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Construction Planning Basics

This document provides an introduction to construction planning. It defines construction planning as understanding what needs to be built and establishing the right methods, equipment, workforce, and resources to complete the work safely, to the required quality standards, and in the most economical way to meet client requirements. The two fundamental activities of any construction process are handling materials and equipment, and positioning them through skilled labor to produce the finished product. Objectives of construction planning include identifying resource needs, coordinating resources, setting progress targets, and addressing issues to establish realistic schedules and cost estimates. Key aspects of planning involve defining requirements, identifying work activities and methods, measuring work quantities, collecting resource output data, determining unit costs, and selecting appropriate construction process models.

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Construction Planning Basics

This document provides an introduction to construction planning. It defines construction planning as understanding what needs to be built and establishing the right methods, equipment, workforce, and resources to complete the work safely, to the required quality standards, and in the most economical way to meet client requirements. The two fundamental activities of any construction process are handling materials and equipment, and positioning them through skilled labor to produce the finished product. Objectives of construction planning include identifying resource needs, coordinating resources, setting progress targets, and addressing issues to establish realistic schedules and cost estimates. Key aspects of planning involve defining requirements, identifying work activities and methods, measuring work quantities, collecting resource output data, determining unit costs, and selecting appropriate construction process models.

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IIntroduction
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i to
Construction Planning

Definition
The planning of construction methods may be
defined as
the understanding what has to be built, then establishing
the right method, the right plant and the right labour force
to carry out the works, safely and to the quality required,
in the most ecomonical way to meet the client
requirements

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The construction process

In any form of construction, the are only two


fundamental activities:
1. the handling of material and equipment
2. by the skill of the work force, the positioning of
the materials and equipment (assembly) to
produce the desired completed whole.

Objectives of construction planning


Identification of resource requirements
Coordination of resources
Setting intermediate control targets
there are many supplementary objectives, such as
identification and solution of construction problems,
establishment of realistic completion date,
estimation of cost
cost, etc
etc

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Basic objectives
Identification of resources
requirements
1.
2.
3.
4.
5
5.
6.
7.

Labour
Plants
Materials
Specialists subcontractors
Fi
Finance
Services
Management and supervision

Coordination of resources (How?)


1.
1
2.
3.
4.
5.

Time required on site


Where (location)
How do they interact?
Continuity
Smoothing

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Setting intermediate control targets


1. To measure progress throughout project life
1
2. Early warning to control
3. To measure cost, time against targets

Construction planning requirements

Project objectives
Identification of work activities and methods
Measurements of work quantity
Resources output data
Unit resource costs
Suitable model of construction process
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Construction planning requirements


Project objectives
Statement of project objectives

Time
Cost
Quality
Safety
Profit
Prestige

Identification of work activities and methods


Methods
Permanent works ) Methods
Temporary works ) Techniques
Logistics
Sequence

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Measurement of work quantity


Bills of quantities
Measured completed works

Value
Productive resource input
Manhours
) Resources that
Machine-hours
) make the building grow

Resource output data

Historical records
consultants
work measurement
estimating constants
experience

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Unit resource cost


Pricing/estimating

Suitable models/techniques of construction


process
Graphical presentation of work programme
Bar chart,
chart CPM etc
etc.

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