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Yong-Cheol Yang Chan-Jung Park
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Jaejun Kim
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aper presents the methods used and a case study of a project management system PMS to manage daily progress in the construction of
e apartment buildings in South Korea. A dilemma encountered in previous research in the field of progress management is that efforts to
ce data accuracy cause the data handling workload to soar. A main feature of the method presented by the writers for calculating the
ed cost work schedule is to allocate the project budget into control attributes, activities, and tasks that are defined in a work-packaging
according to daily weight value. The method offers enhanced practicability by reducing data- handling workloads while not sacrificing the
le of progress management. The work-packaging model is designed to enable project managers to acquire and process data for progress
ement at various levels of detail. The budgeted cost of work performed is measured daily at the tasks level using the earning percentage
m daily work reports. The implementation of PMS focuses on functions to distribute the budget according to daily weight values and acquire
ning percentage from the daily work report. The PMS was applied to a construction project of 54 apartment buildings in South Korea. The
tudy of its use shows that company headquarters and managers in the field can acquire data for progress management without additional
andling workloads, and can analyze the progress daily at various levels of detail.
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Abstract: This paper presents the methods used and a case study of a project management system 共PMS兲 to manage daily progress
construction of multiple apartment buildings in South Korea. A dilemma encountered in previous research in the field of pro
management is that efforts to enhance data accuracy cause the data handling workload to soar. A main feature of the method present
the writers for calculating the budgeted cost work schedule is to allocate the project budget into control attributes, activities, and task
are defined in a work-packaging model, according to daily weight value. The method offers enhanced practicability by reducing
handling workloads while not sacrificing the rationale of progress management. The work-packaging model is designed to enable p
managers to acquire and process data for progress management at various levels of detail. The budgeted cost of work perform
measured daily at the tasks level using the earning percentage rate from daily work reports. The implementation of PMS focus
functions to distribute the budget according to daily weight values and acquire the earning percentage from the daily work report
PMS was applied to a construction project of 54 apartment buildings in South Korea. The case study of its use shows that com
headquarters and managers in the field can acquire data for progress management without additional data-handling workloads, an
analyze the progress daily at various levels of detail.
DOI: 10.1061/共ASCE兲0733-9364共2007兲133:3共242兲
CE Database subject headings: Buildings, residential; Scheduling; Information systems; Korea; Budgets; Construction manage
Introduction 1991; Barrie and Paulson 1992; Carr 1993兲. The general pr
for managing construction progress is to define tasks at the lo
In South Korea, approximately 500,000 residential dwellings are level of detail, to allocate resources to these tasks, and to calc
constructed annually, and 90% of these 共450,000 residences兲 are the budgeted cost of work scheduled 共BCWS兲 by multiplyin
apartments 共Ministry of Construction and Transportation 2005兲. quantity of resources for tasks by the unit prices of resources
Apartment developments tend to be planned as blocks consisting budgeted cost of work performed 共BCWP兲 is measured by u
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ods from previous research and current practices for controlling Barrie and Paulson 共1992兲 presented a method to calc
the progress of multiple apartment buildings construction projects progress which multiplies the percent of completed work item
in South Korea are likely to present a solution for practicability. the weighted value of manpower. The method uses the wei
This paper describes a new method and reviews project man- value of manpower instead of costs because the latter can ch
agement systems 共PMS兲 currently in use for managing the over time, causing the monitored target to become unclear.
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by theoretical rationale in the field of
progress management. Control refers to the determination of whether a project has
as intended, by calculating variances between actual cos
progress and planned budgets and schedules 共Carr 1993
Theories on Progress Management progress control, base measures are produced directly from
that measure actual progressions. In general, base measure
BCWS, BCWP, actual cost of work performed 共ACWP兲, b
Progress is measured by analyzing schedule and cost data, which
at completion 共BAC兲, and estimate at completion 共EAC兲.
are interrelated and time dependent. For this reason, the indi-
these base measures, variances are used as decision criteri
vidual tracking of either is not useful to construction managers.
interpretation indicators for judging the current status of a pr
An integrated approach which enables them to acquire, store, and
Cost performance index 共CPI =BCWP / ACWP兲, sch
present information in a timely manner 共Rasdorf and Abudayyeh
performance index 共SPI =BCWP / BCWS兲, cost var
1991兲, has been continuously studied by researchers. The follow-
共CV =BCWP-ACWP兲, schedule variance 共SV = BCWP-BC
ing subsections present a theoretical background for progress
and variance at completion 共VAC =BAC-EAC兲 are derived
measurement and the integration of cost and schedule control.
sures. Concerns have developed as to the practicability and
racy of these concepts implemented in real projects.
