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.