Construction and Project Management

Assignment 1
Submitted by : Ankita Parekh
Roll No. : 19AR10008

Given:
● One RMC Truck will be loaded at a time at the batching plant
● One Pump will operate with one RMC Truck at a time
● Equipment Availability:
○ Batching Plant: 1 ( per day capacity: 225cum)
○ RMC Truck: 5 (Maximum)
○ Concrete Pump: 5 (Maximum)
○ Surface Vibrator: as per requirement

Equipment and their work flows

Batching Plant Capacity: 225 Cum/Day
RMC Truck Capacity: 10 Cum
Concrete Pump with Pump Rate: 20 Cum/ hr
Surface vibrator required by each Pump Discharge : 5

RMC Truck
Loading time Travel time (in mins) Discharge time
(in mins) (in mins)
Batch to Site Site to Batch
20 20 10 30

Total cycle time : 80 mins

Maximum number of trucks for 1 batch plant : total/loading time = 80/20 = 4
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Total Productivity
Length of Pavement Breadth of Pavement Thickness of Pavement
3000 40 0.5
Volume (cum) 60000
(Given)Per day Capacity of Plant (cum) 225

Total Productivity = (Productivity per day) * (Number of Working Days)

Therefore, Total Number of Working Days = 60000/225 ~ 267 days

Batching plant
Capacity of batching plant 225
Capacity of 1 truck 10
Number of trips 23

Number of trips per truck : 23/4 ~ 6

Efficient Working hour per truck : 6*80/60= 8
Working Hours including Breaks : 8+1 = 9
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Cost Calculation

Cost RMC Truck (in Rs.) Cost : Concrete Pump (in Rs.) Cost : Surface Vibrator (in Rs.)

Surface Vib. Per Day

RMC Truck Per Day Rent 4500 Concrete Pump Per Day Rent 3000 Rent 500
Operation Cost/Day 6000 Operation Cost/Day 5000 Operation Cost/Day 1200
Driver Rate/Day (1 No) 800 Operator Rate/Day (1 No) 800 Labour Rate/Day (3 No) 1500
Helper Rate/Day (1 No) 300 Helper Rate/Day (1 No) 300
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As can be seen from the chart above, we need 4 trucks to complete the job. When truck C arrives on site, pump 1 would have already
discharged the cement of Truck A.
Hence, 2 pumps are sufficient.

RMC Truck
No. of truck No. of driver No. of helper
1 1 1

4 4 4

Concrete Pump
Time Difference between 2 trucks 40
Discharge time 30
1 Pump can serve 2 trucks
No. of Pump No. of operator No. of helper
1 1 1

2 2 2

Vibrator
5 Vibrators per Concrete Pump
No. of Pump No. of Vibrator No. of Labour
1 5 15

2 10 30
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Day wise Operation chart

Entity Number Cost per unit (in Rs.) Cost per day (in Rs.)
RMC Truck Rent 4 10500 42000
RMC Truck Driver 4 800 3200
RMC Truck Helper 4 300 1200
Concrete Pump 2 8000 16000
Concrete Pump Operator 2 800 1600
Concrete Pump Helper 2 300 600
Surface Vibrator 10 1700 17000
Surface Vibrator Labour 30 500 15000

Total cost per day : Rs. 96600

Total Number of Working Days = 60000/225 ~ 267 days
Therefore, total operational cost of the project = Rs. 25,792,200 (Ans.)