Over the last few months it has become increasingly apparent that some builders in Perth’s booming construction market are not spending the time and effort to produce quality construction programmes.

We believe that incompetant “planners” are being employed to produce rubbish and non-sensical programmes.

As the premier Project Planning consultants in Perth, JCA is being appointed by clients to review these poor programmes, and we have increasingly found that what has been submitted to those clients is rubbish, unusable (both for Client and the builder themselves), and we report back accordingly. The builder then has to engage a competant planner to fix up the stuff ups (which many times means JCA gets called in).

It is true that some of the builders are using their untrained inhouse staff to produce these programmes, just because they know how to turn on Microsoft Project. With no training on critical path methodologies, or ability to produce a reasonable, realistic and detailed programme of works, the result is a useless bar chart of no meaning.

Unfortunately there are some one man band “consultant” planners in Perth who are also preparing such rubbish for the builders. They have no excuse, and should not be practising.

We say take a look at what you are preparing for the builder and ask yourself if you would be prepared to accept that to build the project yourself.

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