and make the graph that you want. Just an idea. I have done this in the past when I couldn't get the program to graph what I wanted.
  18. JPatten

    Estimating truck yardage to placed yardage

    KRSServices, I can understand your reasons for going to scales since you are dealing in such large quantities and if I was in your situation I would probably do the same. Since Dooley is the loader, hauler, and spreader and since he is not paying for the material itself wouldn't the bucket...
  19. JPatten

    Project Management Software

    Primavera Suretrack but if your boss thinks MS Project is too complicated than he will probably not like Suretrack either.
  20. JPatten

    Estimating truck yardage to placed yardage

    The loader you use will have a certain cubic yard bucket on it so just figure how many buckets it takes to fill the truck. Not every bucket load will be the same but in the end it will probably even out. Load one truck and have the operator pay attention to each bucket and have him/her try and...

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