How an Effective Plan Can Benefit Your Construction Project

Planning cuts a lot of the effort that most people take, a lot of people throw themselves into their work without thinking.  One of the biggest problems is the fact that no one seems to understand this.  Knowing what you’re doing beforehand will really help out.  Advance planning will save a lot of problems later in the projects.  Having a plan, an idea and a goal will save you money, effort and make several of your problems disappear.

Keep Down on Costs

Almost every construction process goes over budget.  The reason it goes over budget is the fact that people don’t plan things out well enough.  There are dozens of unexplored problems that happen throughout the project.  Last minute equipment that you need and have to pay extra for.  The things that you have to adjust and change, the employee you don’t have and zoning or legal issue you didn’t quite plan for.  These are some significant problems that happen in every project but it is much easier to cut down on what gets in the way if you bother to plan it out.  On top of this it is much easier to meet any specifications you might have.

Dome Plan Drawing by phatcontroller, on Flickr.  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Specifications

Want to be environmentally friendly?  Want to get things done quickly or work fair trade?  You have to have a part of the plan for that.  Some things are very hard to arrange, whichever way you want to do it reducing the impact on the ground and ozone layer will require specialised equipment.  Special procedures and other things that will deal with the special requirements of what you need.

Morale

For every employee it is important to know what they are doing and knowing where that fits in the overall plan can be a real boost to morale.  Feeling like you have no idea what your bosses are doing makes everything worse.  Knowing that what you’re doing has an impact on the project is good and wondering if it will ever come to anything is going to be a major blow to the work ethic.

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Scheduling

Know when you’re planning to do everything and how you’re going to do it.  You need to know when you intend to have every piece of equipment and how long you’re going to have it for.  The employees are going to have to know what they’re doing and when they have to be where.  Having a planned out schedule will help in every step of the process.  Being late will throw off the equipment schedules, and if you’ve gone to visit Mabey Hire or similar for equipment it might cost you some money.

Knowing what you’re doing is important and knowing it in advance will aid in every aspect of the production.  It will allow you to get the job done in better time, for less cost and with happier and more involved staff.

Ricky Bennet has many years in the industry in Australia.

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