The Challenge:
With this project, the general contractor was hired by a major technology company to help it develop a new technology park in Silicon Valley. In planning the schedule for the project, the contractor began by using Oracle’s Primavera P6, a traditional CPM scheduling tool. However, because P6 doesn’t let users explore the impact of alternative scenarios on the time and cost of a construction project, the GC could not be sure that their P6 schedule was the most efficient and cost effective answer. In the quest for savings, the GC turned to ALICE to investigate schedule alternatives.
The Solution:
P6 gave the general contractor just one plan to build the new technology park. With ALICE, the contractor was able to take full advantage of its project team’s experience and explore a variety of ways to tackle the problem. “We removed the constraints that were hard coded within the P6 schedule and let ALICE come up with the most efficient scenarios,” said one of the company’s field engineers. “We unraveled the constraints and let ALICE come up with the most efficient scenarios,” said one of the company’s field engineers. “ALICE surfaced attractive options for us that we wouldn’t have had time to surface on our own given how long it takes to create schedules with traditional tools.”
