CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND SCHEDULING OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING

Abstract

Proper planning and scheduling are very important in construction projects for
reducing and controlling delays of the project. Substantial amounts of time, money, resources
are wasted each year in a construction industry due to improper planning and scheduling. With
globalization the construction projects have become vast and complex. Planning of such
projects requires huge amount of paperwork, which can be reduced with the help of project
planning software. Providing good planning, proper organization, sufficient flow of resources
to a project cannot automatically achieve desired result. A warning mechanism must be present
which can alert the organization about its possible success and failures throughout the project.
The main objectives of this study are to plan, schedule, and track a residential project with help
of primavera software, study the results generated, it is possible to suggest which method is
suitable for the selected residential project. Also, to recommend measures to the organization
for enhancing their project planning skills for similar projects in future.