{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.014330218068535825, 'fraction_numerical': 0.007476635514018692, 'mean_word_length': 5.449799196787149, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Construction Industry Perspective on Planning and Scheduling Content

This paper succinctly reports a study performed to explore planning and scheduling as the two key components of every project. Construction project managers devote a major portion of their daily time to develop, revise, and update their schedules. The same emphasis exists in construction education where the content is provided in one or two major courses through which students learn the basics and practice to develop project schedules with a high level of accuracy. To get inputs from industry and use them in the scheduling training process, a quantitative research method was utilized in the summer and fall 2019. The results indicated that scheduling as a major division has a strong presence in companies with different sizes, number of projects, and work experience. The results also indicated that different subcontractors have different levels of knowledge and competency in knowing and using time management tools. In addition, the results emphasized the importance of traditional time management techniques and methods. Better coordination between entities, more scheduling training for all, and team support of planners are reported as effective ways to improve the scheduling level. The outcomes help construction educators to revise their training material to correspond to the construction industry’s needs. © 2020 The Authors. Published by Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Diamond Congress Ltd Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of the Creative Construction Conference 2020.