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The document explains how to calculate engineering working hours for shop drawing submittals and resubmittals. It involves defining the number of shop drawings, creating a link sheet between summary and detailed drawings, using a pivot table to count drawings, and multiplying counts by an agreed productivity rate per drawing.

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How To Calculate Engineering Working Hours

The document explains how to calculate engineering working hours for shop drawing submittals and resubmittals. It involves defining the number of shop drawings, creating a link sheet between summary and detailed drawings, using a pivot table to count drawings, and multiplying counts by an agreed productivity rate per drawing.

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Planning Engineer FZE Project Management & Planning Services and Training

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How to Calculate Engineering Working Hours

Working hours create realistic project schedules. It enables accurate resource allocation,
cost estimation, and critical path analysis. Project managers can assess resource productivity
and adhere to project constraints, such as night shifts or specific time windows. Working
hours aid in effective communication, ensuring stakeholders understand when activities are
scheduled. It's important for managing projects in multiple time zones.

In this article, we will explain how to calculate the working hours for Engineering work

( ShopDrawing Submittal & ShopDrawing Resubmittal )

From a practical Point of view, the P6 Schedule will not contain 100% of all project shop
drawings, We will have a summary level of the Shop Drawings. Therefore we need to do an
intermediate step to calculate the working hours accurately

A. Define the number of ShopDrawings

Usually, the total number of the shop drawings is not inserted in the Time schedule but we
insert a summary for it to reduce the number of activities in Primavera, and to track the
Shop drawing process we create the Shop Drawings log
This is the Summary of Shop Drawings in the Time Schedule

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The Shop Drawings log


The shop drawings log contains all the detailed drawings names and date

We need to link the Shop Drawings log to the Shop Drawings in the P6 Schedule to calculate
the number of the sheets ( shop Drawings ) for each activity in the schedule

Now we need to create an Excel sheet to link the summary activities to the detailed one
This means every activity in your schedule may contain one or more shop drawings in the
Log

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The Link Sheet


This sheet contains a detailed drawing linked with the main activities in Primavera P6

Create a Pivot table to count the detailed drawings to the summary one
From the Insert menu choose Pivot table

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Choose the wanted range for the sheet and Select the new worksheet

This is the layout of the Pivot table


we will add the columns in Rows and Values to make the table count every repeated
drawing under the summary drawing

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Once you put the Activity name and ID in the Rown This table will show up but we need to
see the Activity name beside the Activity ID, Click on the inverted triangle beside the Activity
ID

After Clicking on the inverted triangle this will show up :


From “Subtotals & Filters “ Choose “ None “

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Then Go to “Layout & Print“ then choose “Show items labels in tabular form” then press ok

This is the shape of the Pivot table, But we need to count the detailed drawings in every
summary one

We will add a new column in the Pivot table

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Once you add the shop drawings Title in “ Values “ the Column of “ Count of ShopDrawings
Title” will show up

This is the Pivot table layout, Once you add new shop drawings in the main Table and
refresh it, It will be here and counted

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B. Agree about productivity rate with your Team


We can agree with our technical office team about the required hours per drawing sheet
Let's assume that every sheet takes 4 HRS
Here we multiply the Count of shop drawings with the 4 HRs, and it will give you the
working hours for the summary shop drawings

If you want to calculate the weight for the activities, This Article is for you:
How to calculate Planned % and Actual % using Weight

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