It eliminates the typical speculation about when construction events that are affected by weather can take place. Weather Expert gives users the ability to address the individual activities that are affected by weather and assign each a threshold sensitivity to weather instead of a blanket, randomly defined weather calendar. Using data from the NCDC to track both potential and actual effects of weather conditions in almost 300 major cities across the United States, Weather Expert lets users calculate the effects of lost working days for the particular project and adjust CPM schedules to minimize the effects of lost time and justify needed time extensions. Effective as a stand-alone application, Weather Expert interfaces readily with scheduling software like P3 and SureTrak and increases the power and effectiveness of existing applications by enabling schedulers to predict and evaluate the likely effects of inclement weather. Project planning software becomes much more powerful and effective thanks to the precise, location-specific information and an unprecedented degree of control that Weather Expert provides.
Time is money, and weather affects time.
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