Start-start logic
The CIOB Planning Protocol 2021 (CIOB PP21), a technical information sheet published by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) in February 2021, defines start-start logic as: ‘Logic between activities / milestones which specifies the sequence that the predecessor activity is to start at the same time that the successor activity is to start.’
See also: Start-finish logic and Finish-start logic.
--CIOB
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