Planning is the first step of construction undertaking management philosophy of planning, organizing and controlling the execution of the undertakings. Construction undertaking planning and undertaking scheduling is two separate and distinct function of the undertaking management. Here, we will learn about the planning phase of undertaking management.
Then this master plan is put into time schedule by scheduling people which is called undertaking scheduling. A undertaking plan is mostly responsible for the success or failure of the undertaking. building undertaking planning is the function in which undertaking and building managers and their key staff members prepares the master plan.
It can also be said that it is a precaution by which we can reduce undesirable effects or unexpected happenings and thereby eliminating confusion, waste, and loss of efficiency. Planning is a bridge between the experiences of the past projects and the proposed actions that produces favourable results in the future. Planning involves prior determination, specification of factors, forces, effects and relationships necessary to reach the desired goals.
Planning must be done logically, thoroughly and honestly to have a chance to succeed. The previous experiences of projects provides basic planning logic. The difference between previous projects and current projects shall be known to make any exceptional features in the basic planning logic.
These differences can be unusual client requirement, out of the way location, potential external or internal delaying factors etc. These potential problems shall have to be tackled in order to reduce their negative effect preparing master plan of the project and later scheduling of the project. offer each aspect of the plan an individual scrutiny with input from past experiences and from experts.
There are several types of project planning. The three major types of construction project planning are:
1. Strategic planning: this involves the high-level selection of the undertaking objectives
2. Operational planning: this involves the detailed planning needed to meet the strategic objectives
3. Scheduling: this puts the detailed operational plan on a time scale set by the strategic objectives.
In this they decide what undertaking to build and what the completion date has to be to meet the owner’s undertaking goals. The construction teams formulates the master construction execution plan within the guidelines set in the strategic and contracting plans. This is done by the owner’s corporate planners.
Operational planning is done by construction teams. They are: They ask certain questions before making operational plan for the undertaking.
All these questions are answered in preparation of the building master plan before detailed scheduling of the project.
A building master plan addresses how will the undertaking be planned, organized, and major work activities be controlled to meet the goals of finishing the work on time, within budget and as specified.
Questions related to government and social restraint, resources for construction, owner’s policies or legal requirements, contractual requirement affecting master plan are not answered by contracting plan. Contracting plan is the major consideration in formulating the master construction plan, which answers a lot of questions. Answers to these questions must be found during the development of the project execution plan.
Project execution plan shall be reviewed and evaluation shall be done as the work progresses. Minor variations are common but major changes shall be considered with extreme caution.
The construction undertaking master plan shall be completed and approved and after that time plan (scheduling), budget plan, resource plan shall be carried out.