Site Schedule Management
Update the construction site schedule
Without AI
- Compiler les infos chantier30 min
- Recalculer le planning à la main1 h 30
- Rédiger la note de diffusion30 min
2 h 30
With AI
- Compiler les infos20 min
- Recalcul assisté15 min
- Note générée puis relue10 min
45 min
Why this use case
Un planning de chantier bouge en permanence : un retard de livraison, une entreprise absente, une semaine de pluie, et c'est toute la suite qui doit être recalculée. Fait à la main, ce recalcul est long et le risque d'erreur en cascade est réel.
L'IA ne remplace pas ton jugement sur les priorités du chantier, mais elle est rapide et méthodique pour recalculer un chemin critique et proposer de nouvelles dates cohérentes — à toi de vérifier et de trancher les cas limites.
Process steps
Gather site progress and hazards
Collecte · 15 minDaily site reports, weather, delays, and any company's unavailability.
Validate and distribute
Validation · 5 minCheck the new dates against real constraints (deliveries, availability), then send to the companies.
Prompts
Tools used
Claude
Steps 2 and 3Steps 2 and 3 · Analysis, update
Key takeaway : Give it the full current schedule, not a summary — a partial view produces a wrong critical path.
Excel
Step 3Step 3 · Schedule file
Key takeaway : Keep the master file as the single source of truth — the AI never edits it directly.
Limitations
It doesn't know implicit contractual constraints
Penalty clauses or informal agreements between companies aren't visible to the AI — verify them yourself.
A complex critical path with hidden dependencies can be miscalculated
Sanity-check the proposed critical path against your own knowledge of the site before validating.
It doesn't replace the company's own validation before distribution
Always have the impacted company confirm the new dates work for them.
Wrong input progress data gives a wrong schedule
The recalculation is only as reliable as the progress data you fed it.
