Overview
In archaic time, humans used to build caves to stay safe from all the hazards and predators around them and additionally to sustain the safety of their family. They even managed to make homes from stones artifacts. Now, after human evolution we build our homes from cement, iron, steel, bricks, tiles etc.
Whatever the infrastructure we visually perceive in this world is constructed by humans only as per their need and requirement. Now the homes we build to live in are constructed with modern tools and technology also the time required to build a home has reduced drastically.
People tend to believe that the home in which they are living in is not only for their safety purpose but also to show it as their status symbol into the society. In his case, they expense more in constructing their homes.
Apart from this, Bridges, Platforms, Airports, Buildings, Complexes, Dams, Industries, immensely colossal Plants, Factories, Etc are all build by doing cumbersomely hefty construction only. Adroit labor is required to construct infrastructure of any place on time with 100% precision. Consequently, construction management is very paramount aspect where people with excellent experience are needed to give their expertise and validation. This proposed Construction Management System will include the entire requisite which is expected for smooth running of the process.
The construction of any infrastructure includes a hierarchy of people for it. From ground level to the top level management peoples like Workers, Project Managers, Planners, Engineers, Site Observers, are all needed for a single working area.
The Construction Work Management System includes all the detailed variety of choices for the raw material needed in pre construction like sand, stones, cement etc. the visitor or the customer can even hire employees and workers for their construction work. There are also many developed projects which are pre-uploaded on the site for the customers so that they can get a conception of how the projects would be visible after construction. We can demonstrate them the pre-construction model of their site with 3d technology blueprint apart from that the customer can give order to construct his desired property, can optically discern items to take on rent or buy them. This system is benign for customer as well as it avails in incrementing the sales of the vendors.
The key features are:
- To provide a pre developed model conception of how the site will look after completion.
- It provides one stop solution for every raw material needed for the construction of the site.
- The customer can even hire the construction workers from the vendors directly because they know all the adroit labor required for categorical sites.
- The system analyzes the requisite of the customer and estimate the cost of construction needed for the development.
- It preserves time of the customer and efficiency because now the customer doesn’t need to visit the places outside for each work.
Traditional Methodology
If anyone wanted to contrive a personal residence, office, factory, industry he needed to round around the offices of construction companies to give them tender whoever’s offer seem legitimate. The person needed to arrange even workers from remote areas and also the machines used for the process, this was very draining steps and also so many efforts were required for it along with resources.
Then after starting of the procedure, still there were many mismanagement transpires every time, from employees side to workers side, this was hampering the process and delay it, even during the construction sometimes the material was less so the customer need to again visit the vendor and make arrangements.
There were many hopes stick abaft the dream of a person who is constructing the project ergo it is obligatory to smooth run the process and on time. The workers have union who takes care of them and initiate necessary actions if there’s any mishap happens with them. Also they do politics in wages so this was a problem while dealing with the workers and if we don’t admire their demands they all go on strike and no worker would work. Sometimes they protest in the middle of the construction so the project would get paused and delayed.
If we verbalize about other markets of construction it ranges differently. It requires distinct adeptness set for other projects like for Dams, Roads, and Bridges etc. there are withal many times of engineers who are well deserved in their field of construction and also require different degrees to be a particular engineer.
Some of the imperfections of this system are:
- The procedure is hectic and very time consuming, requires a plethora of physical work.
- This system is obsolete where field roam of customer is required in large proportion.
- There was no coordination since the beginning of the project till the end process because distinct people are needed for each level of work.
- The goodwill of any construction office is the only source for attracting the customer and also the business area was limited and cannot transit for other sectors.
- There is no proper guiding authority till now who infuses the workers properly and to guide them at every step.
- The calculation of the estimated quantity of raw material is very vague and unauthentic as there’s no proper record of it.
Modern System
If anyone wanted to contrive a personal residence, office, factory, industry he needed to round around the offices of construction companies to give them tender whoever’s offer seem legitimate. The person needed to arrange even workers from remote areas and also the machines used for the process, this was very draining steps and also so many efforts were required for it along with resources.
