A PROPOSED APPROACH FOR APPLYING CCPM CONCEPTS IN CONSTRUCTION
| Author(s) | : | Adel I. Eldosouky, Ehab G. Elhosary |
| Institution | : | Structural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt |
| Published In | : | Vol. 6, Issue 4 — April 2019 |
| Page No. | : | 12-22 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
For many construction projects, It is common for the customer to pay an incentive to the contractor forfinishing the project in a shorter length of time. In contrast, the contractor pays delay penalties if the project is delayed.Goldratt 1997 suggested critical chain project management method (CCPM) as an attempt for minimizing projectduration. Goldratt approach and related buffer sizing approaches result in different values of project buffer and feedingbuffer which do not satisfy construction projects circumstances. The proposed model uses multiple shifts and discreterelationship between activity time and cost to be solved by integer programming to express real-life constructionprojects, optimize project duration with minimum cost and overcome CCPM such as Student's Syndrome, Parkinson'sLaw and Multi-tasking. A simplified representation of a small example project is formulated to represent this model.Application to a Cable Stayed Bridge is included. Final solution shows that this method is simple and can be applicablefor construction of mega projects to generate a shorter time at low cost.
Adel I. Eldosouky, Ehab G. Elhosary, “A PROPOSED APPROACH FOR APPLYING CCPM CONCEPTS IN CONSTRUCTION”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 6, Issue 4, pp. 12-22, April 2019.