Measurement of Work Progress Practicability depends on the level of accounting at whic
budgeting and scheduling are performed and mechanisms w
The weighted percent complete 共WPC兲 method 共Clark and Loren- connect the two. These attributes are normally defined from
zoni 1978兲 is widely used to determine work progress of a con- work breakdown structure 共WBS兲. However, the breakdow
struction project. The computation steps of the WPC method are work items frequently does not match the breakdown of cost
as follows: 共1兲 to assess the progress 共percent of completion兲 of a and thus their integrated control cannot be implemented 共Tei
work item 共e.g., a footing兲; and 共2兲 to multiply the percent com- 1987兲. As a solution, Teicholz 共1987兲 presented a map
pleted by the weight factor 共WF兲 to determine the WPC for each mechanism between cost breakdown structure 共CBS兲 and W
work item. The WF is computed as the ratio of the budget of a In the map, a cost account of the CBS is allocated to given
work item to the total budget of work items of the same type 共e.g., on the WBS. Hendrinkson and Au 共1989兲 attempted to lin
the WF of three footings is 0.32, 0.64, and 0.04 for the first, two parameters directly in a matrix, in which not only linke
second, and third footings, respectively兲. However it does not also isolated work items could be easily analyzed.
explicitly address the breakdown of a work item 共e.g., a footing兲
into its subcomponents 共e.g., excavation, forming, rebar, and con-
Work-Packaging Model
crete兲. Neither does it clearly establish assessment rules to evalu-
ate such a breakdown objectively 共Eldin 1989兲. Despite the contribution of research attempting to link th
Stevens 共1986兲 presented a method to display a project’s cost counts of cost and tasks in a schedule with the aim of integr
profile and accomplishments curve on the same graph. In the cost- and schedule-control, practicability has been a challen
graph, if the actual cost expenditure is less than the planned cost, seems obvious that the accuracy of integrated control wou
an under expenditure is recorded. The magnitude of an under enhanced if the attributes were defined at the task level, the
expenditure is equal to the difference between the two points on est level of WBS 共e.g., lifting, placing, and removing forms u
the cost scale. A shortcoming of the method is that the perfor- the activity known as “formworks”兲.
mance curve does not represent the actual work progress, al- However, this method is impractical because of the large
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in the literature. A key factor is to develop a system to acquire the type of work and resources show a unique pattern ove
data for base measures at the lowest level in order to enhance entire project. For this reason, field staff members group acti
accuracy without incurring cumbersome data-handling work- by floor or apartment and manage the work group accordin
loads. For managers, measures derived at an appropriate level of
detail should be provided in the system, which can be imple- Scheduling
mented by means of a tailored work-packaging model that reflects The basic attribute for scheduling was a higher level of ac
the characteristics of a project. with basic floor units of each apartment as seen in Fig. 1
2–3 floors of concrete work abbreviated as “2-3F Con’c” in
1兲. Schedules at the sites are generally expressed using Micr
Investigation into Current Practices EXCEL bar charts.