Then after starting of the procedure, still there were many mismanagement transpires every time, from employees side to workers side, this was hampering the process and delay it, even during the construction sometimes the material was less so the customer need to again visit the vendor and make arrangements.
There were many hopes stick abaft the dream of a person who is constructing the project ergo it is obligatory to smooth run the process and on time. The workers have union who takes care of them and initiate necessary actions if there’s any mishap happens with them. Also they do politics in wages so this was a problem while dealing with the workers and if we don’t admire their demands they all go on strike and no worker would work. Sometimes they protest in the middle of the construction so the project would get paused and delayed.
If we verbalize about other markets of construction it ranges differently. It requires distinct adeptness set for other projects like for Dams, Roads, and Bridges etc. there are withal many times of engineers who are well deserved in their field of construction and also require different degrees to be a particular engineer.
Some of the imperfections of this system are:
- The procedure is hectic and very time consuming, requires a plethora of physical work.
- This system is obsolete where field roam of customer is required in large proportion.
- There was no coordination since the beginning of the project till the end process because distinct people are needed for each level of work.
- The management system became abundant and remotely discarded as no one was responsible for any mismatch in the project.
- The goodwill of any construction office is the only source for attracting the customer and also the business area was limited and cannot transit for other sectors.
- There is no proper guiding authority till now who infuses the workers properly and to guide them at every step.
- The calculation of the estimated quantity of raw material is very vague and unauthentic as there’s no proper record of it.
Modern System
As the mismanagement is perpetually prevailing in every sector irrespective of region, a central guiding system is required to coordinate and integrate a perfunctory and vigorous regime into the system and infuse them with the opportune channel to guide every step of management process.
This system is the one stop solution for all the calibers of management from blue collar people to the top level management hierarchy.
This system avails not only the customers but additionally to increment the sales of the vendor, now his business is not circumscribed to the particular region. Customers can even visually perceive the anterior work of the vendor and even compare it with the other good vendors available in the market.
It provides a user interface customary for both the customer and the vendor. The customer after registering on system can see the options of getting raw material, previous works of the vendor, can send an invoice of items he needed to buy or take it on rent, he can even make the payment through online mode directly to the vendor account linked in it.
Now from the vendor’s point of contact, the user interface provide all the admin power to him and made it superiority for the whole system that can control and navigate the system for functioning in better way. He can add or remove the account of the customers, revert them back the receipt of getting the invoice received by him, send the required documentary files to each customer systematically & particularly, track the progress of ongoing projects of various customer simultaneously without any glitch.
If any customer face technical issue while using the system he can directly contact the admin for any support. Some other features of this system are:
- Customer can place the order online through the system which is directly linked to the vendor’s account.
- He can add or remove the items he ordered from the bucket list as per the need of the project.
- Customers can track the ongoing project progress in real time mannermer can place the order online through the system which is directly linked to the vendor’s account.
- The vendor has workforce specifically for different types of the project so he can provide the workers having more qualifications.
- Trust issue doesn’t occur as both the vendor and customer can track all the activities and then coordinate accordingly.
- Customer can book heavy machinery needed for the construction site, he can take them on rent.
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
Entity Relationship Model
Comprehension:
This system’s main propaganda is to showcase a system where everything would be connected with each other ergo it needed the entity cognation model to distinguish the relational link among each entity. Here the construction projects needed a variety of adroit people at each stage and opportune unison is required consequently in this system.
Here the entities are opportunely link together and controlled by the admin entity. It can modify, change, supersede, veridical, and modify any account or process to stop any obstructions.
