Workforce planning (WFP) is an iterative, interactive, collaborative planning by operations, construction, engineering, information management, contracting and procurement that aligns engineering and procurement to support field execution and start-up. It improves predictability of cost and schedule based on attainment of productivity and progress targets. Focused on owner and contractor organizations, this presentation highlights considerations for readiness and deployment of WFP, including prerequisites for success, key roles, KPIs, and barriers to implementation.

1. Front End Construction Driven Planning
Drives Capital Effectiveness
Martina Asbury
Capital Projects Advisor

2. What does
look like today?
What are the causes on
?
(typically 37% of a 10‐hour day)
• Incomplete drawings
• Errors on drawings
• Missing Materials
• Restricted access to the
workface
• Scaffolding not in place
• Missing construction
equipment or tools
Every foreman and crew has a
constraint‐free
Installation Work Package (IWP)
that can be completed in one rotation.
Workface Planners at the job site
catch any constraints
before
an IWP is released to the foreman.
Vision
• Productivity can be improved by 25%
• TIC can be reduced by 10%.
Reference: CII Publication 272
Requests For Information,
Rework, Re‐sequence

3. Fundamental change begins and ends with
project leaders and teams.
More of….
• Rigor in planning;
even more rigor in execution
• Culture change supported by work
process change and new roles.
• Software/technology is an enabler,
not a cure.
• Data centric, not Document centric
– Single source of data for all engineering
and material tied to Construction
– Engineering & Procurement data exists
to meet the needs of Workface
Planners and Foreman
• Integrated planning
• Construction is the customer
• Adopt software advances
 3D model developed for use
by construction
 Track & Trace materials
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4. Workface Planning in Engineering
• For each discipline, Engineering
Deliverables (Engineering Work
Packages ‐ EWPs), equipment and bulk
materials (Procurement Work
Packages ‐ PWPs) are linked to a single
discipline
within a specific Construction
Work Area (CWA).
• Each CWP contains about 90 days of
field work.
• CWPs are the basis of Level 3
schedule.
EWP
PWP
CWP

5. Workface Planning in Construction
• In the field, the construction
contractors’ superintendents and
Workface Planners divide each CWP
into multiple Installation Work
Packages (IWPs).
• Each IWP is a quantity of work to be
executed by one foreman and one
crew in one week.
Only constraint‐
free IWPs are issued to the foreman.

6. Translating our vision to reality in the field….
The Superintendent
uses the backlog to
generate a weekly
3 week look ahead
The superintendent and Workface Planners The superintendent and Workface Planners
develop and maintain a four week backlog
of constraint‐free IWPs.
Each IWP is issued to the Foreman
one week in advance of start of work
The Foreman records
daily progress and
completes the work in
the allocated time.
All disciplines
collaborate in
weekly delay
mitigation
solutions.

7. Necessary Enablers
• Owner/Operators drive and
enable
• Develop the 3D model for use
by construction
• Track & Trace materials
• New roles
– Advance Work Packaging (AWP)
Champion
– Workface Planning Coordinator
(“keeper” of CWPs)
– Workface Planners
(“keeper” of IWPs)
• Single set of data that
populates engineering
deliverables, materials
management system, project
controls, Inspection Test
Packages, Earned Value
Reporting, etc.
• New procedures
– AWP Procedure
– Workface Planning Information
Management Procedure
– Workface Planning Procedure

8. Yogi Berra once said,
“When you come to a fork in
the road, it’s important that
you take it.”
Martina Asbury
Capital Projects Advisor

9. Supplemental Slides

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CWPs are the foundation building blocks of
front end planning (Level 3 schedule basis).
Not the current
practice:
Define and
sequence
Construction
Work Packages
in early FEL

11. Metrics
• HSE leading and lagging
indicators
• Status of IWPs in
pipeline
– In development
– Released
– Complete
– Unforeseen constraint
• IWPs issued 3‐10 day
before start of work
• 4‐8 week backlog of
IWPs for each foreman
and crew
• Non‐Productive Time
• Time on Tools

12. Workface Planner
• Tradesperson who
understands the work
• Experience in field supervision
and execution
• Basic computer skills
• Each superintendent has at
least one planner who is a
direct report.
Ratio planners to field workers is 1 to 50
(varies by complexity of scope)
Ref: Insight‐ WFP
Superintendent
Workface Planner
Foreman
General Foreman
Foreman
Foreman
Foreman

13. Construction productivity in both Europe and the US
declined by more than 20% between 1990 and 2009.