For finishing work, the schedule for just one apartme
As part of the writers’ analysis for developing a PMS that is able given; it is used as a reference for other apartments becaus
to overcome challenges in progress management and that is also number of activities for all apartments in the finishing
specialized for multiple apartment buildings construction projects would be too much to express in a single bar chart. For
in South Korea, current practices for progress management were reason, it is difficult to know the starting point of each act
investigated. As samples, 25 construction sites of 10 construction relationships between them, their duration, and critical pat
companies ranked among the top 100 best construction compa- the finishing stage. These problems could likely be solve
nies in South Korea were randomly selected. The investigation using computer applications for project management. At th
was conducted from October 2002 to April 2004. The investiga- ginning of construction, scheduling data are prepared by
tion focused on scheduling, the production of basic measures 共i.e., progress management teams at headquarters and presented i
BCWS, BCWP, and ACWP兲 and control of the variance between formats of the computer applications. However, the applica
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Korea needs to be considered to understand the investigation re-
sults. In general, an apartment consists of housing units with the Calculation of BCWS and ACWP
same floor plan. A multiple apartment buildings block consists of Fig. 2 is an example of BCWS recorded in EXCEL. The B
apartments with similar patterns for floor plans. As a sequence, is calculated from CBS accounts. The weight value of an a
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ment is distributed between cost accounts 共e.g., 26.43 for rein- thus types of work show a pattern in monthly base. As
forced concrete in Fig. 2兲, and the weight value of the account is quence, the budget is evenly distributed to the upper lev
evenly distributed over the duration of the project by month 共e.g., WBS according to the experience. In that case, the BCWS
the weight value of October 2002 for reinforced concrete is 1.63 likely to be accurate from the beginning in a daily or weekly
in Fig. 2兲. The field staff determines the weight value by consid- At a single project, the monthly differences between BCWS
ering the project characteristics and payment cycles to sub- ACWP can be ignorable. However, at the level of a constru
contractors from previous projects. These subjective criteria are company, the aggregated daily or weekly differences bet
not appropriate for integrating cost control with and schedule con- BCWS and BCWP 共or ACWP兲 of all projects are signifi
trol. Third, the BCWP is not currently measured. Instead, the ACW
The actual costs of works completed by the end of month are measured but the ACWP can only be updated monthly. Thu
aggregated. The sum of actual costs is the ACWP. Its purpose is to variance between BCWS and ACWP can only be determin
prepare the payment report rather than to measure or analyze the the end of month. Analysis of a project’s progress over lon
project’s progress. tervals makes it difficult to track the actual situation on site a
Most field managers prefer to use Excel for recording and identify delays in the work.
processing cost data, notwithstanding the introduction of special-
The investigations elucidated the specifications of the w
ized computer applications for project management. Cumbersome
packing model and the preferred way to acquire and proces
workloads associated with data update in the commercial project
evant data. The floor-base work-packaging model is practic
management applications makes managers hesitant to use them.
activities and tasks are repeated in a similar pattern floor by
Thus, they try to handle not only cost but also scheduling data
in an apartment building construction project. Given that th
using EXCEL.
tailed budget and progress data can be obtained from the lo
level of WBS and CBS, the work-package should be defin
Problems and Lessons the lowest level of detail. However, additional data-han
Under the methods investigated, integrating cost- and schedule- workloads due to the detail of the work package are not all
control for the management of daily progress seems impossible if practicability is to be secured.
for three reasons. First, the level of control attributes in the WBS Various reports have been produced on-site, the data
is too high to provide the data necessary for progress manage- which can be used. For instance, the bill of quantity give
ment. In particular, finishing works are not subdivided for indi- quantity of resource items and their cost at the level of act
vidual apartments, activities and tasks. As a sequence, the From this, the budget of control attribute can be calculated
accuracy of BCWS is not assured, as it is calculated subjectively daily work report is another useful source of data on the
by field staffs rather than by a mechanism to connect the detailed progress of work. If the rationale and a mechanism to lin
data estimating the budget and schedule. Second, the budgets of budget of control and daily progress exist, the cost contro
activities are evenly distributed by month as shown in Fig. 2. The schedule control can be integrated.
main reason is that the same floor plan is repeated over floors and The concept of weighted values needs to be considered fu
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the progress of multiple apartment buildings construction projects general, these two are matched one-to-one.
while reducing data handling workloads. The key feature of the However, scheduling at the tasks level is impractical.
method is a work-packaging model that is developed by consid- solution, the control attribute, which is the combination of
ering the lessons from the field investigation and which takes its group and controlling floor unit, is defined for scheduling
rationale from research in the field of progress management. budget of the control attribute is the aggregated cost of task
Based on the work-packaging model, techniques to calculate the fall under it. Fig. 3 is the work-packaging model designed b
BCWS and to measure the BCWP daily are developed. writers.
