SCHEDULING OF BUILDING USING PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE PRIMAVERA P6

Abstract

Oracle Primavera P6 is a project management software that is used for planning, managing and executing project work. It provides solution to entire project cycle starting from project initiation, planning, execution, controlling, evaluating and closure. Effective use of this tool increases the reliability and profitability of any organization. The construction world is growing day by day and it is also experiencing delay problem in projects. There is need of better plan to execute these larger and complex projects. Primavera is the solution for this. The main objective of this project is to use a project management software Primavera P6 for scheduling of the ongoing as well as residential buildings located in and near Shirpur, district Dhule. Data required for the scheduling is collected from the contractor and software is studied. Various literatures from international journals were studied to understand it effectively. EPS, OBS, WBS, activities, calendar, baselines, etc. are the different elements of the primavera software. Based on data obtained network diagram is prepared and relations are assigned between the activities to calculate the critical path and the total duration of project is calculated by primavera. Three baselines are used in ongoing project. Baseline 1, Baseline 2 and Baseline 3 is shown by the yellow solid color, red hatch and violet cross pattern respectively. Baseline is maintained and it is then assigned to the project. Once any critical activity takes more time than its schedule time Baseline 2 is created. In this residential building of ongoing construction project manual method is used because project is not going exactly as baseline plan. Status of the project is updated by entering actual start date and end date of the project. After the delay primavera automatically shifts the date of the project. Primavera P6 results into the effective planning and scheduling of the project. It helps to understand and forecast the progress of the construction project. From the study of primavera it is concluded that the total duration of the project as per primavera software is calculated and estimated duration is reduced when the project plan is followed as per software scheduling.