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Class exercise CFCP-2025-001

Metro Plaza Foundation Construction

Four foundation pads, twelve resources and £371,621 of cost to load. Build the programme, give every activity its crew, plant and materials, then update it twice and read what the earned value is telling you.

Programme: 24 days
Budget: £371,621
Activities: 22
Updates: 2

Register to open the exercise

Cohort 4 students. Your tutor shares the class password in the cohort group.

Fourteen seconds of the whole exercise

The programme draws itself, the budget loads to £371,621 and the baseline S-curve climbs. By the end of the class you will have built every frame of it in P6.

Five trades, four pads, one concrete crew

Each pad runs the same sequence. The pours are chained, so one crew moves from North to South to East to West, and the critical path hops across the site with it.

Site preparation, then excavation

Clear, grade, dig

Site crew, then an excavator with its operator and three labourers. Excavation sets the pace for everything behind it.

Formwork

Shutters and props

Carpenters and formwork ply. Two gangs on site, four pads that want them at once. You will find the clash in the resource profile.

Reinforcement

Fix the steel

Steel is a material resource priced per tonne. One pad fixes it with a smaller gang: same activity, different resource need.

Concrete

Pour and cure

Ready-mix by the cubic yard, a crew of four and a truck. Four pours in sequence close the job on 01/08/2025.

Cost curve

Carpenters against their limit

Daily hours on R004 Carpenters. The limit is 128 h a day, two gangs of eight.

Planned hoursOver the limit128 h limit

Programme

CriticalNot criticalCompleteBaselineTotal float

Resources and cost build-up

Twelve resources. Open any activity to see the assignments to enter in P6 and the arithmetic behind its budgeted cost. Your figures should match to the pound.

ID	Resource	Type	Units/day	Limit/day	Price	Unit

Material resources are the trap

Concrete, steel and formwork ply are costed on quantity, not duration: enter the budgeted units directly. Steel divided by concrete should sit near 0.10 t per cubic yard on every pad. A figure three times higher is a typing error, not a design.

West-130 fixes 9.5 t with Rebar Workers × 2, not × 3. Same activity, different need. Assign activity by activity.

Activity	Dur	Resources assigned	Labour hours	Budgeted cost

Progress updates

Site reports to close of play on Wednesday; the new data date is Thursday 09:00. Enter the dates, remaining duration, Physical % and the actual and remaining units, then schedule.

Earned value

Earned value is the baseline budget multiplied by Physical % Complete. Planned value spreads each baseline budget evenly over its working days.

Measure	How it is worked out	Week 1	Week 2	Change

What the numbers say

Your P6 steps

Tick each step as you finish it. Ticks stay in this browser.

Downloads

The brief and the answer workbook. Submit the workbook, your Week 2 XER, the narrative and two screenshots through the cohort group before the date your tutor gives.

PDFDownload the Scope of Work briefTT-CR-01 · 12 pages · calendar, WBS, resources, both site reports, deliverables and marking XLSXDownload the answer workbook (D1)Baseline, Week 1, Week 2, carpenter profile and narrative sheets · yellow cells are yours to fill WEBRead the brief in your browserSame content as the PDF, for phones and tablets