IRJET- Planning and Scheduling for a Multi-Storied Building using MS-Project

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Planning and Scheduling for a Multi-Storied Building using MS-Project
Sachin Pashupatihal1, Prof. Vidyasagar V. Moogi2
1M.TECH (CCT) Student, Civil Engineering Dept. Jain College of Engineering, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
2Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Dept. Jain College of Engineering, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
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Abstract - The object of the present work is to study the
scheduling methods and construction system of work for
multistorey buildings and to achieve the application of
Microsoft project software in planning and scheduling of a
multistorey RCC building construction and cost of
conformance for the project. To complete the above objectives
a hypothetical RCC residential G+7 building is considered. The
complete planning and schedulingofthis buildingisstudiedby
traditional technique used by Architects, Engineers and
contractors and is compared by modern software technique.
For this approach Microsoft project software is used for
planning and scheduling the RCC building. Observation shows
that Microsoft project software serves as an effective tool for
generating Gantt chart for the schedule of a construction
project and offers the minimum duration of construction time
by schedule crunching and project crashing methods in
software. Present work presents good information about the
application of Microsoft project software for the planningand
scheduling of building construction.
Key Words: Project, Time, Cost, Scheduling, Resource
Allocation, construction, Critical Path Method (CPM)
1. INTRODUCTION
The Building professional as an integral component of a
nation’s structure and plays an important role in financial
growth through multiple effects on other sectors of
economy. Companiesarealwayslookingfordevelopmentsin
utilities features, communication tools, effective
management methods, and harnessing human resources.
There are many issues being faced by the civil engineering
and most of them are time and cost related, due to
inadequate project planning and incorrect management
during completing. Many project planners say that the cost
of the project goes above the planned cost by 30% and it is
due to improper planning and scheduling. Largescaleworks
become more difficult so the opportunity of exchanging
information on papers with establishments at regular
intervals becomes nearly difficult. The casual project
management system cannot reach the demands of today’s
projects, as huge amount of data and evidence of a project
are always changeable. Project managers in the civil
engineering say that the amount of time spent on
communication is 70-80% and project certification is 70%
paper prone. A warning mechanism must be fulfilled which
can alarm the association aboutitsprojectsachievement and
failures in the meantime. Projects with better planning,
sufficient flow of resources and adequate machines cannot
achieve good results on its own. There has to be some
alerting mechanism, which can alarm the association about
its success and failures, on and off.
In India, due to an increasingly local and international
competition, construction companies are always motivated
for maximum productivity and a economical operational
benefit. Companies are always looking for developments in
equipment features, communication tools, efficient
management methods, and training human resources. They
are also narrowing their focus to study in certain projects
instead of taking up all forms of it. This specialization
requires a very streamlined method for monitoring
techniques and extremely good planning for the best
services. The profits of operative planning, scheduling and
control of building projects are: reduced construction time,
decreases cost overruns.
1.1 Project
The projects are the temporary striving which has
undertaken to create the unique products, results and
services.
Each and every Project will have an unmistakable start
date and moreover an end date. The projects are termed
finished just when the reason proposed has been
accomplished or when it has been chosen that the reason
can't be accomplished. For instance, if theventureistocreate
software design and it is wound upbybuildingupthesame,it
has said to be reason accomplished. The primary vital
element that decidesa projectis"Temporary".Theimportant
point to be noted for that the word temporary need not
means short. A task can keep going for6 months, or1year,or
even up till 10 years, yet the length of there has a positive
start and an end date for the task, it would be called as a
Project.
Also, project are "Unique" in nature, i.e. no two tasks can
have hundred percent closeness between them. In order to
explain a task is a project, the unique feature of the task
should be prominent, the minimumbringonefeatureatleast.
The individuality may not be obtainable in all parts of the
project. There can be recurrences in theprojectactivitiesand
deliverables, but the objective attempted for differs. For
occurrence, the exchange reasonable being directed each
year in any of the month has another project being doneeach
year, as it expects to undertake an alternate target a
apparently endless amount of time. The developingactivities
don't require exhausting planning since that will be gone to,

