COMPUTER AIDED PROJECT S MANAGEMENT USING PRECEDENCE NETWORK

Abstract

Scientific management of Civil Engineering projects have come a long way from planning by Gantt bar chart to sophisticated network techniques, like CPM, PERT, GERT, Precedence network etc. Precedence network is the technique, which, are mostly used in split types activities. This technique is the most compact, comprehensive and more realistic to construction project where highly 'inter-relationship and interdependency among the various activities is there. For small projects manual calculation can be carried out easily, but In case of large projects, It is a very tedious job. With the invention of digital computers, the network theories can be easily applied through computer for efficient and economical planning, scheduling and monitoring of a big project. Keeping this in view, a computer interactive software package is developed in the present dissertation. The software developed is capable of performing the task of time scheduling, calnder dated scheduling and resosurce levelling. The data can be entered either in an interactive mode through terminal or from a pre-edited data file. Several checks have been incorporated to ensure correctness of data. • Further an actual case study has been carried out and presented in a specific format.