• P.LOKAMBRA
• G.MANEESH BABU

Repetitive construction projects represent a large portion of the construction industry. Construction projects that contain several identical or similar units are usually referred to as repetitive projects which include multi-storey buildings, pipelines, highways, and housing developments projects. Although the conventional critical path method (CPM) has been widely used in scheduling construction projects, it possesses various deficiencies in scheduling repetitive projects. The Repetitive Scheduling Method (RSM) recognizes the additional resource continuity constraint that cannot be shown in a CPM network, and thus provides for continuous resource usage. It incorporates commonly accepted activity precedence concepts from CPM, and can be applied to both vertical and horizontal projects that may contain either discrete or continuous activities. An RSM schedule is presented graphically as an X-Y plot of a series of production lines, each of which represent a repetitive activity. RSM introduces the controlling sequence of activities as a new concept for the determination of the project duration. This sequence includes activities between control points on successive unit production lines and extends from projects start to project finish. RSM diagrams are easy to prepare and understand, and the unique concepts of control points and controlling sequence are quickly comprehended. Thus, RSM has all the necessary performance characteristics to serve as a convenient and practical tool for scheduling multi-unit projects. In this thesis, a plan of 5-storeyed building project is considered in order to represent how RSM can help in achieving work continuity. The total project duration can also be reduced by changing the unit-production rates of various activities. The increase in the unit production rate depends on the availability of the resources. The resource availability needs to be checked before the unit production rate of activities is increased. It has been observed that by increasing the unit production rates of certain activities, the total project duration may be increased the unit production rates of certain activities, the total project duration may be increased after the application rates of certain activities, the total project duration may be increased after the application of RSM. In such cases, there is a need to apply necessary work breaks in order to decrease the total project duration.

"CASE STUDY ON REPETITIVE SCHEDULING METHOD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.444-472, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903667.pdf

"CASE STUDY ON REPETITIVE SCHEDULING METHOD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp444-472, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903667.pdf