Research Journal of The University of Zagreb, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Organization, Technology & Management in Construction: An International Journal
ISSN 1847-5450 print / ISSN 1847-6228 online
udc 62:658(05)

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2. Levente Mályusz, Miklós Hajdu:


How would you like it: cheaper or shorter

Abstract:

Least cost scheduling techniques were accomPanying the history of modern Project management, however they have never gained much importance in the practice. Even in our days only a few computer application provide this kind of feature to the users. In this paper a generalized PDM least cost scheduling problem will be introduced, and a case study will be presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the model. The case study is based on a highway construction project, where the least cost sched-
uling technique developed by the authors was used in applied in order to calculate the minimum direct cost solution to a given project duration. The authors came to a conclusion that least cost scheduling can be a useful tool in the cost planning of the projects, however further
research are necessary (e.g. handle of the activity calendars) to make the model suitable for everyday use.

Keywords:

project management, scheduling, cost