SEngineV0.2

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Build a first-draft programme for Primavera P6 from your BOQ workbook.

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How to start

  1. Download a sample and replace its data with yours.
    Sample project 1Sample project 2

    Sample project 1 is the simplest start: two levels, block and floor. Sample project 2 has five levels, with zones.

  2. Upload your workbook below and click Run engine.
  3. Download the result: the P6 file, the one-page report and the Excel cash-flow sheets.

Trouble with your BOQ? The BOQ converter fills the BOQ sheet for you from a client BOQ.

1. Input

Advanced options (most planners do not need these)
Advanced limits (planning lead)

Hours per day must equal your P6 calendar, because durations are exported in hours. A 6-day week assumes Friday is the day off.

Fix these in the input file

Result

Programme

Direct workers per week

Cumulative cost (S-curve)

Warnings

    The Excel workbook has the monthly cash flow with its cumulative S-curve, and the average man days with a data table, each as an Excel chart, laid out like the sheets planners build from P6 data. The hours per trade are on its Data sheet. The one-page report opens a summary of the programme, with the dates, milestones, charts and assumptions, that you can print or save as a PDF. XER is the file to use: every version of P6 accepts it (File, Import, Primavera P6 (XER)). XML is the same programme in the newer format, for recent versions of P6.

    Target fit

    DCMA 14-point scorecard

    Direct workers per week

    Crews and splits
      Activities exempt from the 21-day cap
      Review list (low-confidence or unmatched BOQ lines)
      Library gaps: what to add to the library first

      Work the library did not recognise, biggest cost first. A "closest" activity means the library has the same kind of work, but in a different unit, so a small library change may fix it.

      How the BOQ was spread over the locations

      Lines that name one WBS row go exactly there. Lines that name a building or a floor, or no location, are spread over the rows below them, equally unless you entered Floor share and Zone share percentages, onto the rows marked for that kind of work.

      Activities (first 300)

      My saved projects

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      SEngine is in beta and free to use. Tell us what worked and what did not. Please do not put confidential project data in your message.