MAGNET Project: Concepts and keyboard shortcuts

• Actual quantity: Real-time quantity; also known as built quantity

• Bill of quantities: Plan for quantities

• Borrow pit: A quantity that can be used to get material to fills, when there is a deficit of suitable material in cuts

• Bulking: An increase in volume of earthwork after excavation

• Coefficient: If value is set to 1, cut equals fill

• Crushing plant: A quantity that can be used to refine one material to another

• Disposal area: Dumping ground for excess landfill

• Intersection: Connects two locations. Intersections are needed to haul material across locations.

• Milestone: Restricts the available time span for tasks. A milestone marks the end of a piece of work or phase of the project. They are often fixed dates or important dates that you need to be aware of. Set a new milestone by setting Milestone as task type.

• Quantity: A distribution of material of some quantity type in some location

• Quantity type: A type of some material/other amount. Also, facilities (crushing plants, stockpiles, borrow pits, disposal areas) can have dedicated quantity types. Quantity types have suitabilities that define possible hauls between quantity types.

• Resource type: Defines the production rate for a quantity type (units/hour)

• Shrinkage: A decrease in volume of earthwork after deposition and compaction

• Stockpile: Can be used for temporary storing of material to be used in later landfills during a project. Stockpiles are needed if cuts and fills within internal mass haul are scheduled to occur during different periods of time. Stockpiles can either be separate quantities and tasks, or a local stockpile can be enabled on source/destination quantity.

• Usage break: Temporary road blocks that might occur on a construction site. Usage breaks are located on road lines and prevent hauls through them. 

MAGNET Project uses the following keyboard shortcuts: