MICROSOFT PROJECT ENABLED SCHEDULE AND RESOURCE PLANNING IN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

This paper presents a Microsoft Project enabled schedule and resource planning study for a G+13 RCC residential project. The project baseline duration is 907.56 days with a planned cost of Rs. 117,055,100.57. After resource leveling and revision of activity sequencing, the project duration becomes 826.05 days and the cost becomes Rs. 110,458,304.48. The net saving is 81.51 days or 8.98% in time and Rs. 6,596,796.09 or 5.64% in cost. Activity-wise results show that slab casting gives the highest duration saving of 12.56%, followed by RCC frame at 11.78%, lift-core RCC at 10.20%, foundation at 9.42%, masonry at 9.42% and MEP rough-in at 9.42%. These results demonstrate that disciplined WBS preparation, baseline comparison, critical path review, resource leveling and cost-loaded scheduling can produce measurable improvement in high-rise residential construction planning. The study confirms that reliable project data and practical scheduling control are sufficient to identify time-cost savings without changing the technical scope of work.

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