Control Indicators for Resource Leveling in Project Network Planning

DOI

10.2991/asei-15.2015.217How to use a DOI?

Keywords

project network planning; resource leveling; construction management; control indicators

Abstract

In construction project management, the increase of project cost due to resource fluctuation is widespread. This paper proposed new resource leveling control indicators reflecting resources idle and resources mobilizing. According to the disadvantages of traditional control indicators of resource leveling in project network planning, considering the substantial increased costs due to resources fluctuation, based on the classification of extra costs, this study found out the relationship between resource imbalance and extra costs, analyzed resources idle and resources mobilizing cost variation caused by resource imbalance. Thus, the control indicators of resources and resources mobilizing reflecting resource leveling are proposed. In addition, based on case study, the feasibility of the control indicators proposed in this paper for resource leveling in project network planning was validated. The information is valuable in practical application for the resource leveling optimization in engineering project management.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mengrui Shao
AU  - Xun Liu
PY  - 2015/05
DA  - 2015/05
TI  - Control Indicators for Resource Leveling in Project Network Planning
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International conference on Applied Science and Engineering Innovation
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1097
EP  - 1102
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/asei-15.2015.217
DO  - 10.2991/asei-15.2015.217
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