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MS Project Housing Construction Guide

The document describes a project to build a small house using Microsoft Project to manage the schedule and the resources assigned to the tasks. It includes instructions for setting up the project in MS Project, including the creation of calendars and the assignment of tasks, resources, durations, and links between the tasks. It also includes steps to optimize resources, create a baseline, and compare the actual progress of the project with the plan.

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MS Project Housing Construction Guide

The document describes a project to build a small house using Microsoft Project to manage the schedule and the resources assigned to the tasks. It includes instructions for setting up the project in MS Project, including the creation of calendars and the assignment of tasks, resources, durations, and links between the tasks. It also includes steps to optimize resources, create a baseline, and compare the actual progress of the project with the plan.

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University of Carabobo

Faculty of Engineering
School of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Design Department

Housing project as an example of


use of
Microsoft Project MS

Subject: Projects III


Students:
Juan Ramírez 25682574

Naguanagua, 11/20/2022
Housing construction project

It is about building a small house. The characteristics of the project are


simple with a single purpose, to understand the management of MS Project with a single
exercise that is described below:

PROJECT CONFIGURATION
1.: Configure MS. Project for this project as follows:
MY HOUSE
Subject: Construction
Author: "Write your Name in this space"
[Link], Editing and Assignment of Calendars.

- The MI CASA Project should start on December 1, 2022.

- Create a new calendar for this project called 'My House'.

- Change the work schedule as follows:

From Monday to Friday: from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturdays: from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
No work: Set the calendar from the month of December to July of
2023 with all the holidays corresponding to our calendar.
- Assign the 'My House' calendar to all resources assigned to the project.

[Link] the project with the name 'My House'.

TASK REGISTRATION
[Link] following tasks with their respective durations are entered.
5. Insert a task at the beginning and name it 'Foundation Phase'.

[Link] below the task 'Make the base', the task 'Structural Phase'.

[Link] the task 'Mechanical Phase' below the task 'Ceiling Filling'.

[Link] below the task 'Electricity', the task 'Exterior Finish Phase'
Interior.

[Link] the end of each Phase, there must be a milestone named 'End of the Phase.'

[Link] the task Project Summary and name it 'Project'


My House Construction

[Link] indentation to identify the phases and tasks.

[Link] tasks 'Floor' and 'Ceiling Filling' have a fixed duration.

[Link] the tasks in the following way:

Foundation Phase:
The task 'Creating the base' begins when the task ends.
Prepare the ground.
Structural Phase:
o The task 'Walls' begins when the task 'Columns and beams' ends.
The task "Floor" begins along with the task "Walls."
oThe task "Formwork Roof" begins when the tasks "Floor" and "Walls"
they have concluded.

oThe task 'Ceiling Filling' begins when the task 'Ceiling Formwork' has
completed.
Mechanical Phase:
oThe task 'Plumbing' must have a postponement of 5 days after
task 'Roof Filling' completed
oThe task 'Electricity' starts when the task 'Plumbing' finishes.
Phase Exterior and Interior Finish:
oThe tasks 'Install Doors' and 'Install Windows' begin at the same time.
time.
oThe task "Decoration" starts when the previous task has a start of
50%.
[Link] a column for the WBS and check that all tasks are included.

linked.

[Link] milestone must be linked to the previous task and the first task of the phase.

next.

[Link] the 'Critical Path'.

[Link] resources to be used are shown in the following table:

[Link] Rosas will only be available 50% of the time for the project.
[Link] the following resources to the respective tasks:
[Link] the people involved in filling the roof (only for this task)
they have a surcharge of 50% of the assigned cost.

[Link] electrician Juan Salas has 4 overtime hours.

[Link] tasks Installing doors and Installing windows are paid when they have been completed.
the work.

OPTIMIZATION
If you observe overallocated resources, you can automatically redistribute them.
applying the function or manually according to your construction knowledge.

FOLLOW-UP
[Link] and save the project baseline.

[Link] with the actual plan, to do this simulate the progress of the project:

Task: Prepare ground 100%

Task: Create the base

100% Task: Columns and

beams 80%

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