The process timeline for sustainable construction management: case study in the construction of an educational centre

Thais Taba Da Silva,Eugenio De Felice Zampini,Márcio Rodrigues Clementino,Wilson Yoshio Tanaka,Adriano Maniçoba Da Silva

doi:10.14807/ijmp.v9i5.809

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Abstract

Entrepreneurship is hard work, especially when it comes to the creation of an innovative, ecologically correct and sustainable project, and the small entrepreneur, in addition to facing bureaucratic and fiscal obstacles, has great difficulty in running his business, planning and optimizing his production for lack structured management knowledge. This is what happens with the company studied, where the construction of an educational centre, thought to be a model of ecological and sustainable building, did not have a schedule of execution, thus becoming dependent on very short term planning, accomplished at each step, rather than a structured action as a whole. In this sense, the Critical Path Method (CPM), which uses simple estimates for the duration of the building stages and the PERT technique, was implemented among a variety of schedules and methods for planning and control of works execution. This method is suitable and simple to use by small businesses. This methodology, easy to be understood and implemented, generated benefit to the company, allowing planning, predictability and control of the works.

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The process of controlling the work reflects directly on the performance of the production; with the most commons shortcomings in the construction process the low productivity, waste and quality (BRITO; FERREIRA, 2015).Brito and Ferreira (2015), points out that the role of production is to know and correct the deviations in relation to planned, before they occur, and continuously evaluating the quality of the planned project
The property analyzed has an area of 20,200 m2 that was used in the production and sale of ornamental plants in Pindorama (Rural Zone of Mogi das Cruzes, SP), an excellent location, with an asphalted road connected to the Engenheiro Cândido do Rêgo Chaves Highway, SP-39, Rota do Caminho do Mar
The owners of the property worked for twenty-three years as producers of ornamental plants, being permission holders in the Companhia de Entrepostos e Armazéns Gerais de São Paulo (CEAGESP)

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Brito and Ferreira (2015), points out that the role of production is to know and correct the deviations in relation to planned, before they occur, and continuously evaluating the quality of the planned project. The timelines, the network diagrams and the balance lines are used as the main planning techniques. In this way, the schedules are the most common tool used in building construction management, there are some limitations in the activities that cause changes in critical paths. The company, in which the study was developed, started the process of building the sustainable educational Centre from the decision of changing the production of ornamental plants from a site located in the neighborhood of Pindorama, in Mogi das Cruzes, to this Centre

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