all the live long day. Be that as it may, as projects are one of
the unique kind we need to plan it in point of importance to
decrease the variabilities.
The key components of any task would be as per the
following:
 Project has described start and end date.
 End results are particular and responsible.
 Projects are logically expounded.
 The result of the project might be unique.
1.2 Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project is a project management software
product, established and sold by Microsoft. It is planned to
assist a project manager in increasing a plan, assigning
resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the
inexpensive, and analysing workloads. MS project can be
used as a standalone tool for tracking project progress or it
can be used for tracking complexprojectdistributedin many
geographical areas and achieved by a number of project
managers. Microsoft project is planned to assist aaproject
manager in;
1. Developing a plan,
2. Assigning resources to tasks,
3. Tracking progress,
4. Managing budget and
5. Analysing workloads
1.3 Objective of Study
The main objective of this study is
1) To develop effective schedule by defining the various
activities and arranging these activities in an appropriate
sequential order.
2) To identify the resources required for all activities,
allocating and managing the same with efficiency.
3) Estimate duration required to complete the individual
activity with the available resources
4) To estimate the resources of the project according to the
quantities calculated.
5) Using Parametricandanalogousestimationcalculationsof
duration and resources.
6) Developing Critical Path Method to calculate total
duration of the project and its critical task.
7) Optimization of scheduling using fasttracking,crashingof
the duration and Bottom Up Estimation.
8) To identify the cost of quality of the Budget as per the
scope. Namely
 Cost of conformance
 Cost of non-conformance.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Shruti Singh, Shweta Istape, Amruta Surve, SahilPandey,
Avinash Singh, Sangram More (2018) In this study the
Planning and Scheduling has been done and the site where
located near Karjat, Mumbai, India. According to the
estimation they got 20 months to complete this building as
per their planning. For this building they have done CPM and
PERT analysis for Planning. After MSP work the project time
was completed in18monthsbyproperallocation.Hencethey
concluded that the MSP methodofplanningandschedulingis
more scientific.
Monish Kumar K, MaheshwarSMaregoudru,SparshaB.P
(2017) In this study they taken a Apartment for a project
work. The methodology has been done in two phases in first
phase collection of data andalsostructuraldrawings,soiltest
report, are collected and in second phase actual scheduling
process starts by using MS Project. After obtaining results
they concluded that Using MSP as a construction project
managementtool,projectplanningisdoneaccurately,Budget
cost of the project is easily obtained.
Pooja Tripathi, Vinay Kumar Singh, Pravin Singh Tomar,
J. P. Gupta (2018) By using Microsoft they made a study on
RCC building Project, and the objective of the project scopeis
to study the scheduling techniqueandconstructionsequence
for a multi-storey building. To achieve the above objectivesa
hypothetical RCC residential G+4 building is considered. The
traditional software which is used by the contractor is
compared with Microsoft Project. After obtaining the result
the MSP software works on Gantt chart concept. This gives
the easy considerate of the development of the work. It says
that the MS Project is more economical than traditional one.
3. METHODOLOGY
The Microsoft Project is used in this project. A proper start
and end time must be a project have. Within the obtainable
funds and resources the project must be completed and
within the assigned time the task must be managed by
achieving this a project can be complete in a defined period.
The procedure of the work in this process can be carried out
in the following way. The flow diagram of the process is
obtainable below.

Fig -1: Flow Chart of Methodolgy
In the Microsoft Project the planning of the construction,the
programming and the optimization of the resources are
done. The methodology used for this project were the
activity was defined first, to prepare a programming report
the several activities were used with the different logical
relations and durations. Then, collecting a availability of
resources and assigning were this can be obtained by the
critical path, the levelling and analysis will be carried out
and the results will be concluded. In the below MSP the
activity were completely described in the following steps.
1. Planning
 Data Collections
 Quantity Surveying
2. Scheduling
3. Resource Optimization
 Resource Allocation
 Resource Levelling
4. Cost Benefit Analysis
Cost Benefit Analysis: It relates the cost of the quality with
the benefit derived from meeting the quality. The primary
advantage of achieving quality necessities are:
 Stakeholder’s satisfaction
 Costs are lower
 Productivity is higher
 Less rework
4. INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS
4.1 Estimation of the Project
The estimated data of the projectwherecollectedfromoffice
where the project were studied. The given format is in the
form of excel and the calculated quantities of earthwork
Excavated, steel reinforcement required, concrete quantity
etc were given. This were calculated and was summarized in
a excel sheet.
4.2 Planning, Scheduling and Budgeting In MSP
After Collecting the Building Estimation, the resource are
calculated and for each activity will be allocated with
duration in the sequence of the activity will be done further
in MSP the work Breakdown structure will be created by
using Intending and Out ending the activities. The activities
will be linked later with one another by giving the
predecessors.
The Resources like Manpower, Material and Machinery are
used for the allocating the resource for the specified activity
for the budgeting purpose. The rate per unity should be
given by the resources where allocatedsothatthenumberof
resource required to allocate forthespecifiedactivitysothat
the software automatically computes the total price for that
activity later the total budget of the project, and total cost of
all activity will be given.
Fig -2: Planning of Project in MSP

