Project Planning

• Granite Construction Company has set an example for the timely completion of many prestigious & crucial   projects through their Strategic Planning Skills.
• It plays a vital role at various stages of a project right from the incipient stage of bidding to the successful completion of the project.
• Planning division is fully equipped with Planning Software such as Enterprise 5.0 (P3e/c), Primavera 3.1 running in SQL-2000 DB server , & MS-Project 2003 for scheduling and analysing project parameters such as

         a)Client imposed constraints
         b)Project milestones
         c)Resource availability Vs deployment schedules
         d)Peak / average / total manpower analysis
         e)Budgeted Vs Actual resource deployment status
         f)Free & total float analysis
         g)PERT analysis for crucial projects
         h)Central resource pool requirements for multiple projects
         i)Critical resource analysis based on resource specific calendars
         j)Evaluating idle periods in the deployment schedule
         k)Cash-call forecasts
         l)Project’s Risk analysis

• The physical progress of any project is assessed at predetermined frequencies (daily or weekly or monthly) based on project/client requirement. Progress updates in bar chart format are done on monthlybasis to ascertain and quantify the milestone delays, overall project delays and also rescheduling of resource deployment schemes. Register base automation for Engineering and Procurement.
• The scheduling outputs from Primavera or MS-Project are post processed using in-house Progress Monitoring System for analysing various parameters like

        a)Activities start and completion delays and delays during progress of activities
        b)Activities group delays
        c)Cumulative planned Vs. actual progress analysis
        d)Period performance analysis
        e)Analysis of activity progress which is on Hold
        f)Work interruptions
        g)Productivity analysis & Rate of production for balance quantity
        h)Efficiency calculations based on current Vs target rate of production
        i)Activity codes based analysis - “as high as 6 WBS per project”
        j)WBS level status automation – all levels.
        k)Ranking of performance of various activity codes segments both cumulative as well as
           period status
        l)S-Curve analysis for various activity codes segments and also combinations thereof with
          a flexibility to draw the curve on daily/weekly fortnightly/monthly/month-end cut-off
          & odd intervals          
        m)S-Curve analysis of any particular activity
        n)Roll up S-curves.
        o)Transition and partial curve-fitting
        p)Detailed progress filters for Roll-ups and negative variance.
        q)Quantity based progress measurements and
        r)Monitoring of the above parameters based on Early or Late or Field-targets based
          programmes simultaneously

• Recovery Programmes are made on case-to-case basis incorporating the feedbacks from site / service departments, in order to assess the viability and means to bring the project on-schedule.
• Crash programmes are made specifically for a) newly introduced milestones by the client or b) unduly delayed work segment due to some unavoidable reasons.
• Projects manpower requirement (based on Early/Late/Forecast programmes) forecast are prepared at regular intervals based on ongoing / and anticipated projects’ resource requirements