- Vendor (Admin):
This entity control the whole system life cycle from starting to the terminus, it gives an extra edge to the admin vendor to go that extra mile which is needed for the variety of projects. The authenticate credentials are very unique and secure to bulwark this from any malignant activity and additionally from any possible cyber attack. Only the sanctioned personnel can gain the access to this account and operate it. The stock of materials is also managed by this entity to transect the load of raw material whenever required by the vendor to transit at customer’s places. The attributes which help this entity are:
- Login_Credentials: The admin entity is primary and requires a unique login sanctions to make it more secure, therefore this attribute holds the credentials to allow the admin to access his account again.
- Connection Info: The connection information of admin is necessary to contact admin at the time of crisis. This attribute saves the connection information of the admin like contact number, email ID, address etc.
- Customer’s Bookings: The admin entity should have information of all the ongoing and upcoming projects to manage them properly and dedicate the time and resources specifically, this attribute contains detailed form of customer’s booking sources.
- Real-Time Report: A comprehensive report is required by the admin to prioritize the projects which are ongoing, therefore the real time track of every project is required by the admin.
The admin entity then further connects with the stock entity in which the calculation of raw material available, details of incipient and subsisting workers are all inscribed down in it. The customer give order to vendor about which items he needed on rent or want to buy then after vendor access the stock details and then dispatch the items to the customer’s site within stipulated duration.
2. Material (Stock):
This entity holds the details about the stock available currently in warehouse and also the items which are facing shortage and needed to be call in from the engenderment department. The vendor faces many projects simultaneously of different kinds and this projects require distinct magnitude of material to be dispatched at notionally theorized time on even a single day at sundry places of site. The attributes of this entity are:
- Categorical list: The stock entity consists of the list of items which are necessary for the construction site, so this attribute emphasize on the details of stock category wise to distinguish them properly.
- Machinery: The heavy machines are used for various purposes on construction site at different places at the same time, so to guide them accordingly, the details of each and every machine is needed to be dispatched as per the need and schedules.
- Allotment to Customer: This attribute checks in the machines and raw material provided to the customer at various time intervals to keep a track record and estimation of the payment in the end of the project completion.
The customer entity is required to establish the proper channel among each entity because customer is the main prospect of this hierarchy, and customer is the person who books the raw material and provide the project according to him as customizable accordingly.
- Customer:
The customer entity holds the information of each project which is given by each customer to the vendor according to his desideratum. This entity has options which a customer requires relish to check the genuine time update of his perpetual project, changes made by him in middle of the project completion etc. the required attributes are:
- Name: The designation of every incipient customer is required to identify them according to their respective projects.
- Login_ID: The ID of every customer is distinct ergo the credential should be unique to establish the auspice and security of the entire customer.
- Connection Info.: The information for communication with customer is obligatory at any time, so this attribute holds the details of contact number, address and other personal delegators.
- Booking Material: The project of construction needs raw material which is booked by the customer, so this attribute keeps a record of the items customer booked to buy or taken on rent.
- Status: When the project is ongoing then the regular update of completion is provided to the customer and the information retain in this attribute.
- Payment: The customer can pay the charges in advance or after the completion of the project through online mode also by net banking, debit or credit card.
Use Case Diagram
This diagram denotes the interface of the admin as well as the customer or user. As both the actors are distinct therefore there are certain changes which are made for the beneficial of the actors. They distinguish by the color and theme used to make the interface.
Login:
The first page which opens at the time of login for both the admin and the user is the login page where they need to enter the login credentials unique designed by the system and provides extra security.
Splashboard:
After login the base page which opens is the dash board where the variety of options available for both the actors distinctly as the admin has controls option to govern the system while the user can change or update his own account only.
Material (stock):
The material option opens in the interface of the user there he can select the type of material he require based on the choice and estimated cost he can handle. Also it depend upon the area size of the place where the user wants the construction.
Purchase:
The system provides list of material and then after choosing it gives you the option to ad in the cart more than one items can be buy at the same time from the system.
Charges:
After selecting the type of raw material the customer can go to the payment gateway by the system where the customer can pay the estimate amount calculated by the system.
Feedback:
The customer can provide feedback about the service he got from the admin and the company this feedback directly go to the admin where he’ll reply as early as possible