iosr-JMCE   Volume-11 ~ Issue-6 ~ Nov-Dec 2014

Abstract: Scheduling using MSP Software is a process which involves estimation, sequencing the activities, resources allocation and timing. The construction scheduling is to complete the project in time and match the resources with the allocated time. Scheduling using MSP Software gives good controlling and clear schedule to a project. EV Analysis is a standard method of measuring a project's progress at any given point of time, forecasting its completion date, final cost and analysis variance in the schedule and budget of the project. This project deals with scheduling using MSP and EV Analysis for a apartment building. Thereby process time and cost overrun are avoided..

[1] K.Ananthanarayanan, MPSS: Multiple Project Scheduling Software, journal of Nicmar,PP.19-28.
[2] K.K.Chitkara, Construction Project Management, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, New Delhi, pp. 180-218.
[3] K.C.iyer, K.N.jha, Critical Factors Affecting Schedule Performance: Evidence from Indian Construction projects, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management@ASCE,August, PP. 871-880.
[4] M.N.Khaled, Y.H.Mohamed, Developing a complexity measures for project schedule, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, June 2006, pp.554-561.
[5] M.N.Khaled, Y.H.Mohamed, Developing a complexity measures for project schedule, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, June 2006, pp.554-561.
[6] Mario, Work continuity constraints in project scheduling, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management@ASCE,January2006, pp4-24.

Abstract: Now days, a Small buildings are replaced by high rise buildings and sky scrapers. This arises one of the problem in deriving natural light in building, due to obstruction of nearby structures. Due to this problem use of artificial sources for illumination of building is increased by great amount. LiTraCon (light transmitting concrete) successfully produced the first transparent concrete block in 2003, It is very essential to reduce the artificial light consumption in structure, Since concrete is strong in compression and weak in tension and flexure Keywords: Translucent concrete, optical fibre, energy saving, smart construction

[1]. Basma F. Bashbash. (2013). "Basics of light Transmitting Concrete", pp 079-083, (2013)
[2]. Jianping He. (2011). "Study on Smart Transparent Concrete Product and its performances", 6thinternational workshop on advanced smart materials and smart structures technology, (2011)
[3]. IS: 10262-1982 Recommended Guidelines for Concrete Mix Design.
[4]. Victoria Bailey, Translucent Concrete, published on MEEN 3344-001, 11:00-11:50 MWF
[5]. http://www.materialproject.org/wiki/Translucent_concrete
[6]. http://www.luccon.de/en
[7]. http://www.lucem.de/index.php?id=156&L=1
[8]. http://www.litracon.hu/.

Abstract: Clean source of energy is playing very vital role in today's eco-friendly environment. Potential energy available with water can be converted into useful work by maintaining the purpose of clean environment. Hydro-power plant utilises the energy of water and can produce equivalent mechanical output. Hydro-electric power plants are much more reliable and efficient as a renewable and clean source than the fossil fuel power plants. The rivers in Western Maharashtra region flows from Sahyadri mountain towards Deccan platue with steady gradient. In recent years, the environmental impacts are becoming difficult for developers to build new dams because of opposition from environmentalists and people living on the land to be flooded. Therefore the need has arisen to go for the small scale hydro power plants in the range of mini (few MW) and micro hydro (kW) power plants.

[1] "State Hydel Policy For Development Of Small Hydro Power Projects through Private Sector Participation", Government of Maharashtra Water Resources Department, 2003 Proceedings

Papers:

[2] Mohibullah, Mohd. AmranMohd. Radzi and Mohd Iqbal Abdul Hakim, "Basic Design Aspects of Micro Hydro Power Plant and Its Potential Development in Malaysia", National Power & Energy Conference (PECon) 2004 Proceedings, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 220-223, 2004.

Books:

[3] "Guide on How to Develop a Small Hydropower Plant", European Small Hydropower Association (ESHA), 2004.

Abstract: The cost of water distribution system includes cost of pipes, pumping system, civil works and pumping energy. Out of these, cost of civil works and pumping system are nearly fixed for any specific water supply project. The cost of pipes and pumping energy are variable and can be minimized by suitable selection of pipe size, material of pipes and staging of elevated service reservoir. In the present work, the cost of pipes and energy have been optimized using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method for a water supply system having large pipe network. In addition to this, the effect of swarm size and different inertia weights of PSO is
also studied on the optimized cost of the system.
Key words: Water supply system, Particle swarm optimization, Inertia weight function

[1]. Yunus A. Cengel. And John M. Cimbala, Fluid mechanics, fundamental and applications, Mc Graw hill publications, New Delhi.2014.
[2]. Jinesh K. S. Babu and D.P .Vijayalakshmi , Self adaptive PSO-GA hybrid model for combinatorial water distribution network design, Journal of pipeline systems engineering and practice,volume-4(1),2013, 57-67.
[3]. M.H. Afasher and M.A.Marino, A convergent genetic algorithm for pipe network optimization, Scientia Iranica, volume 12(4), 2005, 392-401.
[4]. Z.Y. WU and A.R. Simpson, competent genetic evolutionary optimization of water distribution system, Journal of computing in civil engineering, volume 15(2), 2001, 89-101.
[5]. Edward Keedwell and Khu Soon Thiam, A hybrid genetic algorithm for the design of water distribution networks, Engineering applications of artificial intelligence, volume 18, 2004, 461-472.