Lots of relationships as I

explained in construction industry, we usually have the first three are the
most common used ones in our industry. Which is a finish-to-start relationship,
start-to-start relationship, finish-to-finish relationship. As for
these two is when the start of activity to finish of an activity relationship and
the multiple relationships
in our industry. I would suggest to try away from that and avoid it using them in
your schedule. It's not that common, it's rare and
almost always you can still present the relationship between any activities
with the first three in your project. Finish to start relationships
it is the most common type of relationship as I explained earlier. And as I
mentioned several schedulers,
several construction managers on their projects still
prefer to only use this type of relationship between their
construction activities. So for example,
we cannot start assembling the windows, or even doors, until the window or
door frame are installed. Let's go through a more detailed
example with some numbers here. So as we can see here,
from this example we cannot pull a concrete until
the form work is done. So for example if we have a wall or
a column or a footing forms. We will not start the second
activity of a concrete, as we can see maybe at the end
date of placing the forms of 30. And the start date or
the start date of is also 50. So there is no even gap between both. However let's
go through an example where
we do have a gap, or what I call a lag. Which we expanded before in other
module such as the following one. Now, what we see here
after we put the concrete, we are waiting around 3 days,
when we say 3 days, the minimum, they or
the minimum number of waiting has to be 3. You can wait a little bit more, but not
less than 3 before you start the other
activities of taking out the forms. That's why if you notice, the early start of
the following activity is 35, which is 32 plus 3 of 35. So now this is an example
where we have no lag and this is an example where we have a lag. But I want to
explain a little bit more that basically we can still present or represent this
with three activities,
not just two. So for example, we can say that we have, Pour of the concrete, and
then here we have the, Take out the forms. And what we said is we have three days,
As lag. This can also be presented
as pouring concrete. And you have take out the form but you can add another
activity referring to the cure of the concrete. To wait for the concrete until its
hardened
enough before you take out the form. And then, you can connect it with
the relationships as we can see here. So, from that aspect, both are still okay, we
can use them both but I do prefer, if my advice for
you is to go with the first one which highlighting the lag. So, however using no
this, so how I explain it to you we can
redraw this with three activities. But if you noticed, I told you I prefer the lag
because
using lag can save a very good number of construction activities from being
added to the president's diagram. For example, if you do have a building,
a high rise building, a multi-story building, and we do have
several pouring activities over concrete. So imagine how many activities of
the word just the cure concrete. You can take it out and just represent
it with an arrow with a number three or two on top of it to highlight
the relationship of just waiting time. And not resources are being used. So, what I
explain about the tradition of
relationship is similar to this one here. If finish to start
relationship with no lag or lag equals zero,
that's the traditional relationship. Adding the lag, will no longer categorize
the relationship as traditional, but still it use the finish
to start type relationship. So any finish to start type
relationship with lag equal one and more still this is not
considered as traditional. As long as this is zero lag, then that's the traditional
relationship what we refers to.