Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Planning
Planning is thus a general term
which is used to encompass the
ideas which are commonly reffered
to as programming, scheduling and
organising.
Client
Principal Consultant
Contractor
Constraint of planning
Budget Consideration
Resources Consideration
Type of Project
Plan work
External information
(production rates,
Head Office
constraints etc.)
Work
Control
Correlation
information
Monitor
Techniques of Scheduling
List of Activities
Bar chart / Gantt Chart
Critical Path Method (CPM)
Precedence Diagram Network (PDM)
PERT (Programme Evaluation & Review
Technique)
Line of Balance Method
Time Chainage Diagram (Mass Haul
Diagram)
Project Scope
Scope statement
Statement of work
9-9
9-10
9-11
Project Scheduling
Steps
Define activities
Sequence activities
Estimate time /duration
Develop schedule
Excavate base
(4d)
Blind base
(2d)
Formwork
(5d)
Reinforcement
(4d)
Concrete
(1d)
9-13
Bar Chart
A bar chart shows the activities of a project and
how they are scheduled in time, by using lines or
bars in proportional in length to the scheduled
duration for the activity.
Provides visual display of project schedule
Gantt Chart / Bar Chart
Linked Bar Chart
Resource Bar Chart
ACTIVITY
Excavate base (4d)
Week 1
TIME (weeks)
Week 2
Week 3
Month
4
10
Activity
Design house
and obtain
financing
Lay foundation
Order and
receive
materials
Build house
Select paint
Select carpet
Finish work
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Month
9-16
Gantt Chart
(Mawdesley, 1997)
Advantages ?
Disadvantages ?
Bar Chart
Advantages & Disadvantages
Advantages :
1.
2.
3.
Simple
Easy to make
Easy to understand, as it provides visual display of project
schedule
Disadvantages :
1.
2.
Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6 Month 7 Month 8 Month 9 Month 10
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2.
3.
4.
5.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
2.
3.
4.
5.
1. Foundation
2. Wall
3. Windows & Doors
4. Roof
5. Finishing (tiles, painting
walls, etc)
Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6 Month 7 Month 8 Month 9 Month 10
predecessor
successor
foundation
wall
Finish to Start (FS)
Activity
1. Foundation
2. Wall
3. Windows & Doors
4. Roof
5. Finishing (tiles, painting
walls, etc)
Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6 Month 7 Month 8 Month 9 Month 10
Network
A network is a diagram showing all
activites which are needed to complete a
project and the order which they must
be done.
It therefore comprises two parts :
The activities
Some method of displaying the
technological logic of construction.