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How to center your initiatives around planning to preserve profits and expedite delivery

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Planning for construction: what is it?

The management and execution of construction projects depend heavily on construction planning, which includes technology selection, task definition, resource estimation, task extent estimation, and identification of potential interactions and workflows between various activities.

The foundation for determining your budget and timeline for the whole scope of work is an effective construction plan. One of the most difficult and important tasks in construction management is designing and developing a construction plan.

In addition to developing the technical components, you also need to make organizational decisions regarding the connections between project stakeholders, including any subcontractors you may need to work with.

But tracking and utilizing construction data for a single project is insufficient. Long-term data storage is extremely beneficial for real estate developers. For instance, improved decision-making is one of the key benefits of maintaining CRE (commercial real estate) data.

There are three main categories of construction project planning, according to The Constructor, a website that provides information on civil engineering:

1. The process of strategic planning
It includes choosing the project’s goals at a high level. Corporate planners employed by the project owner typically handle strategic planning. The owner determines what projects to build and when to finish them, working with the project teams to create a master construction execution plan that complies with the contracting and strategic plans’ requirements.

2. Planning for operations
To achieve the project’s strategic goals, the construction teams must plan in great detail. In order to establish the construction master plan, the project teams must answer the following questions before they can specify the construction schedule: