PULL PLANNING Clause Samples

PULL PLANNING. The IPD Team shall employ a pull scheduling approach to planning and scheduling, which provides that preceding activities are not started sooner than is needed to assure the continuous performance of subsequent activities. Where the work of one IPD Team member is dependent upon the prior performance of another IPD Team member, the IPD Team member whose work follows shall request of, and receive from, the prior performer a commitment as to when the work to be handed- off will be finished. Applicable IPD Team members shall agree upon criteria for the hand-off of items of work.

PULL PLANNING. Construction Manager will utilize pull planning for scheduling and planning delivery of the project. All Trade Contractors and significant vendors are expected to fully participate in the process as facilitated by the trade contractor. Contractual expectations of the trades and vendors include:  Full participation in all planning meetings by the appropriate level of representative (Field and Project Management) of the Trade or Vendor as a member of the project team;  The project team will: o Validate CPM schedule (if available) with a milestone schedule developed collaboratively (will require Project Management level representatives and may require Trade superintendents/foremen); o Develop appropriate milestones that take those chunks of work that ought to be done and break them into phases (requires Project Management and Field representatives); o Engage in a highly collaborative system of planning the work in those phases with the people who manage the day-to-day assignment of work for that phase (requires Field representatives).  The production plan for each phase will be created using the pull technique, starting from the milestone on the right, and working to the start of the particular phase or weekly work plan toward the left.  Optimally, the project team will work together to optimize the opportunity to design the production system or align the design of the production system with the BIM model.  The project team will also: o Use a process for look ahead planning (usually six (6) weeks) that identifies everything that needs to be in place so that assignments can be made and work can be done as planned; o Use a constraints identification system to ensure quality discussions of making work ready and indicates that individuals have made commitments to remove constraints for tasks in future weeks five (5) or six (6) or beyond; o Engage in collaborative weekly work planning that determines the tasks that will be done in the following weeks; o Engage in fifteen (15) minute huddles each morning to review the previous, current and following day’s work; o A weekly work planning and look ahead program will use production boards in the trailer with works tasks, constraints and milestones represented by stickie notes on the boards. The boards will be displayed and maintained in a manner that ensures work to be done is visible to all other trades, to encourage conversations at the boards regarding work that will be done every week and to advise the owner, ...