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Span and bearing coordination: Milestones and timeline

Span and bearing coordination: Milestones and timeline. Span and bearing decisions affect truss layout, wall framing, point loads, openings, and the way…

Span and bearing coordination: Milestones and timeline — RiverTruss educational resource

Why this matters

Span and bearing decisions affect truss layout, wall framing, point loads, openings, and the way loads reach the foundation. A credible timeline is built from dependencies and review gates, not from a desired completion date copied into a spreadsheet.

A small bearing or layout mismatch can create a field condition that is expensive to correct and difficult to verify.

A practical framework

  1. confirm clear span and bearing width
  2. coordinate walls, beams, and girder locations
  3. identify concentrated reactions
  4. resolve conflicts before fabrication

Questions to answer

  • Which milestone cannot start until another deliverable is accepted?
  • What review time belongs to a public agency, owner, lender, or supplier?
  • What is the recovery plan if the controlling activity slips?

Common failure modes

  • Showing dates without naming the dependency that makes them possible.
  • Ignoring procurement, review, and decision time.
  • Moving a finish date without showing the cost or scope consequence.

Primary references

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