Resource Management - Productivity -.pdf

Introduction to resource management VTU CME

1. Resource Management
Abhishek R
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Civil Engineering
JSS Academy of Technical Education
Bengaluru
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3. Resource Management:
•A resource is an entity. It contribute to the accomplishment of project activities such as
manpower, material, money, equipment, time.
•Resource management is the efficient use of resource in order to achieve a goal.
•Consists of planning, estimation and obtaining various types of resource during pre-construction
stage and control their utilization during examination stage.
•For the project execution, the physical resources required are: manpower of different categories,
construction materials, equipment and other site specific infrastructure facilities in terms of
water, power, roads, communication and other required facilities.
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4. Manpower Resource
•Manpower resource under the categories of construction workers and technicians shall be
planned for their quantities, skills and time of required based on the project details, WBS, time
schedule and estimates.
•Necessary resource levelling shall be carried out to short out the peak demands exceeding the
resource availability and also to resolve ideal labour situation by rescheduling certain activities
within the available floats without delaying project completion time.
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6. Construction Materials
•Material constitutes a major proportion of project
cost.
•Material resource management involves
identification of various categories of material
requirements, market survey about their source of
availability, cost and leads involved, estimation of
total quantities, determining the quantum and
timing of requirements as per project schedule,
procurement process from suppliers and delivery
at site.
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7. Construction Equipment
•During the equipment resource planning process, the equipment type and production capacities are
decided based on the project requirements including the site constraints, on site availability of the
equipment and durations of their deployment are worked out in relation to project schedule and
quantum of work involved.
•For example, the capacity of concrete batching plant is worked out based on the quantum of concrete
operations which are levelled considering the peak and low demand volumes.
•The procurement process of the equipment, economic considerations of owning and operating costs or
hiring on rental/lease costs needs to be considered.
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10. Class of Labour
•Casual labour:
•Employed as and when required for the execution of work, payment is made on the basis of the number
of days the labour works. There is no provision of leave, expect the weekly holidays. Also known as
daily labour.
•Regular Labour:
•Generally includes supervisory personal that are required for more or less continuous period during
construction.
•They are paid monthly wages and entitled to leave and other benefits.
•Employee may be temporary or permanent.
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11. Wages and Statutory Requirement
Payment of Wages
Remuneration given to workers for work performed by them is known as wages.
▪Nominal Wages: Paid to the workers in the form of money, but it does not include the value of any
other benefit that may be provided.
▪Real Wages: Labour is entitled to different benefits, such as leave, medical care, house rent allowance,
bonus etc. If the value of such benefits is added to the nominal wage, it is known as real wage.
Wages are paid to the labour based on two methods:
▪Time rate system: Depending upon time devoted to the work.
▪Piece rate system: Depending upon the quantity of work performed.
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12. Minimum Wages Act, 1948
▪Wages of a worker in any scheduled employment shall be paid on working day by,
✓The 7
th
day after the last day of the wage period if the establishment has less than 1000 employees.
✓The 10
th
day after the last day of the wage period if the establishment has more than 1000 employees.
▪The wages of an employee should be paid without any deduction expect those items given below.
✓Absence from duty.
✓Loss of goods directly attributed to the neglect of employee.
✓Accommodation provided by employer.
✓Amenities & services provided by the employer.
✓Income tax.
✓Subscription to the provident fund
✓Payment to LIC.
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13. Workmen Compensation Act, 1923
Act was passed to protect victims of accident and their families from hardships. The compensation is not
payable for injuries due to,
•Disobedience or negligence
•Non observance of safety measures
•Consumption of liquor
•Diseases which are not contructed as a result of occupation.
Where as in case of death of a worker, compensation is paid under all circumsatnces.
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14. Contd..
Accidents are due to,
•Human causes such as poor eye sight, negligence, effect of intoxicants.
•Mechanical causes such as inadequate safety devices, live electrical equipments, unreliable scaffoldings
etc.
•Environmental causes such as poor lighting, heat, noise etc.
The result of an accident may be.
•Temporary disablement, which may be total or partial.
•Permanent total/partial disablement.
•Death
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15. Contract Labour Act, 1970
•Registration of the Establishment:
•Licensing of Contractor:
•Welfare and Health of Contract Labour: Following facilities are to be provided.
▪When work is likely to continue for more than 3 months, where labour is required to halt at night. The
contractor should provide rest rooms. Separate rooms for women.
▪For works likely to continue for more than six months and employing more than 100, an canteen must
be provided.
▪Restrooms must be maintained in clean and sanitary condition.
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16. Labour Production Rate or Productivity
•Productivity in construction is broadly defined as output per labour hour.
•Since labour constitutes a larger part of construction cost and the quantity of labour hours is performing a
task in construction is more easily influenced to the management than material . This productivity, measure
is often referred to as a labour productivity.
•Labour productivity is a measure of the overall effectiveness of an operating system in utilizing labour,
equipment and capital to convert labour efforts into useful output and is not a measure of capabilities of
labour alone.
•Construction output may be expressed as functional units or constant rate. Ex. Cubic yard/hr or rate/hr
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17. Productivity at Job Site
•It is convenient to express labour productivity as functional units per labour hour for each type of
construction task.
For example: Cubic Yard of concrete placed per hour is lower level of measures than miles of highway
paved per hour.
•Higher level - Convenient for developing industry wide standards of performance.
•Lower level – Monitoring individual activities.
•Once a standard is set up at an industry level one can compare each work against the company average.
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18. Factors Affecting Productivity
The labour characteristic include,
•Age, skill and experience of work force
•Leadership and motivation of workforce
The project work conditions include other factors:
•Local climate
•Local cultural characteristic, particularly in foreign operation
•Contractual agreement
•Equipment utilization
•Labour availability
•Job size and complexity
•Job accessibility.
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19. The non-productive activities include,
•Strikes
•Rework for correcting unsatisfactory work
•Time off for union activities
•Absentee time, including late start and early quits
•Temporary work stoppage due to weather or material shortage
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