Browsing by Author "Kazi, Arbaz"

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    Comparative study and decision making for a formwork technique to be adopted on a construction site in mumbai
    (IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, 2016-01) Kazi, Arbaz; Parkar, Fauwaz
    To address the housing and transportation requirements of an exponentially increasing population, Indian construction industry has grown by leaps and bounds. Thus with the globalization of Indian economy & introduction of multinational companies in India for construction activities, it has become imperative to have precise & speedy construction projects. Conventional construction methods are not able to cope with the demand of infrastructural facilities with high degree of quality control & assurance. No doubt, conventional methods prove to be economical, but they fail in providing required number of dwellings in time; hence latest construction technologies by applying fast-track construction is the only remedy left to address this issue. Formwork is an important part of construction and it takes 25-30 % of total cost of construction. Thus with the use of new technologies in formwork, construction permits casting of larger elements in a single pour, which reduces time and labour requirement as compared to conventional methods. Thus, the various new systems have promised to achieve overall economy with faster as well as high quality construction. In this paper, an attempt is made to have a comparative study of established conventional formwork technology with a set of new formwork techniques, which are currently not used much in Indian construction industry; and hence suggest which method is superior for the construction project under consideration.
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    Comparing design-build and design-bid-build project- Case of residential projects
    (Thakur College of Engineering, 2016-02-20) Kazi, Arbaz; Parkar, Fauwaz
    Every construction project is unique in nature; it needs certain resources, viz. man, material, machinery, money, methodology, time etc. in addition to conducive environment required for its successful execution. To complete any construction project vis-a-vis planned objectives within the allotted budget and stipulated time is always a difficult task for the management. With the continuous decline in profit margins and greater competition in construction projects, construction contractors are finding ways of eliminating waste and increasing profit. Although numerous approaches have been developed to improve efficiency and effectiveness of construction processes, there still seems lack of proper research to predict the performance of a particular parameter based on other factors affecting the project. Here, an attempt has been made to correlate the resource utilization for both traditional as well as fast-track construction, which would ultimately help project stakeholders, decide the optimum use of available resources. The objectives of this paper is to conduct a questionnaire survey on construction projects executed with both traditional and fast-track approach and determine Karl-Pearson’s correlation co-efficient between two independent projects (one traditional and one fast-track) w.r.t optimum resource utilization. In essence, this crux of this exercise is to help project stakeholders predict the approach to be adopted for a particular project.