Construction Management, Planning and Modelling of a Hospital Building

日期 : Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

My Final Year Project (FYP) was in Construction Management. The reason behind taking construction management as a field for final year project is because our group was immensely interested in it and also we were advised to select the field of our professional interest. These construction management tools have given novel and good exposure and understanding of project management. This includes working out quantities of different structural elements in a building i.e. preparing bill of quantities, preparing bar bending schedule to calculate the quantity of steel, labor productivity and how it effects the construction duration. And altogether the total time of the project, rate analysis of the resources used in the project such as machinery, materials and manpower and incorporating all these aspects for ultimately planning and scheduling the construction activities on computer software like Primavera. The total work, as total cost, number of activities, its unique methodology and assurance made the project very interesting to work upon. In today’s construction industry more emphasis is laid on time saving, in order to meet time constraints. This project enabled us to work on different cost and time control methods like Project Crashing and Resource leveling and smoothing. It also enabled us to get in touch with the local market i.e. the material vendors, labor and the construction industry. This project is a great source of learning for developing an economical and beneficial project. We have also created a computerized 3D model of our project building to give a digital representation of our work using Autodesk Revit through which entire 3d model can be viewed and walk through to different sections of building. Our regular visits to the construction site have taught us various spot etiquettes regarding construction safety, quality assurance and quality control. Extra emphasis is laid on site safety.