Effective Scheduling and Time Management of Dhamra Railway Project Using Primavera P6

Indian construction industry is growing quickly and huge development projects are going on. Most certainly it’s justifiably or in a roundabout way connected with the Indian economy, the speed with which projects complete have appeared to influence the GDP of the country. Appropriate scheduling and planning are substantial in construction projects for decreasing and controlling postponements of the project, while an error in the same causes squandering of a significant quantity of time, capital, resources, and quality. Despite firm principles and policies, the monitoring process may be inefficient because of the practical problems prevailing or rising in the project. An attempt has been made in realizing the practical problems in project execution will contribute to proper recognition of the problem areas and implementing mitigation. The main objectives of this study are to plan, schedule, monitor, and control a railway infrastructure i.e. Dhamra Railway Project, Orissa, India with the help of Oracle Primavera P6 software. The review of various research articles has been performed and twenty-five factors from nine categories are shortlisted for the study and the time factor is considered for analysis. Thereafter, critical time analysis of the project has been performed, listing project activities with duration, their logical relationships, scheduling, and network updating considering factors from the nine categories. The main challenges leading to delays are climate, government approvals, material availability, and the remote project location. Further, project crashing is done by provision of additional labour resources to critical activities and observation can be made that a raise of 21% of labour resources would offer a reduction of 17% of the activity completion time, this trend doesn’t imply that surging the resources directly reduces duration, it will reduce duration but up to the minimum fundamental duration required only.