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Takt Planning Calculator
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Same trades. Same site. Weeks faster.

Takt planning runs your trades like a train timetable — a steady rhythm of crews flowing zone to zone, instead of stacking and waiting. Put your phase in below and see exactly how much time (and money) a better plan releases.

or load an example:

Takt Inputs

Number of trade crews in the train
Number of zones in the phase
Working days per takt
Turns days into real dates
— days = (Wagons + Zones − 1) × Takt Time
✏️ Name your trades — make this your plan

Optional. Names appear when you hover the diagrams and in your PDF report.

Area & Cost Inputs

— = Zones × Area/Zone
Optional — prices the time you save

The Payoff

The Usual Way vs The Takt Way

The same phase, planned the way most projects plan it: trades pushed into zones before the crew ahead is finished. Red outlines mark crews stacked on top of each other — slower work, constant firefighting, no rhythm.

The usual way — trades stacked, no rhythm

Compare it with your takt plans below: the same trades, the same scope — but every crew always has a free zone, and the whole site moves to one beat.

Your Best Options

We scored every zoning option against speed, flow quality, wasted trade time and your zone-size limits. Here are the three worth looking at — click one to load it into the plan below.

Show every option (the full engineering table)

All 36 zoning options. Click a row to draw it as the “Selected Plan”. The dark cell marks the option matching your current zone count. Hover any column heading for a plain-English definition.

Pick Takt Wagons Takt Zones Takt Time Unrounded Theoretical Low Limit Train Length Takt Time Duration Trade Time Gained Area per Zone Takt Level Realized Flow Potential Efficiency Parametric Value Parametric
Shortest possible durations by takt time

For each takt rhythm, the highest zone count that still covers the work — and the resulting duration. This is the speed limit of your phase.

Takt TimeBest # ZonesDuration

Takt Plan — Current Inputs

Takt Plan — Selected Plan

Each colour is one trade crew flowing through the zones. Rows are zones, columns are working days. Press play and watch the train move.

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Proven methodologyTakt production planning — the flow discipline behind lean manufacturing, applied to construction sites.
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Built by practitionersCreated by Taktically — planners who run this on live projects, not a software vendor.
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Nothing to buyThis is thinking, not a subscription. The maths on this page is yours to keep and challenge.

Take Your Plan With You

This is one phase of one project. Imagine every phase of your programme flowing like this — trades that never wait, handovers you can set your watch by, and finish dates you can defend. That's what we build with our clients.

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