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CONSTRUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Many companies have trouble delivering projects on-time and are plagued
with excessively long order-to-delivery cycle times and cannot seem to find a
solution. Time extension keeps stretching the order-to-delivery cycle time, ballooning
inventories, increasing costs, and alienating customers. It also keeps adding
unnecessary operating expense in the continuous mad scramble to compensate for
these problems.
OBJECTIVES
The objectives are
• To collect the time reduction data through literature and case studies of selected
projects.
• To document the time reduction strategies that can be achieved in planning,
design, construction phase and commissioning and handover phase.
• To identify speedier construction techniques and alternative methods of
construction for time reduction.
• To survey in the form of questionnaire from experts aimed at collecting and
documenting time reduction strategies that can be achieved in a project.
SCOPE
The scope covers
• To study the time reduction strategies that can be applied for a construction
project.
• To study the construction methods and technologies that will reduce the project
time.
• To study the time reduction strategies through relevant case studies and the
technology adopted by them.
• To bring out the management approaches for time reduction.
• Questionnaire surveys to identify the drivers of time reduction and applicability of
time reduction in each project phase.
METHODOLOGY
LITERATURE REVIEW
INTRODUCTION
For the study, different pieces of literature will be referred to various parts
of the study. These references helped to understand aspects of cycle time, delays in
construction and techniques achieving reduction in project cycle. All the references
are discussed briefly as follows:
BOOK LITERATURE
1) “Analysis of Techniques leading to radical reduction in project cycle
time”.Research by MakarandHastak, SanjivGokhale, KartikGoyani, Taehoon
Hong and BhavinSafi.American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): journal of
Construction engineering and management: 2008.
Post tensioned flat slab technology for large multistoried buildings can
considerably reduce the cycle time per floor and consequently the overall
construction time. Both fast tracking and economy are the key features of this
technology. Suited for column grid is more. Larger the grid more is the economy and
where the super imposed loading is moderately high.
Economy for a PT slab comes in respect of lesser amount of rebar’s and
concrete quantity per unit area and also reduction in time of construction.
A cycle time of 5-7 days per floor is common in developed countries with
large use of mechanization, tailor made table forms operated hydraulically over large
area, large capacity concrete pumps, high capacity tower cranes at strategic
locations round the clock site work etc.
CASE STUDY