TOP VITAL STEP IN SUCCESSFUL CONSTRUCTION ( PART 2 )

Top Vital Steps in Successful Construction(Part 2)

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In the Top Vital Step in Successful Construction (Part 1), I already elaborate in brief what are the vital steps that needed in order to successfully complete a construction project. One of the key steps that I did mentioned was the Work Program.

The first stage that a person needs to do is to come out with the master work program which will be the baseline for the monitoring purpose. Work Program, as a matter of fact, is part of the project management item which is a very important tool for project managers. It list and display almost all items that required in orderly manner as guidance for all head of construction personnel to do their work. In a work program one can find out easily the information as listed below.

1. Required task to deliver a construction product,
   
2. When is the date of site possession or site handing over to contractor,
   
3. The start and the finish every task,
   
4. The duration that needed to complete a task,
   
5. The dependency of each and every task,
   
6. The cost of construction for every task,
   
7. Contractor resources that are planned to complete a work,
   
8. Critical task that must not being delay the date to start and finish,
   
9. The targeted date of completion and
   

However, out of the entire item listed above, it still up to the project manager to customise what is the information that he want to display in his work program. Nevertheless the developer of the work program still need to incorporate the entire item mentioned for the purpose of monitoring the status of the project.

The second stage of the work program is tracking stage. What is tracking stage? Tracking stage is a process that manager need to do to enable him to get the overall view of the project status. In other word, it is to insert in the percentage of the work completed task by task. The percentage will show how the project progress in actual. It will calculate the differences between the baseline or the schedule program and actual work done on site. With the information the project manager will know whether his project can be successfully completed on the same date as spell out in the formal contract. In general term of reporting project progress, the overall status of the project also reported either as "ahead of schedule" or "behind schedule" which also mean the project is delay.

Know that we already discuss the important of the work program; the next question is how are we going to come out with the work program? There are two ways that we can use to develop a work program. The first one is do it manually which mean developing the work program without the computer aided software and the next method is to utilised any available work program software that we familiar of. There are numbers of software being develop and lunch for this purpose. Among them are Microsoft Project and Primavera. With the available technology that we have now, it have tremendously reduce the difficulty to develop a good work program.

For all those involve in developing the work program, congratulation that you have read this article. Hopefully that it can help you out and look out for the next article which will be publish soon. Thank you.