UNIVERSITY ANOTHER LOB QUESTION MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA Prepare a line of balance sc

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UNIVERSITY ANOTHER LOB QUESTION MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA Prepare a line of balance schedule for a smalcontract of 15 houses based on a rate of build ofthree houses per week assuming fve eight-hour days per week A minimum butter offive days should be assumed Table shows the Table operations, labour-hours and number of operatives. Optimum number of Labour-hours operatives per operation A Substructure B Brickwork C Joiner, first fix D Tilers Solve Only part (c) F Joiner, second fix G Electrician H Plumber I Painter gRaratonstogether with the estimated labourhours and optimum number of operatives for each operation. The sequence of operations is shown in Figure below. Fig: Construction Plan for one House Calculate the follouing The theoretical number of gangs required The actual number of gangs to be used by you and why you have chosen that number of gangs for the job. The natural rate of the houses per week. The elapsetme between the start on the first pylon and the last one. (a) Draw the Line of Balance Schedule (b What is the overalduraton of the project? (c Give three (3) suggestons on how to reduce the overal duration ofthe project

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Since you need only to solve Part c.Here is the answer.

Suggestions to reduce the overall time duration of the project are:

1. Crashing:

Crashing has to be done of the activities such that each activity will be a critical activity.It will reduce the time duration of the project.

2. Resource allocation :

Proper allocations of the labour and materials must be done so as to reduce the project duration.

3. The activities which are independent of each other may be started simultaneously so as to reduce overall time duration of the project.

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