company has taken a contract for landscaping a plot of land. The job would requi

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company has taken a contract for landscaping a plot of land. The job would require workers, supervisors, excavators, tractors and a variety of trees, bushes, and shrubs beside stones in various colors and shapes. In order to simplify the matter, we presume that only labor would be required.

Details are given in the table below about activities, duration and labor requirement. Each day, 6 workers are available to finish-up the activities.

Apply the resource-leveling technique to the above activities. Postpone some activities, if needed. The ultimate objective would be to complete the project within same time constrains and without any shortage/surplus of the labor.

Activity Days Workers Required Precedent A 2 6 B 5 13 C 1 3 A D 4 8 A E 2 6 B, C F 6 13 B, C G 2 5 B, C

Explanation / Answer

Here , in one day only 6 workers are available, so i have created a table for each day. and activities performed,
Total no. of days taken to complete all the activities is 10.

Activity Day Workers Required A 1 6 A 2 6 B 3 3 C 3 3 B 4 6 B 5 4 D 5 2 D 6 6 E 7 6 F 8 1 G 8 5 F 9 6 F 10 6

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