PLANNING AND SCHEDULING
6.1.2 Resource planning
Resource planning refers to the planning of funds,
materials and labour required for the project.
Among them, planning and scheduling of labour
is discussed below.
Labour resources planning and scheduling
Local human resources are optimally mobilised
in gravity ropeway construction work. In most
cases, the local communities contribute unskilled
and semi skilled labour and their time. Their
contribution leads to local ownership of the
ropeway system in the community. Since events
like holidays, festivals, plantation and harvest
seasons, and monsoons might significantly affect
the work schedule, the number of people and
days required for installation of each ropeway
should be worked out depending upon the time
availability of the labour inputs and working hours.
The estimated number of people for each activity
and time taken for each task are then reconciled
to give the exact number of person days required
for that activity. This is very important as the
work supervisor or construction committee should
ensure the required person days within a given
time. A typical person days scheduling is shown
above in the figure accompanied by the graph
showing weekly variation of person days.
6.1.3 Technical planning
The technical planning includes the time planning
for survey, design and revisions. Following figure
shows the typical technical planning in table 4.
Table 4: A typical technical planning for gravity ropeway
Activities
1) Survey and design
Details
Detailed Technical survey
Deign and estimation
Design hecking and approval
Source: Access for Opportunities project, Practical Action Nepal Office
Time /Weeks
1234
31