Construction Planning and Scheduling [Civil Department]

Construction Planning and Scheduling [Civil Department]

Construction Planning and Scheduling

CONSTRUCTION PLANNING

1. Basic Concepts in the Development of Construction Plans
2. Choice of Technology and Construction Method
3. Civil Construction Planning: Defining Work Tasks
4. Task Definition for a Road Building Project
5. Defining Precedence Relationships Among Activities
6. Precedence Definition for Site Preparation and Foundation Work
7. Estimating Activity Durations
8. Estimating Resource Requirements for Work Activities
9. Pouring Concrete Slabs
10. Resource Requirements for Block Foundations
11. Civil Construction Planning: Coding Systems
12. Important Question And Answer: civil - Civil - Construction Planning

SCHEDULING PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES

1. Relevance of Construction Schedules
2. Civil: The Critical Path Method
3. Calculations for Critical Path Scheduling
4. Activity Float and Schedules
5. Critical path for a fabrication project
6. Presenting Project Schedules
7. Critical Path Scheduling for Activity-on-Node and with Leads, Lags, and Windows
8. Calculations for Scheduling with Leads, Lags and Windows
9. Resource Oriented Scheduling
10. A Reservation System and Heuristic Resource Allocation
11. Scheduling with Resource Constraints and Precedence
12. Scheduling with Uncertain Durations
13. Additional resource constraints
14. Use of Advanced Scheduling Techniques
15. Crashing and Time-Cost Tradeoffs
16. Improving the Scheduling Process
17. Important Question And Answer: civil - Civil - Construction Scheduling

COST CONTROL MONITORING AND ACCOUNTING

1. The Cost Control Problem
2. The Project Budget
3. Forecasting for Activity Cost Control
4. Financial Accounting Systems and Cost Accounts
5. Control of Project Cash Flows
6. Schedule Control
7. Schedule and Budget Updates
8. Relating Cost and Schedule Information
9. Important Question And Answer: Civil - Construction Planning - Cost Control, Monitoring and Accounting

QUALITY CONTROL AND SAFETY DURING CONSTRUCTION

1. Quality and Safety Concerns in Construction
2. Organizing for Quality and Safety
3. Work and Material Specifications
4. Total Quality Control
5. Quality Control by Statistical Methods
6. Statistical Quality Control with Sampling by Attributes
7. Statistical Quality Control with Sampling by Variables
8. Civil Construction: Safety
9. Important Question And Answer: Civil - Quality Control and Safety during Construction

ORGANIZATION AND USE OF PROJECT INFORMATION

1. Types of Project Information
2. Accuracy and Use of Information
3. Computerized Organization and Use of Information
4. Organizing Information in Databases
5. Relational Model of Databases
6. Some Conceptual Models of Databases
7. Centralized Database Management Systems
8. Databases and Applications Programs
9. Information Transfer and Flow
10. Important Question And Answer: Civil Construction Planning And Scheduling - Organization and Use of Project Information