Primavera P6 Baseline Programmes in Dubai

Who you will speak to

Ahmed Elsayed, Managing Director. Ahmed handles UAE programme inquiries himself, in Arabic or English.

• MSc with a specialism in delay analysis; PhD candidate in construction claims and dispute resolution
• Gulf project experience including Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Saudi giga-projects
• Baseline and recovery programmes for Dubai developers, consultants and contractors

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Why baseline programmes get rejected

Most rejected baselines fail on the same points. We check for each of them before submission:

• Open ends, missing logic and too many constraints, so the critical path is not real
• Durations that do not match quantities, crew sizes or the method statement
• Missing design, submittal, procurement and authority approval activities (Dubai Municipality, DEWA, Civil Defence)
• Calendars that ignore the working week, public holidays or summer working hours
• No narrative, or a narrative that does not explain the sequence and the assumptions
• A programme that does not follow the developer’s WBS, coding or submission format

What the baseline includes

• A Primavera P6 programme (XER and PDF) with a WBS that follows the contract and the developer’s format
• Engineering, submittal, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning and handover activities
• Contract milestones, key dates and access dates from the tender documents
• Resource loading and manpower and equipment histograms where the contract asks for them
• A programme narrative: sequence, critical path, assumptions, risks and calendars
• A schedule quality check report using DCMA 14-point style checks

Programme timing under FIDIC

Under FIDIC 1999 the contractor submits a detailed programme within 28 days of the commencement notice. FIDIC 2017 sets out what the programme must contain and lets the Engineer respond within 21 days. Many Dubai contracts change these periods in the particular conditions, so we check them first and plan the submission around them.

Your first conversation

After approval

An approved baseline becomes the reference for progress and for any extension of time. We can set up the monthly update process, the progress measurement and the reports, so that delay can be shown clearly when it happens. If delay has already happened, see our EOT claims service in Dubai.

Check your own programme

Our free P6 schedule health check template (DCMA 14-point) runs the same checks we use before every submission.