Administración y programación de obra

Abstract

The general panorama of the constructions is diverse and of great complexity. These two characteristics originate, on the one hand, in the great quantity of human and material elements that are necessary to achieve their execution, and on the other hand, in the varied range of relations of these elements among themselves and the same activities to which they give rise. These circumstances mean that at certain times, when a work is being executed, it is not clear what the path to advance it in a technical, rational, and orderly manner can be. The external aspect of the works, in addition, gives the appearance, many times, of something chaotic and difficult to arrange. For a large number of cases, however, this is only an appearance. In the midst of all the elements that concur for the accomplishment of a construction, it is not only possible but imperiously necessary to find an order of execution that allows to take the works ordered, methodical and functionally. What is the way to carry out this objective? On the one hand, it is necessary to find a way to interrelate the human and material elements by channelling them - to achieve the same end. The administration aims among its various objectives to resolve this point. At the same time, the urgent need to foresee both economic and performance results over time has led to the availability of elaborate methods for this purpose: (time) schedules and budgets or cost schedules. The present text aims at informing and training the student in the handling of these three elements of vital importance for the advancement of the current construction activity.