Project Planning and Management in Civil Engineering: Course Syllabus, Lecture notes of Project Management

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Project Planning and Management

K Suryanarayana

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

ANITS

Course Objectives From this course students will learn the

• Role and responsibilities of a project manager
• Importance of project management in civil engineering projects
• Management of resources in construction project
• Understand labour problems and legislation in India

COURSE INTRODUCTION The course revolves around the various activities encountered during the life cycle of a civil engineering project. Project?

• Project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service or result. (AMERICAN National Standard ANSI/PMI99- 001 - 2004) or
• Project is a unique process, consist of a set of coordinated and controlled activities with start and finish dates, undertaken to achieve an objective confirming to specific requirements, including the constraints of time, cost and resource. (ISO10006)

COURSE INTRODUCTION Examples of project : Developing a new product or service Constructing a building or facility Designing a new transportation vehicle Setting up of power plant Creating a software for development project Implementing a new business process

Introduction

• Oldest & largest
• Employment
• Use of large machines and equipment- necessary
• Reduce time of construction, people & materials
• Developed countries – Construction management techniques
• Labour incentive style- consume lot of time, quality issues- time increases, cost of projects
• Construction management methods- Essential feature in modern times.

Types of

construction

• Public construction involves projects funded and overseen by government entities.
• Private construction refers to projects financed and managed by individuals or private companies.
• Public construction is focused on infrastructure development, while private construction is more related to residential and commercial buildings.
• Public construction is subject to more regulations and requirements than private construction.

STAGES IN A PROJECT Concept Planning Designing Execution Operation Decommissioning

Types of project plans

• Time plan
• Cost plan
• Quality plan
• Safety plan
• Manpower plan
• Materials plan
• Equipment plan
• Finance plan

Planning Planning is the most important technique of the management. It means “looking ahead” This is a process requiring the use of

• intellectual facilities,
• imagination,
• foresight and
• sound judgement, To decide in advance as to
• what is to be done,
• how and where it is to be done,
• who will do to and
• how the results are to be evaluated.

PLAN

• Plans are detailed methods, formulated before hand for doing or making something.
• List of goals/targets
• Targeted goals are called as events
• Means of achieving these goals are known as activities
• Activities are those operations of the plan which take time to carry out and on which recourses are expended
• Size of activity- scale of the project

Objectives of planning

The main objective of planning is

to execute the project most

economically both in terms of

money and time.

Effective planning includes the

following factors:

• Proper design of each element of the project.
• Proper selection of equipment and machinery.
• Proper arrangement of repair of equipment and machinery near the site of work to keep them ready to work.
• Procurement of material well in advance.

Steps involved in Planning Decide On a plan Choose An alternative which is not only consistent with its goals and concept but also one that can be accomplished with the evaluated resources Test For consistency with company policy Determine Alternatives- individual courses of action that will allow to accomplish goals. Evaluate Organizations resources- financial, managerial and operational- to carryout activities and to determine what is feasible and what is not Develop Forecast and means of achieving goals Establish Goals and stages intermediate to attain the final target Define The objective of the project in definite words

Steps involved in Planning Arranging future evaluation of effectiveness of the plan Since the goal is to achieve the objective, results, an evaluation at the earliest is possible opportunity is necessary to evaluate cost, time and resources. Fixing the timing of introduction The question of timing is who will do and what will have to be done and an appropriate time schedule is drawn up. Determining derivative plan The above selected plan will form the basic plan from which other plans will develop to support it. Selecting optimum plan An evaluation of the above alternatives is carried out and a best course of action is selected. Ascertaining alternative course of action or plan Based on the above analysis, possible alternatives will be identified. Gen. every situation will have more than 1 course of action Establishing planning premises and constraints Depending on the analysis certain assumptions are made through a process of forecasting. Constraints such as govt. policies are also taken into consideration Securing and analyzing necessary information Adequate information is necessary to determine and establish various relationships and tabulate them for adequate interpretation Crystallizing the opportunity or problem First stage to identify a problem or opportunity in order to formulate realistic objectives