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Well, the first thing your Boss wants to know about Construction Planning is something a lot of them seem to be totally ignorant of! That is the importance of a Detailed Programme to Completion (DPC) if they want a project to finish on time, to standards and to budget!

We鈥檒l assume your Boss is Main Contractor side, because he wants to know a lot more than do the Client-side people.

Mind you聽they like to be copied in on this just to make them feel important!

To be fair, the Boss鈥檚 鈥�ignorance鈥� might come down to commercial construction considerations.

Planners capable of coming up with a good, comprehensive DPC don鈥檛 come cheap. They are the highest paid guys in the building game! So for quite a small project let鈥檚 say a DPC costs them 拢20k. Sounds a lot, but dirt cheap if it saves them additional costs at the end because of Delay!

So, assuming the job does actually have a Programme worth having, the first seven things the Boss wants to know are the same as what the Site Management wants to know

i)聽What Tasks are involved?

ii)聽Who has to do them?

iii)聽How long will they take?

iv)聽What order do they have to be done in?

v)聽Are the materials ordered in good time to be available when needed?

vi)聽Is there any risk of Delay being shown?

vii)聽What is being done about it if there is?

All this has to be fitted in between the and the Hand-Over Date.

After that point the Boss wants to know things that aren鈥檛 usually of interest to the site staff unless they number a QS amongst them. These include:-

viii)聽How much each Task costs?

ix)聽How much was allowed for the tendered cost?

x)聽Profit on the Task?

xi)聽What Invoice value to submit to the Client each month?

xii)聽What invoices to expect from sub-contractors and suppliers each month?

xiii)聽Is the project forecast to complete showing a profit?

From all that you鈥檒l see that the extra bits of what your Boss wants to know about Construction

Planning don鈥檛 interest those of us who like to be on site actually getting the project built.

It is just the one spin-off of all that which concerns us:-

Does it put enough money in the Bank to pay our wages!