Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Project Schedule and Quality Planning and Control in Construction Management: A Case Study of the New Facility Development at Saigon High-tech Park – Jabil Vietnam


Vietnam is in the process of development to become an industrialized country. Development of large-scale industrial zones, infrastructure system, plants, ports, express highway system, elevated roads, and the like have contributed to the change of national economic face. Thus, organizing and managing construction works in projects increasingly become critical demand for recent years. Until now, satisfying criteria in project management in accordance with the requirements on management of human resources, cost, schedule, quality and scope of the project has large influence on the success of enterprise.


Many planning models to control the project have been applied to projects in the domain of construction in Vietnam and nations in the world. Setting project management plans based on general process started with analyzing task lists and integration process shall result in emulation on total period, resource and related costs required for project implementation and those shall support project managers and construction engineers to have a general and detailed view on work items. From that, further breakdown of work items per month, week, and day shall be established.

Implementing processes and methods to manage the project mean that we must have preventive plans against project problems. Preventing problems shall reduce the cost and is the optimal plan for a successful project executing process.           Mr. Pham Van Long made a case study which objectives were to: (i) study project planning for construction project schedule and quality; (ii) study project controlling strategy during the execution phases; (iii) identify lessons learn in project planning and control strategy; and (iv) develop a framework for project planning and control.

Conclusion:

Generally, this report gives a general vision on approaching, researching and exploring sequence steps in establishing planning of construction schedule, quality and human’s resources and resources of project before execution. These are four main factors which not only affect directly to all projects cost but also deciding project success.

Besides, this report also specifically presents controlling procedure that was done such as procedure of quality controlling, procedure of schedule controlling and procedures of checking, reporting project manpower and resources data.

Based on practical application in this case study, compared with theory research and from lesson, book as well as practical experience in execution, the author analyzed the strength and weakness during the course of process, scope of 02 main sections of the stated study model (quality and schedule), from that, it is easy to recognize score issues effect to quality and project schedule. Throughout this case study, we propose a solution to improve and develop strategy in the coming time and give a recommendation framework in making planning and control planning for enterprise so that it could be applied in bigger project in the future.

His thesis abstract is copied and posted below


Since the 1990’s, construction companies and business organizations throughout the world have begun to focus on the process of creating quality products and satisfy requirements of the schedule progress of the construction project. During the course of establishing planning ,schedule, progress and quality have been set up by construction enterprises based on variation modulus, for example: applying MS project on monitoring schedule, primavera, excel and other means to control, monitor quality, cause and effect analysis, PDCA cycle, … The above-mentioned means help project management units easily analyze, control and follow up progress and project quality status, especially in construction field.

In large-scale companies, after many years implementing project, they have accumulated many database, important experiences to support them in the course of establishing schedule and quality plan as well as human resource in order that construction duration has executed quickly. Plans have been carried out based on company’s established procedures. Implementing plans included schedule, quality, human resource, cost and risk in construction project management.

This case study mainly focused on analyzing process of establishing plan and controlling plan of procedure, project quality in medium-size limited company in Vietnam. From applying practical construction experience together with operation procedure that built up by company, schedule and project quality were executed based on the following steps: Firstly: development construction process included: definite work scope of project, analyze activity list by WBS, standardize schedule. Secondly: creating schedule consisted: type of schedule, implementing work list, schedule activity duration, work activities relation, constrain and milestone. Thirdly: implementing and controlling schedule.

During the time of making and controlling quality, contractor executed based on 03 main steps that are establishing project quality plan, execution quality assurance and quality control.

In conclusion, this report after being finalized and completed shall be a significant proposal for improvement and development of enterprises, especially construction department. If this framework is applied successfully, it shall bring potential benefits for company in the future.

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