Construction operations planning

Abstract

This article is based on Chapter 4. Planning of construction operations of the book Construction Operations Administration of Alfredo Serpell Bley (Chile), updating and adapting the information, as well as tropicalizing, and exemplifying the reality that is lived in the construction sector in Costa Rica. Engineer Serpell focused on operations planning: “depends on the construction managers and has the most direct influence on productivity. The context of the study of operations planning will be within the framework of the overall planning of the project interrelationships between one and the other will be highlighted permanently, and especially the fact that operations planning is a by-product of general contract or project planning. ” [1]. In the context of construction, operation means that work activity that results in the placement or installation of a definable building element, Engineer Serpell mentions that a process is: “a collection of tasks related to each other by a technological structure and a sequence. Finally, a task is the most basic work item in processes and operations.” [1].