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Unit 1 Contents
Basic concepts in the development of construction plan
Choice of technology & construction method
Defining work tasks
Precedence relationships among activities
Estimating activity duration
Estimating resource requirement/work
Coding systems
Aspects are
i. generation of required activities
ii. analysis of the implications of activities
iii. choice among the various alternative means of performing
activities
Emphasis Unwieldy
Normative Insidious
Aspects Comprehensive
Sketchy Ad hoc
Explicit Haphazard
Forestall
Fore-runner
Exhaustive
Associate
a) relative costs
b) Reliabilities
c) availability of equipment
Circles at the beginning/end of each arrow are called nodes or events and represent milestone
Activity-on-branch diagram
Activity-on-node diagram
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Estimating Activity Durations Contd.
Activity Predecessor Duration (Days)
Excavate trench --- 1.0
Place formwork Excavate trench 0.5
Place reinforcing Place formwork 0.5
Pour concrete Place reinforcing 1.0
For large concrete pours on horizontal slabs, it is important to plan the activity so that the
slab for a full block can be completed continuously in a single day.
i. Resources required for pouring the concrete depend upon the technology used.
ii. For example, a standard crew for pumping concrete to the slab might include a
foreman, five laborers, one finisher, and one equipment operator.
iii. Related equipment would be vibrators and the concrete pump.
iv. For delivering concrete with a chute directly from the delivery truck, the standard
crew might consist of a foreman, four laborers and a finisher.
The number of crews would be chosen to insure that the desired amount of concrete
could be placed in a single day.
In addition to the resources involved in the actual placement, it would also be necessary
to insure a sufficient number of delivery trucks and availability of the concrete itself
The digits 21 in this example might refer to excavation of column footings MASTERFORMAT
The next character refers to the block or general area on the site that the activity will take place
in this case block A
The digits 00 could be replaced by a code to indicate the responsible organization for the activity
The characters cf34 refer to the particular design element number for which this excavation is intended;
in this case, column footing number 34 is intended
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