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Netpoint®, Purdue Ect Team
Netpoint®, Purdue Ect Team
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The vast majority of construction scheduling software uses a combination of spreadsheets and Gantt charts for developing and depicting Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules. While this paradigm works for the expert scheduler, it is not conducive to collaboration, and it is prohibitively difficult for non-scheduling experts to understand.
NetPoint® provides a dynamic, visual interface conducive to touch and gestural input. Activities are drawn directly on a time-scale and may be placed on the same row or arranged automatically using codes or the WBS. Such control of the presentation makes it easier to communicate the plan to any type of audience. …
Fluid Isolator, Purdue Ect Team
Fluid Isolator, Purdue Ect Team
ECT Fact Sheets
The reliability of concrete infrastructure is vital to ensuring daily life, as well as commerce, can progress without interruption. From the pavement of interstate highways to the driveways and sidewalks in a local neighborhood, concrete is expensive to install and often even more expensive, and intrusive, when it needs to be replaced. Unfortunately, to maintain functionality in winter climates concrete is heavily exposed to deicing salts. This not only affects the roads, driveways, and sidewalks where salt is applied directly, but many other areas such as parking and residential garages where vehicles (and people) will track salt along with water …
Purdue Ect Report - Fourth Quarter 2016, Purdue Ect Team
Purdue Ect Report - Fourth Quarter 2016, Purdue Ect Team
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Fourth Quarter 2016
This is a quarterly report from the Purdue ECT.