TYBTech CIVIL

Subject – CE 17019 – Construction Management

Construction Projects
 Involve varying manpower and their duration
 Each one of them is unique in nature
 A single unit of one organization
 Organization with Joint Ventures and Partnering

Importance of Construction and Construction Industry

 Socio-economic development
 Development of building material industry, construction equipment industry
 Impact on employment, income and growth in GDP
 Depicts the health of economy of the country

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Syllabus
Unit I: Time Management [7 Hrs]
Introduction, steps in Project Management – work break down structure,
Bar Chart, Mile stone chart, Gantt Chart, Activity On Arrow and
Activity On node.
Introduction to PERT: Concept of probability, normal and Beta
Distribution, Central limit theorem. Time estimates and calculations of
project duration, critical path, slack, probability of project completion.
Unit II: Network Analysis [7 Hrs]
Precedence network, Critical Path Method (CPM): Introduction, Time
estimates, floats, critical path, Network compression – Least Cost and
optimum duration, Updating of networks– needs, steps, project duration,
calculation for updated network.

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Unit III: Resource Management [7Hrs]
Human Resource allocation – smoothening and levelling, Material
Management- definition by international federation of purchasing and
material management. Objectives, Role Functions, Qualities of material
manager Material forecasting. Inventory Control- Necessity, Techniques such
as ABC, EOQ, HML, VED, SDE, etc. MUSIC-3drole, lead-time, safety
stocks, Material Evaluation using differential indices.

Unit IV: Financial Management [7 Hrs]

Introduction to Engineering economics, importance, demand and supply,
types of costs, Types of interest such as – simple, compound, continuous,
effective. Value of Money – time and equivalence, tangible and intangible
factors, introduction to inflation. Interest factors – Uniform series factors –
derivations.

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Unit V: Economic Analysis [6 Hrs]
Economic comparisons, Discounting methods: Present worth method,
equivalent annual cost method, capitalized cost method, net present
value, and internal rate of return.

Unit VI: Miscellaneous [6 Hrs]

Site layout, Factors affecting, Typical layout, few major construction
projects, Safety Engineering, Accident cost, IFR, ISR, injury sources
and causes, Effective safety programmes occupational health hazards,
Personal protective equipment, Preparation of safety programmes for
construction works, Laws related to construction industry.

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Textbooks:
• Jha K. N. “Construction Project Management” Pearsons Publication.
• Sengupta, B. and Guha H. “Construction Management and Planning”,
Tata McGraw Hill Publication.
• Srinath L.S. “PERT &CPM: Principles and Applications”, Affiliated
East West Press, Delhi
• B. C. Punmia, “Project Planning and Control with PERT and CPM”,
Laxmi Publications (P) Ltd.

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Project Management
Why to learn Project Management study?
Is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to a broad range
of activities to meet the requirement of the particular project.
Function of Project Management
Define the requirement of work, establishing the extent of work, monitoring
the progress of work and adjusting deviations from the plan

Objectives of Project (Big or Small)

i) The project should be completed with a minimum of elapsed time
ii) It should use available manpower, technical resources & others without
delay
iii) It should be completed with a minimum of capital investment without
delay
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Why Construction Project Management?
The goal of construction projects –
a) building a project on time, b) within budget, c) with stated quality
standards, d) and in a safe environment.
Today, there are many excellent contractors who perform the above goals
applied scientific principles in practice, and not rely solely on experience
gained at the project site.

For completion of project, two basic things are required

1) Material resources
2) Manpower/Human resources – achieved higher level of productivity
through talents, skills, experience
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 Project Time Management Processes
• Activity definition: identifying the specific activities/tasks that the project
team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project
deliverables
• Activity sequencing: identifying and documenting the relationships
between project activities
• Activity resource estimating: estimating how many resources a project
team should use to perform project activities
• Activity duration estimating: estimating the number of work periods that
are needed to complete individual activities
• Schedule development: analyzing activity sequences, activity resource
estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule
• Schedule control: controlling and managing changes to the project
schedule
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 Basic Functions of Management (Phases/Stages/Steps)
to achieve the above objectives, project management involves the following three phases in its life cycle
1. Project planning - undertaken before the actual project starts
(Pre Project Phase)
2. Project scheduling - undertaken before the actual project starts
(Pre Project Phase)
3. Project controlling - undertaken during the execution of project
(Project Phase)
4. Post Project Phase – undertaken after transferred from contractors to the owners

Three sub-phases under Pre-Project Phase

1) Initiation or Idea Phase – To identify all possible projects based on the examination of needs and the
possible options
2) Project Concepts – To identify the benefits for the society, organization or city
3) Feasibility – To identify the analytically appraise project concepts considering the needs of the society,
organization or city. With this information, it should be able to decide whether or not to go ahead with
the project concept proposed.

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1. Project Planning
• Defining objectives of the project
• Listing of the tasks or jobs or activities that must be performed to
complete the project scope of work.
• Studying the users requirements
• Defining the technical specifications
• Determine gross requirements for material
• Studying how to secure funds to finance the project
• Equipment, manpower and preparing estimates of project costs
• Duration for the various jobs or activities
• To depict logic of activities using standard symbols and conventions.
• to identify the critical path and compute the project completion time.
• Advising members of the task force – consultant, engineering
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2. Project Scheduling
• Assigning the starting and completion dates to each activities of the
work in such a manner that the whole project proceeds in a logical
sequence and in an orderly and systematic manner.

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3. Project Controlling
( Project Phase/Implementation/realization/materialization phase)

Reviewing the difference between the schedule and actual performance

once the project has begun
Five sub-phases :-
1) Basic Design Phase – Activities are carried out by organization,
documentation for tendering, procuring of equipment is prepared
2) Detailed Design Phase – For item rate contract, carry out the detailed
design before tendering process. For lump sum contract, tendering
process can start immediately
3) Tendering Phase – Includes specifications, agreement conditions
4) Construction Phase – Contractor proceeds with the design and drawings.
The progress is closely monitored
5) Completion Phase – Clients issue the completion certificate after all the
works has been checked and found to ne in order
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 WORK-BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE
• WBS represents a task-oriented family tree of activities
• Provides a central organizing concept for the project and serves as a common framework for the
other exercises such as planning, scheduling, cost estimating, budgeting, monitoring, reporting,
directing and controlling the entire project.
• Each task is broken into smaller tasks that can be managed and estimated
• Define task dependencies
• Some tasks must begin at the same time, some must end at the same time and some
cannot start until the other tasks have finished.
• Estimate task durations and cost

• WBS breaks down project into major components (modules).

• Modules are further broken down into subcomponents, components, activities, and finally, into
individual tasks.
• Identifies activities, tasks, resource requirements and relationships between modules and activities.
• Helps avoid duplication of effort.
• Basis for project development, management , schedule resources and modifications.

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Work Breakdown Structure

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Work Breakdown Structure

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 Work Breakdown Structure

WBS for computerized order-processing system project 16

Project Life Cycle

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Project Life Cycle

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