PLANNING AND SCHEDULING OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING USING MICROSOFT PROJECT

Abstract

The term construction management is the process of organizing and managing resources such that the project is completed within the defined scope, quality, time and cost factors. A project is a temporary and single attempt undertaken to create a unique product or service, which provides beneficial change or added value. The processes and operations of the system of being a short-term and single undertaking contrast with the permanent or semi-permanent ongoing functional work to create the same product or service over and over again. The management of these two types of works is often very different and also requires varying technical skills and philosophy, hence requiring the development of construction management. The object of the present work is to study the scheduling techniques and construction sequence of work for multistorey buildings and to perform the application of Microsoft project software in planning and scheduling of a RCC building construction. To achieve the above objectives a hypothetical RCC residential G+5 building is considered. The complete planning and scheduling of this building is studied by traditional method used by Architects, Engineers and contractors and is compared by modern software method. For this approach Microsoft project software is used for planning and scheduling the RCC building. Observation shows that Microsoft project software serves as an effective tool for generating Gantt chart for the schedule of a construction project and provides the minimum duration of construction time by schedule crunching and project crashing methods in software. Present work presents good information about the application of Microsoft project software for the planning and scheduling of building construction.