Assefa, Abraham (PhD)Oumer, Hassina2018-07-032023-11-112018-07-032023-11-112016-11http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/5719One of the major challenges of Addis Ababa city is lack of shelter and unemployment as identified by city administration of Addis Ababa, which needs an urgent remedy. In order to solve these challenges, the city administration has established an integrated housing development program which has to be planned to change the image of the city, to modernize the life style of the society, and to promote the construction industry. In Addis Ababa slum upgrading, public-private partnership for housing production, and direct government low-cost housing are undertaken with varying degrees of success. However, the vast majority are uncoordinated, small in scale compared with demand, and often do not reach the target low income beneficiaries. There is a critical problem in the construction of these saving houses in Addis Ababa that had limited the timely delivery of the houses. The objective of this research was to investigate the planning and scheduling phases of saving houses development enterprise construction projects by identifying the project planning elements and the project resource requirements by to comparing and contrasting the resource constrained and unconstrained schedules. To identify the resource availability the scheduling is done by as resource constrained schedule. This exploratory study applied an inductive approach with the use of both qualitative and quantitative case studies, by collecting and analysing textual data through document analysis, interviews, observations and resource determination using MS Project. To effectively evaluate a project planning and scheduling the schedules submitted by the contractors were collected and evaluated. The best contractor schedules were identified using a schedule goodness index. A resource driven schedule was also proposed and developed, and was compared with contractor’s submitted schedule to identify the resource gaps. The research results showed that the lacks of planning in saving houses development enterprise are due to: lack of technical knowhow, poor institutional arrangements, and weak legal frameworks. The gaps are identified and recommendations are forwarded for both the client and contractors. Key words: Project management, Housing, Planning, SchedulingenProject ManagementHousingPlanningSchedulingThesis