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العنوان
Difficulties of Implementing Earned Value Management in Construction Sector in Egypt \
المؤلف
Hussein, Lamisse Raed Ahmed.
هيئة الاعداد
باحث / لميس رائد أحمد حسين
مشرف / أحمد شريف عيسوي
مشرف / إبراهيم عبد الرشيد
مشرف / إبراهيم محمود مهدي
تاريخ النشر
2019.
عدد الصفحات
146 p. :
اللغة
الإنجليزية
الدرجة
ماجستير
التخصص
الهندسة المدنية والإنشائية
تاريخ الإجازة
1/1/2019
مكان الإجازة
جامعة عين شمس - كلية الهندسة - الهندسة المدنية
الفهرس
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Abstract

Earned value project management (EVM) is a known system for project management that allows the integration between cost, schedule and technical performance. By using EVM cost and schedule variances, performance indices, forecasts of project cost and duration can be calculated.
Recently EVM is being criticized due to its conceptual problems and implementation difficulties. During the construction phase, EVM implementation is facing some problems that may diminish the effectiveness of using earned value as a control technique. Besides, the accuracy of Earned Value Analysis (EVA) indicators may impede the correct implementation of EVM.
The objective of this thesis is to identify and analyze factors behind the deficiencies of the (EVA) when applied to projects that are executed within the construction sector.
The thesis presents an overview of how the EVA has been developed to become a performance tool and control technique for projects and how it can contribute to the users in comparison with the traditional cost method and finally EVA calculations are presented.
Furthermore, this thesis examines the existing literature dealing with the reasons EVA fails to provide the desired outcome, Earned Value Analysis (EVA) is implemented on two different construction projects showing the effect of these difficulties on EVA results, the effect of using Earned Schedule and the effect of applying the revised-baseline. Analysis results are verified by comparing the results of cost and duration forecasting equations with the actual status of the projects and by implementing Building Information Modeling (BIM) on one case study to show its effect on EVM analysis.
To achieve this objective, a structured questionnaire and interviews had also been performed.
The author concluded that the technical problems mainly affect project’s time control, while the project’s cost control is affected mainly by the financial problems. There are some problems facing the actual cost recording that may impede the implementation of EVM as a control technique. By investigating the accuracy and stability of EVA indicators, it had been found that the main problem that made schedule indices inaccurate is the overestimation of planned values leading to high deviation between planned values and actual cost. For cost and duration forecasting equations, it is found that cost estimation equations using schedule performance factors have the worst accuracy due to the instable schedule indicators. By implementing BIM it’s confirmed that EVM/BIM tool is a powerful management technique and the integration between both concepts is complementary through using the results obtained from EVM analysis and to be converted visually on a BIM model.