Construction Materials Management: A case study of Residential Building Construction Project

Abstract

This paper is written to fill a void created by the absence of proper material management on construction sites. This project titled ‘Construction Material Management: A case study of Residential Building Construction Project’ is an attempt made on studying and assessing the material management principles and practices in a residential project. The objective of the present study is to understand about the problems occurring in the organization because of improper application of material management. In construction project operation, often there is a project cost variance in terms of the material, equipment’s, manpower, subcontractor, overhead cost, and general condition. Material is the main component in construction projects. Therefore, if the material management is not properly managed it will create a project cost variance. Project cost can be controlled by taking corrective actions towards the cost variance. Therefore a methodology is made to classify the materials by ABC analysis and these materials are identified and are taken up to measure the variations involved by S-Curve analysis and suitable measures are suggested using cause and effect diagram. EOQ analysis helped to suggest the root causes for many types of problems that were detected at the project site. Key Words: Material Management, ABC (Always Better Control) Classification, Material Requirement Plan (MRP), S-Curve analysis, Cost variance, Cause and Effect diagram.