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Deferral Inquiry of Road Construction
M. Kumaravel
Pages: 1-43 | First Published: 05 Nov 2022
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Abstract
Delay in construction industry is a global phenomenon, especially in highway projects and there is no exception. It is widely accepted that a project is successful when it is finished on time and cost. Regrettably, large number of construction projects fails to follow the planned schedule due to many reasons and hence delayed. In any construction project, scheduling and delay analysis becomes an imperative in order to minimize delays. The application of construction schedule to predict the project completion time. Delay in completion of project can increase the price of the project. Project Management is the main key role in the construction industry. Small projects will be managed with efficiency manually; whereas massive projects aren't therefore massive projects will be better handled by the utilization of computers. Many varieties of software package are offered with the assistance of that project management will be done simply. In highway construction, entirely different resources are needed for execution and also the risk is additional during this form of projects. So, proper planning and scheduling are needed in massive projects to ensure that a construction project is completed on time and within budget. In our project an attempt is created in scheduling and delay analysis of varied activities concerned in highway construction in Thanjavur district, Tamilnadu by using primavera software. The length of the highway is 47.835 Kms. Four lane configuration of flexible pavement including construction of culverts, minor bridges, major bridges, Flyover, VUPs, PUPs etc., and its scheduled to 730 days.. Keyword: Delay analysis, Highway Construction, Primavera, Time and Cost

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