Planning & Scheduling
Planning & Scheduling
Planning & Scheduling
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ABSTRACT: Success of every construction project is 4. Project requirement: Project should meet client’s
governed by two vital components; cost and time. The main requirement without affecting the quality, budget,
aim of project management is to complete the project within précised scope and should be completed and
specified time, cost and scope along with assured quality. delivered on specified time.
Adopting conventional execution practices, it is difficult to
constantly measure the progress of work, evaluate plans, 1.1 Project Management in construction
track the cost and time as well as adopt corrective measures
A project generally starts at the right pace but as it
wherever required. Planning effectively by systematic
proceed, activities gets off the schedule due to various
application of project management skills and techniques has
tribulations like; improper planning, uncertainties, non
become the need of the hour in order to overcome the
delivery of resources on time, execution delays,
problems faced by adopting conventional construction
environmental factors and so on, which directly impacts
execution practices.
on cost.
There are various tools and techniques available for
Thus, application of project management in construction
optimizing the construction procedure to prevent cost and
aims to accomplish the precise goals by virtue of perfect
time overruns. The monitoring tools adopted during
planning, scheduling, executing, monitoring as well as
construction plays a significant role for thriving completion
controlling time, finances and utilizing all resources
of project on time and within estimated budget.
effectively. It is an interconnected group of processes
In this study, an effort is made to estimate the overall cost which directs the project team to accomplish a successful
and time required to execute a multi-storeyed residential project within specified cost as well as time.
building by use of conventional construction execution
practices and by adopting project management techniques 1.2 Project Management Software
to compare the results for justification.
Project management can be implemented to projects
Keywords: Project Management, Microsoft Project (MSP), achieved via software like Microsoft Project and
conventional construction execution, cost optimization, Primavera, which are applications developed to help
time optimization and resource optimization; manage projects and other works effectively. The
applications are able to perform the following:
1. INTRODUCTION
a) Develop and schedule a plan
Project management involves the application of various b) Create an appropriate standard base calendar or
knowledge areas, tools and skills along with numerous based upon usage working calendar
techniques to congregate project requirements like c) Assigning relationships between scheduled
duration and cost. activities
The factors that affect project management are: d) Define resources required for the project
1. Project cost: Projects must be within the planned e) Helps to level and smooth out the resources
budget. between activities
f) Helps to update and track work progress regularly
2. Project time: Project must be delivered on specified
time. g) Performs earned value analysis
h) Allows to incorporate revisions and reanalyzes the
3. Project scope: Project must be within précised scope data
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4.2 Plan B- Project management approach: Fig- 2: Planning and scheduling for project management
approach- (Plan B).
The data obtained from the construction site along with
Plan-A: Conventional execution approach, was analyzed
and a plan was prepared again in MS Project with the
application of project management skills and techniques,
to get the clear picture of the duration and cost for the
construction of the building.
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