We’re excited to bring you a self-paced course about ALICE in partnership with Michael Lepage, Chief Learning Officer at Plan Academy.
What you'll learn
Michael Lepage provides a step-by-step overview of:
- How generative construction scheduling works and how it differs from the traditional CPM scheduling method
- How to set up a simple project in ALICE
- How to leverage ALICE to enable “optioneering” on a project
This course includes
- 4 modules with on-demand short videos for a self-paced course experience
Course content per module
Upon submission of the form on this page, you will immediately be redirected to the ALICE learning center, where you can access all module videos. Also, watch out for an email from us once you register.
Outline of the course content
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Get started with a short 2-minute video that introduces you to the course content and what you can expect.
The host then dives deeper into the key differences between CPM scheduling tools and ALICE, an AI-powered generative scheduling platform, enhancing your understanding.
Finally, you will learn how to set up a project in ALICE, including explanations on how to do so.
- Exploring a simple ALICE model
- Understanding recipes in ALICE
- How to generate schedules with optioneering
- Optioneering Part 2: exploring additional solutions
- Crew saturation analysis
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- Building a generative construction model
- Introduction to the Gotham City Watermain Project
- Opening the starter project and organizing 2D elements
- Understanding and setting supports
- Adding 2D work elements to the project
- Grouping elements in ALICE
- Making a backup of the project
- Creating calendars and defining work periods
- Setting up labor resources
- Setting up equipment
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- Building the compound setup recipe
- Assigning the compound setup recipe
- Building the excavation recipe
- Introduction to custom properties in ALICE
- Complete the excavation recipes
- Building the tunneling recipe
- Importing recipes from Excel
- Adding milestones to the project
- Adjusting the model to meet milestone dates
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- Parametric models: why our project is not parametric
- Adding costs to our project in ALICE
- Revising the tunneling recipe to be parametric
- Setting up production rates
- Revising the excavation recipe
- Setting duration to scale with equipment
- Oops...fixing mistakes with scenarios
- Revising the model to allow for 2 TBMs
- Exploring solutions with 2 TBMs
- Exporting from ALICE to P6