What is Construction Planning and How Does it Add Value to Projects?

What is Construction Planning?

Building and construction projects are hugely complex, with so much variability in relation to resources, location, weather, economic conditions, and more. Construction planning is the process of planning the time frames required to successfully complete a construction project. This work is typically detailed through each stage in a project life cycle - from feasibility/development stage, to the concept stage, to the tender stage, and of course, the construction stages.

?How Does it add value?

Good Construction Planning will help provide clarity over a project's timeframes and milestones, but it will also help you manage risk. How?

(1) it will assist with decision-making at all life cycle stages and help identify (and address) any potential issues arising

(2) it will provide the opportunity to monitor, assess and report timings?and?options that enable a construction team to apply the correct methodology to be adopted to match the desired project aspirations i.e. design approach, procurement approach, and construction methodology and sequencing

(3) it will avoid wasted time, reacting to and replanning work to resolve current project delays.?

?Key Ingredients

The best project planning requires planners to encourage collaborative input from the project team and should draw upon current industry productivity and benchmark data. This will ensure that a robust plan forward is established and ready for monitoring and modeling forward looking?“what if“?scenarios.

?To find out more, or discuss your project, talk to the friendly Zancon team.