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Table 2. Duration of Control Attributes in an Apartment Building Table 3. Weight Value of Activities
Work Duration Cost of resources 共$兲 Budget of
group Control attribute 共days兲 Activity activity W
number 1 2 3 共$兲
Reinforced Foundation 12
concrete B1 23 1 300 300
1st floor 28 2 200 200
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Table 4. Weight Value of Tasks daily work report is one of the essential documents for con
Weight Weight tion projects in South Korea, as it records daily progress, the
Activity value of Task Earning value of earning percentage can be obtained to measure the BCWP.
number activity number 共%兲 tasks relieves the burden of additional data handling workloads.
1 0.3 1 50 0.15
2 30 0.09
3 20 0.06 Project Management Systems Currently in Use
2 0.2 4 40 0.08
5 60 0.12 The writers developed the PMS and applied this to a bui
3 0.5 6 100 0.50
project of 54 apartment buildings, 26 underground parking
and 4 commercial buildings. Apartment buildings compris
3,600 housing units of four types of floor plan. The project
used, but the control point in Eldin’s method is replaced by the tion was 28 months. This is one of the largest multiple apar
task. Table 4 shows the relationships between the weight value of construction projects in South Korea.
tasks and activities.
The information is derived from Table 3 and Fig. 4. The sum
Scheduling
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1. The weight value of a task is calculated by multiplying its Fig. 5. Types of control attributes in the schedule charts for
earning percentage by the weight value of the activity. apartment building construction are similar. The number,
If a task is finished, this means that the budget of a control and starting date of attributes of a type vary according t
attribute is spent according to the ratio of the weight value of its location of an apartment building, number of its floors, numb
tasks to the budget of the control attribute. For example, in Table units in a floor and starting date of its construction. The nu
4, if the budget of a control attribute is $1,000 and only Task 1 is of activities for one apartment building is about 200. Thes
finished, the earned value of the day is $150 共i.e., $1,000 ⫻ 0.15兲. tivities are construction only and construction management a
In this case, the variance between BCWS and BCWP is nil, as the ties are not included. A master schedule chart is drawn f
BCWS for day 1 is $150 in Fig. 4. apartment buildings and necessary data are translated from
Once the BCWP can be measured daily, the variance between schedule charts of each apartment building. The schedul
the BCWS and BCWP can also be analyzed daily. Given that the other activities such as earthwork, civil work, parking lots,
mon facilities, and community spaces is added to it.
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A CPM network schedule chart presented in Fig. 5 of an indi- work, and concrete pouring, but the schedule chart indicates
vidual apartment building is made using Microsoft 共MS兲 Project. a single structural work. Such a difference is solved by devis
Given that commercial scheduling-oriented software makes function to group relevant tasks and elements. Fig. 7 is a
scheduling and displaying schedules convenient, the scheduling is ample of this grouping.
conducted using MS Project. To effectively deal with the numer- In the PMS, if a column title 共e.g., the third floor兲 is d
ous data on resources and costs, it is better to use the tailored clicked under the activity section 共e.g., reinforced concrete w
PMS developed by the writers rather than commercial scheduling an interface window pops up prompting the elements 共e.g.,
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Budgeting
When scheduling and budgeting are conducted simultaneously,
much effort is needed to integrate them. As a solution, the sched-
uling is done first and then the budget is distributed at the levels
of control attributes, activities, and tasks. Budgeting based on the
bill of quantity is conducted. A resource for the entire project is
divided into sections of work 共Sectors 1–6兲 and apartment build-
ings according to its weight value. To save time, an automatic
function for the distribution of a resource into controlling units
共e.g., a floor兲 is developed.
Fig. 6 is the screen that captures this function in the PMS. In
Fig. 6, the total quantities of certain types of deformed bars 共e.g.,
10 mm兲 are distributed to each floor of an apartment 共i.e., No. 201
apartment in Sector 2 in Fig. 6兲.
