Designing Dashboard as a Work Progress Monitoring Tool in the Construction Project

Abstract

The aim of this research is to design a dashboard model design that can be used for integrated time and cost performance monitoring of a construction project. The dashboard was designed based on key performance indicators to evaluate the progress of the work used through the Ms. Project program. The dashboard design was based on five main performance indicators, namely: 1) Budget Plan, 2) Description of work schedule, 3) Duration, 4) Dependency relationship, and 5) Resources involved. The resulting dashboard was a decision-making system for management to monitor and evaluate the time and cost performance of a construction project. The research method was an expert survey, documentation, and literature study. An expert survey was conducted to identify the needs of prospective dashboard users, a documentation study was used to collect construction project data, and a literature study was carried out to make the initial design of the model. The designed dashboard consists of: 1) table costs, 2) progress, 3) time to complete the project. The cost table consists of: contract value, actual progress value for the current period ,plan progress value, progress value deviation. The progress  menu consists of: the progress of the previous period, the progress to the current period, the weight of the current period plan and the progress deviation. Furthermore, the project completion time consists of: baseline finish, scheduled finish and Finish Variance. The developed dashboard is useful for making accurate and fast decisions based on data on cost deviation, progress deviation and finish variance when the project is reviewed.