To start the week off, we here in the Architecture + CommunityBUILD studio began with laying out the schedule for the next month. The last full month of each semester is always where the semester’s work comes to fruition. Each of us students will be engaged with on-site work, prefabricating elements in the CDC.C’s shop, and/or creating shop drawings. The underwritten act in all of this that ensures a project is completed is the management of Time.
To calculate the scheduling of the build work, we first begin by setting a completion date. After the making of this hard deadline, we then proceed to break down all of the pieces that make up our design into categorized tasks of construction. Some of these categories include painting of steel or pouring concrete. Once we’ve separated the tasks into categories of work and calculated the amount of time each task should take, we then build the schedule backwards. Going backwards from the completion date allows us to avoid conflicting tasks more easily and reinforces the plan to have the build complete by a certain date.
Erecting a building can seem overwhelming, but with a dedicated crew, careful planning, and scrupulous detailing, the seemingly impossible becomes possible.