Optimization of Resources of a Building Project

Abstract

The construction of building projects consists of interlinking and diverse activities which have to be completed within a yardstick cost and specific deadline. For this, a project manager needs to optimally render the planning and to schedule tasks simultaneously in such cases due to limitations of resources; for example, availability at the right place and at the right time is a big problem. Such a problem can be resolved using resource leveling. This research presents how to practice resource leveling via Microsoft (MS) Project using a case study. A three-story building is selected as a case study. The basement was allocated for parking and there were flats on the rest of the two stories. Upon different dependencies, all the activities of the project were taken in an interconnected manner, and resource leveling was brought out. Different flow charts such as cost flow, cost distribution over resources, resource scheme, etc., were drawn in MS project. MS project was found to be very productive and efficient especially in small industries, i.e., where there are fewer activities and complexities.