The 2015.e version of Arquimedes has been updated to adapt the quantity import from ArchiCAD for “ArchiCAD® 18 (64-bit)”.
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Arquimedes and Job Control
When Arquimedes opens a database saved with an earlier program version, a dialogue box is displayed where users can choose to open the job in read only mode and create a compressed copy.
As of the 2015.a version, Arquimedes allows for these databases to be opened in read only mode, even if they require an update, and so will not appear modified when opened.
To improve the calculation presentation of the type A charge repercussions, the Details of the repercussion job items window has been improved. This window appears when a type A repercussion exists on a job item and the repercussion amount is double clicked on.
The repercussion expenses due to theoretical consumption (type A repercussions) are obtained in the following way: charges containing supplies whose amounts are to be shared proportionally amongst job items which contain the same type of supplies in their decomposition (direct expenses) should be assigned in chapters. The distribution is proportional to the theoretical quantity of the supply in the job item. The theoretical quantity is calculated as the product of its yield in the decomposition by the quantity executed in the job item.
If the affected job items have direct charges of the same type of supply, the distribution favours those which no not have these direct charges.
An example of this type of charge could be the case of a supply of concrete to be used on site, yet its exact quantity is unknown, and so the root chapter or the various chapters are directly charged, and so the program will share its quantity evenly amongst the job items containing this supply in their decomposition.
The amount executed of each job item in each phase (month) is obtained using the direct and repercussion charges classified in phases (months). In the 2015.a version of Arquimedes and Job Control, two new options have been added to the View option in the Job Control menu:
- Summary of job charges
This displays a table that includes the charged partial and accumulated amounts of the job in execution phases (months) in accordance with the closed certifications. - Summary of job item charges
This displays a table that includes the charged partial amounts of each job item of the job in execution phases (months) in accordance with the closed certifications.
The Earned Value Management (EVM) method is a cost control standard which allows users to follow the expenses and deadlines of a project and provides the information required to make decisions. The model can be applied to a job item, a chapter or the complete job, from the point of view of the Project Management team or the Site Manager.
The EMV model has been taken from chapter 7, Project Cost Management, of the Project Management Book of Knowledge guide (PMBOK) for the American code: ANSI / PMI 99-001-2004.
This model has been implemented in the 2015.a version of Arquimedes so the economic control can be performed by the Site Manager. In future versions, this model will be implemented so it can be applied from the point of view of the Project Management team.
To view the economic control by applying the “EMV” model from the point of view of the Site Manager with Arquimedes, a Gantt chart must be created at job item level to plan the job in phases (months). All these tasks must be linked to cost centres (job items) with updated quantity and study amounts in accordance with the job items in the decomposition tree.
The corresponding charges must be applied to the cost centres and the executed quantities of each job item must be introduced to obtain their execution prices in the corresponding phase designed in accordance with the plan of the project. Additionally, certifications must be closed at the dates corresponding to each planned phase to register both certified quantities and executed amounts. This way, all the information required to obtain the variables of the Earned Value Management EMV) model is obtained.
The button, Configure Gantt chart display options, has been added in the Gantt chart dialogue box (Show > Gantt chart). This button opens a dialogue box with the same name, where users can activate or deactivate the following columns: duration of the task, start and end dates of the task and value of the tasks, so they can be viewed in the chart.
A new option has been implemented: The one which occupies the position given by the variable, located in the Attributes of image type object dialogue box of the Report template editor (File > Print > Print report > Select a template with graphical concepts –for example Price justification annex in the Images group- > Edit template button > click on a drawing type object using the right mouse button and select, from the menu that appears, Edit object).
This option allows for the selection of a whole variable (which must previously be created – Data menu of the Reports template editor > Template variables), that will contain the index of the drawing to be printed. The value of the variable is evaluated before proceeding to print the zone containing the drawing type object, so the image that occupies the order number to which the variable refers to can be printed.
New buttons have been added in the Graphical information of the concept dialogue box (select the code of a concept or the icon representing the concept in the Decomposition tree window > press the graphical information of the concept icon located in the top left-hand corner of the screen). These buttons are used to move one place up or down from the selected element and so help users to organise the graphical information that a concept (chapter, job unit...) may have.
The following report templates have been implemented:
- Multi-language templates:
- Valuation report with indication of the partial certification of each job item
Template file: pl_00229.pla
Type: Certification
Within this template, the certified quantity lines are identified in the job items with their corresponding closed certification.
- Valuation report with indication of the partial certification of each job item
- Valuation report summary
Template file: pl_00230.pla
Type: Summary certif.
Prints the valuation report summary. - Templates in Portuguese for Brazil:
- Curva ABC de materiais
Template file: pl_br002.pla
Type: ZG Brasil - Orçamento – Planilha Mo+Mat 6 colunas
Template file: pl_br004.pla
Type: ZG Brasil - Orçamento com Quantidades por insumo
Template file: pl_br003.pla
Type: ZG Brasil - Orçamento de materiais e mão de obra
Template file: pl_br001.pla
Type: ZG Brasil - Templates in French
- Devis estimatif
Template file: pl_afrf001.pla
Type: ZG Afrique Francophone
Two new options have been implemented in the contextual menu that appears in the “Decomposition tree” window when a concept is selected using the right mouse button: Change unit price to auxiliary item and Change the nature of the concept.
These options simplify the creation process of a bill of quantities or a price database by reusing existing concepts and adapting their nature or changing them to auxiliary prices if necessary. As of previous versions, a job unit with decomposition can be changed to a unit concept using the option Delete the decomposition of the concept.
To help organise the concepts at the same level, new options have been included in the contextual menu of the “Decomposition tree” window, which are used to move the selected concept upwards or downwards.
A new option has been implemented for when users wish to obtain a new concept as a duplicate of another existing concept: Paste duplicate, included in the contextual menu that appears by right clicking with the mouse button on the original concept. This option appears if the original concept has been copied previously (right click with the mouse button on the concept to be duplicated > Copy).
Once the Paste duplicate option has been selected, the Duplicate of the concept dialogue box appears, where the program proposes a new code for which users can then modify the measurement units, date, summary and description of the original concept. The quantity of the original concept is not copied during the duplication process.
