Type of Project Plans
Planning the entire project from its
inception to completion requires as vast coverage, varied skills, and different
types of plans. The nature of plans encountered in a typical construction
project, are indicated below.
Types
of project plans
Development
stage
|
Nature
plan
|
Inception
stage
|
Project
feasibility plan
|
Engineering
stage
|
Project
preliminary plan
|
Implementation
stage
|
Project
construction
|
Project feasibility plan
Planning by the client begins as soon as
he gets the idea about developing a facility to fulfill certain motives. His
early thought process conceptualize the cost, time and benefit implications of
the project. Only when he is convinced about the soundness of his idea does he
decide to go ahead with the feasibility studies.
The feasibility study team examines the
needs of the client and ways to fulfill them. It defines the overall scope of
work and breaks it down into various task groups. It develops an outline plan
of work, and assesses the time and costs of accomplishing the project. This
outline plan, developed by the feasibility team during the inception stage,
forms the basis for identifying project objectives and developing the project
plan.
Project preliminary plan
Acceptance of the feasibility studies
marks the commencement of the preliminary plan-making process. Its main aim is
to provide direction to the client managers and staff employed during the
development phase of the project. The project preliminary plan forms the basis
for developing the project construction plan. The preliminary plan may include
the following:
a. A project time schedule and the skeleton
network to highlight the work dependencies, project milestones and the expected
project completion time.
b. The project design and drawing preparation
schedule.
c. A breakdown of project work into
contracts, along with a schedule of contracting activities, including the
tender preparation period, tender finalization period, and the contracted works
commencement and completion dates.
d. A resources preliminary forecast
indicating the phased requirement of men. important materials, plant and
machinery.
e. Resources procurement system.
f. Project organization and staffing pattern.
g. Preliminary forecast of funds requirement.
Project construction plan
The client entrusts the construction of
project facilities to the project management team headed by the project manager
or the resident engineer. This management team may be from the client’s own
construction agency or from a client appointed construction management
consultant firm or from a suitably organized combination of these. The planning
chief, who is a member of the project management team, is entrusted with the
task of developing the project construction plan. This plan includes the
contracted works plans and the commissioning plan, as applicable. The work
programmes are derived form the targets set out in the project plan.
The project construction plan as well as
the contracted works plan further include the following plans:
a. Time plan: It depicts the schedule
of project activities for completion of the project within the specified time.
b. Resources plan: It forecasts the
required input resources of men, materials, machinery and money for achieving
the project completion time target and cost objectives.
c. Plan for controlling project: It
encompasses the design of control system, monitoring system, codification
system and the computerized information system.
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