Contingency Planning for Construction Project to Accommodate Delay Caused by Surprised Situations

Abstract

Construction industry is flourishing in Bangladesh day by day. It is very important to complete a project on time and with limited budget. However, people are having difficulties in the accomplishment of the project. Projects are often failed in terms of budget and time. Project planning is done prior to start of the project but it is hardly maintained in Bangladesh because many constraints and surprise situation arise in the implementation stage. These are the reasons of frequent failure of construction project in Bangladesh. To make a project planning fruitful there should be some backup planning which is known as contingency planning or a provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and/or schedule risk. Contingency planning is a systematic approach to identify what can go wrong in a situation. Rather than hoping that constrains will be constant, a planner should try to identify contingency events and be prepared with plans, strategies and approaches for avoiding, coping or even exploiting them. Various constrains may arise in case of a project. Regarding that a ranking of common constrains are made by their weightage value. In this study schedules for two projects has been made by Microsoft project. In those time schedule how downstream activities are affected due to delay of an activity has been demonstrated by different constrains scenario. Use of squeezing & overlapping as mitigation measure to overcome delay, compatibility of those tools for real project has also been shown. It is found that proper overlapping & squeezing of selected activities is adequate to overcome delay.