A case study of programs the application of work ratio and construction planning

Abstract

In general construction, planning is an important activity because it is a component of the construction process which has currently been developed into various ways that may affect the construction planning in term of time and budget; the actual performance may be delayed or lag behind the planned schedule or the budget is not corresponding to the planned construction. The results found that construction planning remained erroneous and inaccurate, thereby resulted that the project did not meet the planned construction. In present study, the calculation program was developed to calculate the construction plan and cost by which the Visual Basic 6 application was implemented to the construction. The instrument used in the study included the questionnaires. Data analysis was performed using the descriptive statistics; percentage and the reliability of data. In this study, the application ensures the accurate calculation and the results are close to the actual use. To ensure the planned construction performance, the calculating budget based on the Earned Value Analysis was focused. The analysis of the value-focused performance was to realize the planned budget and actual budget, as well as to demonstrate the time of construction in each stage to ensure the planning and planned performance improvement and to ensure the maximum performance for each constructing process. The author-developed questionnaires were to assess the user’s satisfaction with the trial application. The sample included a total of 15 subjects; engineers and other related persons. The questionnaires consists four parts; Part 1 - general information about the respondents, Part 2 – inquiring about the application for the performance to construction planning ratio, Part 3 – inquiring about technological application to the construction, and lastly Part 4 - the respondents’ opinion. The results showed the introduction of the application to construction could improve the speediness by 86.67 percent, reduced errors in calculation by 100 percent and improve the efficiency in planning by 93.33 percent.