Chapter I Construction Planning & Scheduling Student Ver
Chapter I Construction Planning & Scheduling Student Ver
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
Methods of Course Lectures, Seminar Assignment, Semester Project, Oral Presentation and
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Assessment - Assignment 10%
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- Quiz 15%
- Project 25%
- Final Exam 40%
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
Course Outline
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
Chapter 01
Project planning and scheduling are considered as key and challenging tools in
controlling and monitoring project performance. Execution of a project, operated in
resource-constrained built environment, requires the management of scarce resources;
manpower, materials, money, and machines throughout the life of the project-from
conception to completion. Hence, construction planning and schedule has a crucial role
to play in delivering construction projects on time, to budget, and at the quality
required by the client and other objectives of the project.
Project management entails applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques for
management activities as well as leadership activities. Management activities focus on
the means of meeting project objectives, such as having effective processes, planning,
coordinating, measuring, and monitoring work, among others.
Planning organizes, elaborates, and coordinates project work throughout the project.
The Planning Performance Domain addresses activities and functions associated with
the initial, ongoing, and evolving organization and coordination necessary for
delivering project deliverables and outcomes.
- Estimating
- Scheduling
- Budgeting
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
1.3.1. Planning for project team composition and structure: Planning for project
team composition begins with identifying the skill sets required to
accomplish the project work. This entails evaluating not only the skills, but
also the level of proficiency and years of experience in similar projects
1.3.2. Planning for communication: Communication is the most important factor in
engaging with stakeholders effectively. Planning communication for the
project entails considering the following:
▶ Who needs information?
▶ What information does each stakeholder need?
▶ Why should information be shared with stakeholders?
▶ What is the best way to provide information?
▶ When and how often is information needed?
▶ Who has the information needed?
1.3.3. Planning for physical resources: Physical resources apply to any resource
that is not a person. It can include materials, equipment, software, testing
environments, licenses, and so forth. Planning for physical resources entails
estimating, as well as supply chain, logistics, and management.
Projects with significant physical resources, such as engineering and
construction projects, will need to plan for procurement activities to
acquire the resources.
Planning for physical resources includes taking into account lead time
for delivery, movement, storage, and disposition of materials, as well as
a means to track material inventory from arrival on site to delivery of
an integrated product. Planning begins with understanding the
business case, stakeholder requirements, and the project and product
scope. Product scope is the features and functions that characterize a
product, service, or result. Project scope is the work performed to
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
A predictive approach is useful when the project and product requirements can be
defined, collected, and analyzed at the start of the project. This may also be referred to
as a waterfall approach.
The scope, schedule, cost, resource needs, and risks can be well defined in the early
phases of the project life cycle, and they are relatively stable. This development
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
approach allows the project team to reduce the level of uncertainty early in the project
and do much of the planning up front.
Predictive planning approaches start with the high-level project deliverables up front
and decompose them into more detail. This approach can employ a scope statement
and/or a work breakdown structure (WBS) to decompose the scope into lower levels of
detail.
Adaptive approaches are useful when requirements are subject to a high level of
uncertainty and volatility and are likely to change throughout the project. A clear vision
is established at the start of the project, and the initial known requirements are refined,
detailed, changed, or replaced in accordance with user feedback, the environment, or
unexpected events.
Adaptive approaches use iterative and incremental approaches. While agility is a wide
mindset that is broader than a development framework, agile approaches can be
considered adaptive. Some agile approaches entail iterations that are 1 to 2 weeks in
duration with a demonstration of the accomplishments at the end of each iteration. The
project team is very engaged with the planning for each iteration. The project team will
determine the scope they can achieve based on a prioritized backlog, estimate the work
involved, and work collaboratively throughout the iteration to develop the scope.
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
The life cycle selected impacts the way in which planning is undertaken. Predictive life
cycles undertake the bulk of the planning up front and then continue to replan by using
rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration. Plans are also updated as threats
and opportunities materialize.
Planning begins with understanding the business case, stakeholder requirements, and
the project and product scope. Product scope is the features and functions that
characterize a product, service, or result. Project scope is the work performed to deliver
a product, service, or result with the specified features and functions.
Effective execution of the planning performance domain results in the following desired
outcome:
Other benefits
Project plan clearly defines project scope of work. It breaks down project
objectives into clear, identifiable, quantifiable, attainable and verifiable goals
which are assigned to individuals and responsibility centers for accomplishment.
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
Project plan aids the management in performing its functions efficiently and
effectively.
Project plan forms the basis of a project operations and directions and shows
how the project is to be run. It also specifies the committed future course of
actions on the basis of current decision made with available knowledge of future.
Project plan identifies critical activities, thus enabling the managing of project by
exception.
Project plan provides the yard-stick for measuring progress and evaluating
resources performances
project plan has build in flexibility in the form of floats, to navigate changes in
the planned path for meeting fast changing environment.
1.8. Scheduling
▶ Step 3. Estimate the effort, duration, people, and physical resources required to
complete the activities.
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
Schedule validates time objective work schedule shows the planned sequence
of activities, data-wise.
Schedule enables forecasting of input resources and earned value to indicate the
pattern of requirement and the financial state of the project in terms of
investment, expenditure, output and income.
1. The vast number of activities and their durations that need to be scheduled such
as procurement and installation of equipment and materials, contract submittals,
approvals, and performance inspections, procurement bidding process, and
contract execution;
2. Types of relationship between activities with leads and lags and complex
interrelationships between work sequences and material interfaces;
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
The budget for the new international arrivals facility being built at Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport in Seattle, Washington, USA was originally estimated at US$300
million in 2013. But as the project unfolded, the estimated budget needed to complete
the work swelled to US$608 million in 2015—and then to US$968 million by September
2018.
That final estimate came after port commissioners appointed an independent panel to
assess the project's progress and generate a final budget and schedule estimate. Scope
creep and construction costs contributed to the soaring project budget and schedule, the
panel found, but estimation errors were also to blame. The findings put the final budget
at more than three times the initial estimate and added three months to the project
schedule—one the panel dubbed ―achievable but aggressive.‖
Seattle is hardly the only recent high-profile estimation error. The budget for the
Mountain Valley Pipeline project spanning the U.S. states of West Virginia and Virginia
now is estimated at US$4.6 billion. This is nearly US$1 billion over the original estimate,
the joint venture of energy companies managing the project announced in September.
“There can be real business pressure on the project manager to make cheaper, faster estimates,”
says Alfred Chiu, project manager, S&B Engineers and Constructors, Houston, Texas, USA.
“And the power of positive thinking can sometimes have a very strong hold.”
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC
Construction Planning & Scheduling (CoTM4211) Lecture note
“An estimate built on garbage inputs will be garbage,” he says. “And you might not know that
until you're further into the project.”
One of the major concerns with construction managers is the total control that projects
seem to take over the manager’s life. It is not uncommon for project managers to find
themselves consumed by a project. Many work 60 to 80 hours per week, with 65 to 70
hours the standard. These long hours, in addition to the associated pressures of meeting
the project objectives, tend to take their toll on managers. This type of lifestyle, if it
continues over several years, threatens not only the personal health of the manager but
also the manager’s relationship with his or her family.
As a construction manager, what could you do to balance not only your construction
projects but also your personal life, outside of the job site?
3. What events should occur before a comprehensive project plan can be created?
Chapter 01: Basics of construction planning & scheduling By Muluken Tsehayneh, EiABC