Scope, Budget and Schedule of Construction Projects

Construction Projects are defined by their scope, budget, and schedule.

Technorati Profile

For example, an Agency is to undertake a project to design and build a new maintenance facility for its fleet of buses (scope), at an estimate of $30 million (preliminary budget) over a three-year period of construction (schedule). The schedule specifies a defined beginning and end. Projects go through a life cycle of phases between their beginnings and ends that forconstruction projects are typically: initiation, planning, design, construction, commissioning, and closeout.

Construction Scheduling Techniques

The four project scheduling techniques widely used in construction projects are:
. Bar Charts and Linked Bar Charts
. Network Analysis and Critical Path Method
. Line of Balance
. Q Scheduling

These are briefed below, in which Q Scheduling is now a new technique increasingly applied in construction project management.

Steps to Successful Schedules in Project Management

If you search internet with “Steps to Successful Schedules“, you will find millions of results. There are tons of resources that claim the perfect ways of scheduling.

Here is some steps for schedule creation that project managers can follow for their successful management.