Videos & Blogs on Construction Management
I am involved with Construction Project Planning for past 30 years since starting the work life. Well! Let’s say I started application of theory of planning, scheduling, monitoring & control; into practice 25 years back, when I became the Planning Engineer after 5 years of site works. Application of Logic, Numbers & Calculations, Principles, Procedure, …
Planning to make a Plan: For every project, any deliverable or even for a task one is advised to have a plan. We keep hearing that having a plan in place is like completing 40% of the task. Won’t you agree that even making a plan for the project is also a sub-project/deliverable/task in itself? …
Planning without Productivity Data The planning cell of any project has to go through several stages of Preliminary Planning, Phasing, Zoning, Strategy for Procurement of Material and vendors, Logistics Planning, Strategy for deployment of Plants & Machinery & several such considerations. After all these initial stages, next comes the Decomposition of the Scope of Works …
When do we start planning for a project? Is it possible to prepare a feasibility report, without an idea on the project timelines? How can one estimate project’s viability in terms of IRR, NPV, ROCE etc. without duration estimate? An approximate idea on the timeline of schedule at-least in terms of major milestones or a …