sLooP©

sLooP

schedule Loop Planner

sLooP is a software for planning and scheduling repetitive units of linear projects as highways, pipelines, tunnels, and high-‎rise buildings. It applies critical path method (CPM) and line of balance (LOB) scheduling techniques together to ‎construction projects that comprise repetitive similar units. This software is spreadsheet-based (Microsoft Excel), thus it can be used on PC, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

Features of sLooP©

• It applies 2-scheduiling methods (1) CPM and (2) LOB in order to reduce duration of repetitive units via overlapping these units on the ‎schedule with maintaining physical dependency of activities.
• Planning covers number of crews, overtime, and costs.
• 100 repetitive units each comprises up to 26 activities.
• 2 reports (on-screen and pdf formats) present start and finish timings; single and cumulative costs; and ordinal number of crew for every repetitive unit.
• LOB chart shows crews ordinal numbers in addition to timings of activities.