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Cost and Time Analysis: Time Reduction
753
TIME REDUCTION
753.1
ADVANTAGE OF THE PROTOTYPE DESIGN
If all system characteristics are fully exploited for time reduction within the
current schedule for obtaining funds, there are two main benefits:
1. Master planning and preliminary design may be started later than
normal for purposes of obtaining design funds in a given year, and
detailed designs and contract documents can get a later start for
purposes of releasing construction money.
2. As much as six months may be saved during construction.
753.2
ADVANTAGES OF SPECIAL FUNDING
A much more significant time saving can be realized if design and
construction funds are released earlier than the present schedule allows.
Since such funds are normally available only at the beginning of a fiscal
year, the schedule may be most readily altered, if at all, in one year
increments. For example, if both design and construction money could be
obtained one year early, and six months are saved during construction,
the present six-year minimum schedule would be reduced by eighteen
months.
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