Life Cycle Event Construction Equipment

The following controls are located on the Input -> Life Cycle Page.

This page shows the eLCAP-generated pieces of equipment and times of operation for all activities for the selected event; it also allows a user to manually add and delete equipment.

When an activity is defined and saved, eLCAP will generate a default material to be used (e.g., a specific kind of HMA when adding an HMA layer) and a list of the construction equipment necessary to implement the activity. eLCAP will also compute the quantities of material using the project limits (post mile start/end and number of lanes), the cross section defined on the Project Information page, and the thickness (add layer or remove material) specified for the activity. eLCAP will also provide time estimates for each piece of construction equipment. The default material and the computed material quantities and equipment time estimates may be edited.

You may delete any or all of the items generated for an activity. In addition, you can manually add materials and equipment. In fact, you can skip defining any activities at all and directly add materials and their associated quantities, and equipment and its associated times of operation. But in most cases, defining activities for an event is more efficient than manually building lists of materials and equipment.

Clicking the links in the Source Name column will display a form page with the data for the item. For example, if you click the “Asphalt Paver” in the Source Name column below a form page will be displayed. Listed on that form page will be all the input flows and their associated quantities needed to produce 1 unit of time for the paver. If the paver is an eLCAP library equipment, no changes can be made to it, but if the paver is a user-defined/custom paver, changes can be made.

The following discusses each control associated with adding a piece of construction equipment for an event. Each row in the grid is a single piece of equipment, for the selected event.

1.This control list the types of a equipment, e.g., Light Tower, Paver, Roller, etc.

2.This control lists the specific equipment for an equipment type. Clicking the name of the specific piece of equipment will bring up form showing the flows that go into the equipment.

3.The value in this column is generated by eLCAP to assist in relating which activity generated a particular piece of equipment.

4.The value in the column is generated by eLCAP when a piece of equipment is generated when adding an activity.

5.Supply a value for time of operation.

6.Supply the unit for the time of operation.

7.Operations to be applied to the activity (row): Add, Delete, Insert, Cancel and Save.

8.This button is used to add a piece of equipment to the end of the bottom of the list.

The question mark in the blue circle in the upper-right of the control group allows you to get help on the controls (this topic).

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