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The document discusses crashing a construction project network to reduce the project duration. It provides an example network with activity times and costs. It then performs iterations of crashing critical activities in the network based on their cost slopes. This reduces the project duration from the original 18 weeks down to an optimal 16 weeks, while minimizing additional crashing costs. The total crashed project cost is calculated as Rs. 10050. Crashing further in a 4th iteration increases costs without reducing duration, so the 3rd iteration is selected as the optimal solution.

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Crashing of Network: Presented By

The document discusses crashing a construction project network to reduce the project duration. It provides an example network with activity times and costs. It then performs iterations of crashing critical activities in the network based on their cost slopes. This reduces the project duration from the original 18 weeks down to an optimal 16 weeks, while minimizing additional crashing costs. The total crashed project cost is calculated as Rs. 10050. Crashing further in a 4th iteration increases costs without reducing duration, so the 3rd iteration is selected as the optimal solution.

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MANIPUR INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY

CRASHING OF NETWORK
PRESENTED BY:-
SOMAYO VARAM
TEJ TIKENDRA PHAIREMBAM
7TH SEMESTER CIVIL ENGINEERING
SUB.: CTM(CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT)
CONTENTS

• Crashing of Network
• Time-Cost Trade off
• Cost Slope
• Algorithm for Crashing
• Important points
• Example
• Final Conclusion:
• Bibliography
CRASHING OF NETWORK
• Project crashing is the method for shortening the project duration by reducing
the time of one or more critical activities to less than their normal time. Crashing
is achieved by devoting more resources. Thus the cost associated with the project
is increased.

• Objective:
i. To reduce project duration
ii. While minimizing cost of crashing.
TIME-COST TRADE OFF
• In Crashing if cost increases
then time decreases.
• Time and cost are thus
inversely related.
COST SLOPE

• Nt: Normal time


• Nc: Crashing time
• Ct: Cost of activity in Nt.
• Cc: Cost of activity in Nc.

• Cost Slope= 𝐶𝑐−𝑁𝑐


𝑁𝑡−𝐶𝑡
ALGORITHM FOR CRASHING
• Step1> Determine the normal Critical path and identify the critical activities.
• Step2> Calculate cost slope or increment cost per unit time for different activities.
• Step3> Rank activities in ascending order as per their cost slopes.
• Step4> i)Crash activities of critical path as per lowest cost slope first. ii)Calculate the
new direct cost by adding cost of crashing to the normal cost.
• Step5>Since Critical path duration is reduced so other path also become critical. Project
duration can be reduced by simultaneously crashing activities in the parallel critical path.
• Step6>By crashing as per step4 and 5, a point is reached when either no crashing is
possible or crashing does not result in the reduction of project duration.
IMPORTANT POINTS
• Least cost slope activity of the critical path must be dealt with first and so on.
• If more than one critical path is generated after crashing then duration of activities on all
these paths have to be curtailed.
• If time in critical path(say A) lowers below an alternative path (of time say X such that
X>A)after crashing then crashing is done here in such a way that time in critical path is
kept same as X, not below X.
• If crashing a low cost slope activity(say activity D) results in though lowering a single
Critical path time but project time is not lowered then o select common activities or activity
combinations o Find least cost slope among these.
• Sometimes before Critical path other path get crashed. Here the time of crashed path is
the minimum limit of crashing time. Critical paths are crashed down to this time limit.
Example:
Activity Normal tine Normal cost Crash time crash cost
1-2 7 700 4 850
1-3 5 500 3 700
1-4 8 600 5 1200
2-5 9 800 7 1250
3-5 5 700 3 1000
3-6 6 1100 5 1300
4-6 7 1200 5 1450
5-7 2 400 1 500
6-7 3 500 2 850

If the indirect cost per week is Rs. 200, find the optimal crashed project completion time.
Activity Normal tine Normal cost Crash time crash cost Slope
1-2 7 700 4 850 50
1-3 5 500 3 700 100
1-4 8 600 5 1200 200
2-5 9 800 7 1250 225
3-5 5 700 3 1000 150
3-6 6 1100 5 1300 200
4-6 7 1200 5 1450 1250
5-7 2 400 1 500 100
6-7 3 500 2 850 350

Crash cost-normal cost


Where slope =
Normal time- crash time
1st Iteration
9
2 5
2
7 5
5
3 7
1
6
8 3
4 6
7

1-2-5-7=7+9+2=18
1-3-5-7=5+5+2=12
1-3-6-7=5+6+3=14
1-4-6-7=8+7+3=18

Normal project completion time=18

a) Total direct normal cost=6500


b) Indirect cost(200X18)=3600
Thus, total cost = a+b =10100
Crash Limit and Slope
Critical Path Critical Activity Crash Limit Cost Slope
1-2-5-7 1-2 3 50
2-5 2 225
5-7 1 100
1-4-6-7 1-4 3 200
4-6 2 125
6-7 1 350

2nd Iteration
N.B.: total cost=pre total cost + direct cost-
1-2-5-7=6+9+2=17 indirect cost
1-3-5-7=5+5+2=12
1-3-6-7=5+6+3=14
1-4-6-7=8+6+3=17

project completion time=17


total cost=pre total cost + direct cost-indirect cost
=10100+(50+125)-200
=10075

Crash Limit and Slope


Critical Path Critical Activity Crash Limit Cost Slope
1-2-5-7 1-2 2 50
2-5 2 225
5-7 1 100
1-4-6-7 1-4 3 200
4-6 1 125
6-7 1 350

3rd Iteration
1-2-5-7=5+9+2=16 project completion time=16
1-3-5-7=5+5+2=12
1-3-6-7=5+6+3=14 total cost =10075+(50+125)-200
1-4-6-7=8+5+3=16 =10050
Crash Limit and Slope
Critical Path Critical Activity Crash Limit Cost Slope
1-2-5-7 1-2 1 50
2-5 2 225
5-7 1 100
1-4-6-7 1-4 3 200
4-6 0 125
6-7 1 350

4th Iteration
1-2-5-7=4+9+2=15
1-3-5-7=5+5+2=12 project completion time=15
1-3-6-7=5+6+3=14 total cost =10050+(50+200)-200
1-4-6-7=7+5+3=15 =10100
Final Conclusion:

Since the total cost of this iteration is more than that of the previous iteration, stop the
procedure and treat the solution of the previous iteration(3rd iteration) as the best solution for
implementation.
The final crashed project completion time is 16 weeks

corresponding critical paths are 1-2-5-7 & 1-4-6-7


REFERENCE

• 1.CONSTURCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT, KK CHITKARA


• YOUTUBE (KAUSERWISE)
THANK YOU

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