A Study of Construction Planning and Scheduling Using Software

Abstract

To achieve construction planning and scheduling goal for every construction project, scheduler should do

planning according to available resources and work sequences with contract arrangement. Nowadays, computer software is used to assist the work to be faster. This paper presents using of scheduling software in a demonstrated construction project. Researcher collected data of problems and obstacles form the real software use. The data collection was combined with opinion from two practical construction schedulers using in depth interview. The result revealed that important problems of software using were calendar setting, subtask setting, cost inputting, s-curve progress comparison, and data linkage with spreadsheet software