An Owner’s Project Planning Approach For High Rise Building In Design And Construction: A Case Study Of Petrovietnam Commercial And Financial Centre

In Vietnam, the concept and practice of Owner’s Project Planning (Cost, Scope, Schedule and Quality) have been used in recent years. The purpose of Owner’s Project Planning is to: (a) describe briefly what project planning is and how it is carried out; (b) identify the major obstacles to effective planning and suggest ways of over-coming them (Laufer, 1989).

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Loc made a research to study the owner’s project planning approach for building project in design and construction and to develop a guideline for project owner to develop project plan to ensure the completion of projects.

He found out that the use of Owner’s Project Planning in the construction industry has greatly increased in recent years. Sophisticated technology-based products has required a high degree of design, manufacture, installation, and commissioning skills that have not been readily available to the industry’s Owners. As a result, Owner should outsource to contractors including Cost, Scope, Schedule and Quality, Procurement, Risk and Safety inspection.

However, many of contractor companies do not have the necessary expertise to undertake work satisfactorily and, as a consequence, are unable to give their clients the service they require. Therefore, owners need plan approach for building in design and construction which must be done by the project owner to ensure a successful completion of project, and owners needs to develop a strategy that allow him to manage contractor effectively and efficiently.

He also found out that there are similar owner’s projects planning strategy from local owners. It can be concluded that owner’s project planning strategy in terms of procurement and cost from local owners has been aligned and organized, but in terms of schedule, quality and safety aspects, it has been yet organized. Major improvements are needed for the owner’s project planning strategy in local owner in order to improve the contractor management performance. In contrast, it can be concluded that owner’s project planning strategy from international owner in case D, has been aligned and organized in all aspects. However, there are some major points, which need to be improved in order to strengthen and continually improve the strategy performance.

His thesis abstract is copied and posted.

ABSTRACT

In Viet Nam, the concept and practice of Owner’s Project Planning (Cost, Scope, Schedule and Quality) have been used in recent years. Owner’s Project Planning Approach for the High Rise Building in Design and Construction in the Construction Industry Development has been greatly important, especially high rise building projects. Project Planning is the bridge between the ideas and execution. The purpose of Project Planning is to define the exact parameters of a project and ensure that all the pre-requisites for Project Execution and control are in place. Project planning marks the completion of the Project Plan, no work is left uncovered. At the conclusion of Project Planning, the Business Case is revised and re-evaluated based on the completed Planning documents and a decision is again made to either halt the project, or to commit the resources necessary for Project Execution and control.

The Objective of Owner’s Project Planning is effectively and efficiently including Cost, Scope, Scheduling, Quality, Procurement, Risk, Safety, Manage the relationship in terms of partnering, Leadership Style and Communication. Therefore, Owners need to develop a Project Plan that allows him to control of Design and Construction for High Rise Building Project. In order to understand how the Project Planning is being operated together with the strengths and the weaknesses of high rise building in Design and Construction, Owner’s Project Planning Approach for Petrovietnam Commercial and Financial Centre were investigated through documentation, objective, problem, archival, and interview.

The planning of capital investment project is a project process, which processes from feasibility studies, to preliminary planning and lastly to detailed planning. In this thesis, the project has focused on normative techniques of planning and control namely.

Search in the current literature deals mainly with the following types of Owner’s Project Planning Approach for High Rise Building Project in Design and Construction:
- Cost planning.
- Scope planning.
- Schedule planning.
- Quality planning.
- Risk planning.
- Procurement planning.

Project Planning, especially from the Owner point of view, is a relatively new field. After more than a decade of intensive development it is still difficult to point at significant progress in the understanding of planning principles.

A number of key elements are added to the Project Plan, including project-specific items such as change control, acceptance management and issue management, as well as externally-focused items such as organizational change management and project transition. The initial list of project risks is augmented, and detailed mitigation plans are developed.