Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management

Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management (한국건설관리학회)
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IT Model to Calculate Required Equipments for Excavation Work in Construction Projects

  • Mahajan, Darshan A. (National Institute of Construction Management And Research) ;
  • Rajput, Babalu L. (National Institute of Construction Management And Research)
  • Received : 2012.11.12
  • Accepted : 2013.07.12
  • Published : 2013.12.01
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Abstract

Excavation is most commonly used activity in all construction projects. All contracting agencies prefer to use bigger and heavier excavators and dumpers on site to do excavations if quantity of excavation is huge. Estimation of required number of excavators and dumpers for completion of excavation could be rather a tedious process involving repetitive calculation on which professionals spend their valuable time. As the Information Technology is highly involved in construction section there os need to have IT model for estimation of number of excavators and dumpers. The developed model is useful to calculate required equipments within short period of time. The purpose of the developed IT model is to save the time and efforts of the construction professional. The paper discusses about model which can be used on site to estimate numbers of excavators and dumpers required for completion of certain quantity of excavation within the given time. The calculation considers various existing formulas and method to generate the output. This information could certainly be useful in planning equipments on construction project sites. The tool is user friendly where any non IT background person can use it on construction sites.

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