4.3 Resource Calculation
The labour productivity sheet where given by the company,
the required quantity of work were calculated depending on
which the labour requiredtocompletethe required quantity.
Depending on the duration of the activity the same was
implemented to planning, the number of labours required
per day can be changed. If again any changes required in the
number of labours.
4.4 Identifying the Critical path
Everyatask is essential, but only some of them are critical.
The critical path is a chain of linked tasksthatdirectlyaffects
the project finish date. If any task on the critical path is late,
the complete project is late.
The critical path is a series of tasks that controls the planned
start or finish date of the project. The tasksathatmakeupthe
critical path are typically interrelated by task needs. There
are likely to be many such networks of task throughoutyour
project plan. When the last task in the critical path is
finished, the project is also complete.
Fig -3: Critical Path of the Project
4.5 Cost Benefit Analysis
According to the cost of conformance the supervisor are
assigning to the each activity andQualityControl andQuality
Assurance is assigned for steel and concrete works this has
been done to reduce the over run of the cost after
completion of the project. Before spending 1% to2%oftotal
estimated cost we will be able to control the project over
run.
Fig -4: Supervisor and QA/QC resource sheet
Fig -5: Resource allocation for supervisor and QA/QC
5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In this project using Microsoft Project the Projectduration is
optimized. By creating the WBS (Work Break down
Structure) and allocating the resources the total duration of
the project is calculated by planning and scheduling the
project. And also the cost benefit analysis has been done the
total cost of the project has been increased by 1% to 3% for
allocating supervisors and Quality Assurance and Quality

Control for the activities, the cost conformance can be
achieved.
5.1 Time Optimization
Efficiently scheduling the project for 768 days using CPM.
Fig -6: Critical path Method in MSP
5.2 Resource Calculation
According to the quantity of the project surveyed the
resource are calculated according to the productivity sheet
where given by the company the required quantity of work
were calculated depending on which the labour required to
complete required quantity.
Chart -1: Total duration for workers
5.3 Fast Tracking
The duration of the project was found to be 768 days after
fast tracking. The start to start predecessor were used for
the fast tracking process.
Fig -7: Fast tracking
5.4 Cost of conformance
Chart -2: Total duration for supervisor and QA/QC
Chart -3: Total cost for supervisor and QA/QC

Total cost of Conformance = Supervisor + QA/QC
= 216637.5 + 155400
= 372037 Rupees
6. CONCLUSIONS
Following conclusion can be made from the result obtained
from the project.
 Features like Critical Path MethodinMicrosoftProjectfor
Planning and Scheduling is proved to be very effective
then doing manual Planning and Scheduling
 Optimization of the Duration was carried out by Fast
tracking, Crashing and bottom of estimation to decrease
the duration of the project to 768 Days.
 After carrying out the duration Optimization it helped to
define the resource and its quantities.
 Microsoft Project helps to understand the under
allocation and over allocation of the Project and allows it
to level the resources timely.
 As we have estimated the activity duration using
parametric and analogousEstimation wecouldachieveto
get the accurate duration of the task.
 With the seven Basic Quality tools Project was executed
with zero defects.
 Adding on Extra resource in terms of supervisors and
Quality AssuranceQuality Control on to the tasks to
ensure the Quality in controlled and Monitored
throughout the duration of the Project therefore Cost of
Conformance = 3,72,037Rs
 According to the survey of KPMG, it says that after the
completion of the project, the overall cost of the project
10% to 30% of the cost will over run. The above cost of
conformance Graph it proves that spending
approximately 1% to 3% of total estimated cost we will
be able to control the project over run.
REFERENCES
[1] Shruti Singh, Shweta Istape, Amruta Surve, Sahil Pandey,
Avinash Singh,SangramMore.2018."COMPARATIVESTUDY
OF PLANNING AND SCHEDULING OF A CONSTRUCTION
PROJECT USING MICROSOFT PROJECT." IJRET:International
Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, Volume
7, Issue 6, PP.32-40.
[2] Monish Kumar K, MaheshwarSMaregoudru,Sparsha B.P.
2017. "Construction Project Scheduling of MK Apartment
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[3] Pooja Tripathi, Vinay KumarSingh,Pravin Singh Tomar,J.
P. Gupta. 2018. "PLANNING AND SCHEDULING OF
MULTISTOREY RCC BUILDING USING MICROSOFT
PROJECT." International Journal of Engineering Science
Invention Research & Development Volume 4, Issue 11,
PP.356-364.
BIOGRAPHIES
Sachin Pashupatihal
M.TECH(CCT)Student, Civil
Engineering Dept. Jain College of
Engineering, Belagavi.
Karnataka, India
Prof. Vidyasagar V. Moogi
Assistant Professor, Civil
Engineering Dept. Jain College of
Engineering. Belagavi.
Karnataka

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