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calculated from BCWS, BCWP, and ACWP. The derived mea- The challenge in the field of progress management is th
sures are displayed in an integrative analysis window of the pro- crease in data handling workloads when the progress is contr
posed PMS. at the lowest level of work to enhance accuracy. An investig
into the current practices of progress control for multiple a
ment construction projects in South Korea addresses the
Practicability and Accuracy of the Proposed System dilemma. In practice, work activities are grouped into contro
floor units and work groups are the main attribute used for s
The proposed system provides a graphic user interface to group uling and control. Due to data handling workloads, the var
tasks and activities as a work group. This function enhances the between plans and actual performance has been measured
flexibility for defining work package comparing to commercial monthly. In order to reduce data handling workloads, the b
scheduling software programs. Another practical function of the has been allocated to sublevels of detail according to prede
system proposed by the authors is to distribute the budget into the weight values. Daily progress is recorded in the daily work re
level of tasks according to the weight values. The BCWS can be Key aspects of the method presented by the writers
calculated from the budget of control attributes by allocating it at work-packaging model designed to provide a flexible leve
the level of activities or tasks according to the daily weight val- calculating and measuring basic measures. According to the
of detail in the model, daily weight values are defined botto
ues. This technique can reduce the data handling workloads as
and the budget is allocated top-down. By doing this the B
compared to the method which calculate the budget of the control
can be calculated. The method then uses the earning percenta
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obtained from the daily work report, without additional data han- its use by applying it to a real multiple apartment constru
dling workloads, is the other function enhancing the practicabil- project. The system was able to integrate many schedule c
ity. Using this method, the manager is able to check on the and bills of quantity one to one, and was able to calculat
progress of a project in real time and to analyze any problems. BCWS with minimum data handling by introducing the b
The practicability of this method and the PMS has been proven distribution technique based on the daily weight value. To e
from the real case described. tively calculate and input the BCWP, a progress updating m
The accuracy of the proposed system is closely tied to the based on the daily work report has been developed. Simp
accuracy of the weight values used in calculating the BCWS and including the percent of progress in the daily work repor
BCWP can be calculated on a daily basis. The case study s
to that of the earning percentages used in measuring BCWP.
the practicability of the PMS.
Theoretically, the technique of allocating the budget of the control Many features of the method and the PMS are derived
attribute to activities and tasks yields the same results as the tech- characteristics of multiple apartment construction projec
nique which calculates the resources and costs of activities and which similar floor plans are repeated, producing unique pa
tasks and sums-these costs to obtain the control attribute budget. of the work process and types of resources. The practicabil
The accuracy of the earning percentage should be further vali- the method and the PMS in other types of projects needs
dated. The earning percentage at the task level is calculated from validated further. In addition, to enhance the practicability o
the bill of quantity for a representative apartment and used for PMS, a simple standard that defines the level of tasks shou
other apartments with similar floor plans. Currently, the earning provided. The accuracy of earned values will be further vali
percentages of tasks under an activity are saved in the database by real data from completed projects in future research.
and used. In future research, any difference between the earning
percentage calculated directly from the bill of quantity and that
from a representative apartment will be measured.
Acknowledgments
Compared to the previous method in which the BCWS and
BCWP are measured monthly, the new method can present daily
This work was part of the research 共R11-2005-056-03001-0兲
progress data. It can be assumed that daily progress control would
ported by the Research Center for Technological Innovatio
provide notice of problematic situations more efficiently than Sustainable Buildings, an Engineering Research Center 共E
monthly progress control. As a result, the schedule and cost supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Found
would remain on the track, as planned. The contribution of this 共KOSEF兲.
new method for progress control can be validated by measuring
the variances in cost and schedule of projects using the previous
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(1989) proposed a practical procedure for evaluating work progress in a quantitative manner by employing the WBS and earned value. Yang
07) attempted to calculate a budgeted cost work schedule by allocating the project budget into a work-packaging model. Chou et al. (2010)
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