NDLI: Planning with uncertainties for a heritage building restoration project in Calcutta, India

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Guha, S.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Jadavpur Univ., Calcutta (Guha, S.)
Abstract	Planning for a heritage building restoration project is complex because the scope of structural repair can be only ascertained during execution. In addition, workings with traditional materials that are not normally used presently create further difficulties in planning. The restoration for great eastern hotel said to be the oldest hotel in India has been started in Calcutta, India and simultaneously, this study is undertaken to record the uncertainty of project duration and costing. A Gantt chart was prepared at the conception stage. Stakeholders were interviewed to estimate the pessimistic, mean and optimistic duration of each task in the Gantt chart. A Monte Carlo simulation based on a triangular distribution of the estimated time variations is conducted to estimate the statistics of duration. The Gantt chart is revised and simulation process is repeated with the progress of the project. The temporal distribution of time periods and associated deviations found from simulations are compared. Similar exercise is also executed for estimated costing at the various planning stages. The study indicates that a traditional Gantt chart estimate is not accurate for a project where a number of factors are unknown at the inception.
Starting Page	1018
Ending Page	1021
File Size	486886
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424415281
DOI	10.1109/IEEM.2007.4419346
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-12-02
Publisher Place	Singapore
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Technological innovation Heritage building Uncertainty Job shop scheduling Costing Building materials Project management Interference Watches Monte Carlo Simulation Gantt chart Tiles Statistical distributions
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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