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The document discusses project management and construction scheduling techniques. It describes the project management cycle and key aspects of planning like work breakdown structure, scheduling, and Gantt charts. It also covers traditional non-network and network-based scheduling approaches.

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Project Management Cycle: Construction Scheduling Techniques - Class 3 1

The document discusses project management and construction scheduling techniques. It describes the project management cycle and key aspects of planning like work breakdown structure, scheduling, and Gantt charts. It also covers traditional non-network and network-based scheduling approaches.

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1 AR12-98 CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT. Faculty – Ar.Meenu S.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT C YCLE

Features of a project:

- Unique in nature
- Defined timescale
- Have an approved budget
- Have limited resources
- Involve an element of risk
- Achieve beneficial change

Project management is the skills, tools and processes required to undertake a project
successfully.

PLANNING

To ensure that the activities performed during the execution phase of the project are properly
sequenced, resourced, executed and controlled.

Project plan:

- Work breakdown structure with sequence of activities and tasks


- Activities and tasks are sequenced, resources allocated and detailed project schedule is
formed
- Project plan: key tool for assessing the progress of the project throughout its life cycle

Resource plan:

- Type of resource required


- Quantity of each type of resource required
- Roles, responsibilities and skill sets of all human resources required
- Specification of aa equipment resource required
- Items and quantities of material resource required

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Financial plan:

- To identify total amount of money required for each phase of the project
- Expense schedule is defined to compare the forecast expenditure against the actual
expenditure
- Importance: client will expect project to be delivered within the allocated budget

Quality plan:

- Defines ‘quality’ for the project


- Lists clear quality targets for each deliverable
- Quality assurance plan
- Quality control plan

Risks plan:

- Document all foreseeable project risks, identify actions to prevent such risks and mitigate
the effect should it occur
- Importance: mitigate all possible risks before entering the execution phase of the project

Acceptance plan:

- To gain full acceptance from the customer


- By clarifying completion criteria for each deliverable and providing a schedule for
acceptance reviews

Communication plan:

- To identify how the stakeholders will be kept informed about the progress of the project
- Identifies the type of information to be distributed to the stakeholders, the frequency of
communication, method of communication, person in project team responsible for the
communication of information

Procurement plan:

- Identifies materials and equipment to be acquired from external suppliers, justification for
procurement and schedule of delivery.
- Describes the process of selection of supplier (tendering process) and ordering and
delivery of the products

WORK BREAK DOWN STRU CTURE

- Name given to a technique in project management in which project is broken down into
manageable chunks
- A task oriented tree of activities
- Organizes, defines and graphically displays the total work to be accomplished in order to
achieve the final objectives of a project
- Central organizing concept

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- Framework for planning, scheduling, cost estimating, etc.


- Provides a framework for converting project’s objectives into specific deliverables.

Figure a: WBS for construction of compound wall

CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES

One approach to classify scheduling techniques:

- Traditional (non-network)
- Network based scheduling

GANTT CHART (B AR CHART)

- The bar chart consists of two coordinates, the horizontal represents the time elapsed and
the vertical represents the job or activities performed.
- The jobs or activities are shown in the form of bars
- The length of the bar shows the time the job or that activity takes for completion.
- Traditional management device for planning and scheduling construction projects
- Visual display devices

Advantages of Bar Chart:

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- Information can be passed down with no special knowledge on how to read the chart
- Valuable medium for displaying job schedule information
- Easy and convenient way to monitor job progress and record project advancement

Disadvantages:

- Cannot retain the logical relationship between activities


- Will not provide any information regarding number of activities affected by delay in any
one activity
- Cannot identify critical activities
- Inadequate for project shortening, resource management, and other project
management methods.
- No indication where management attention should be focused

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