- Author
- Construction Industry Institute
- Title
- Schedule Reduction.
- Coporate
- Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX
- Report
- Publication 41-1, April 1995, 36 p.
- Keywords
- construction
- Abstract
- Owners are demanding higher quality in their construction projects, and that the projects be delivered at lower costs and within shortened durations. Recent research by CII reveals that meeting such demands is possible, and that using specific schedule reduction techniques can assist in reducing project durations without escalating total installed cost. The Construction Industry Institute established three broad industry goals for the Year 2000; reduce total project costs by 20 percent, reduce project schedules by 20 percent, and improve recordable accident rates by 25 percent. In pursuit of the second of these three goals, CII established the Schedule Reduction Research Team. The purpose of the team was to investigate the efforts by the engineering and construction industry and other industries in the use of techniques that can bring about reductions in project duration. This publication is a summary report on the research. The team examined case studies of successful projects, which showed that the following five techniques are highly effective in reducing project durations: [*] Freeze of project scope; [*] Constructability; [*] Concurrent engineering; [*] Cycle time analysis; [*] Use of electronic media.