Research on human resource allocation of nuclear EPC general contracting projects

The total cost of project management human resources for large nuclear EPC projects is high. Compared to the manual labor, it's more difficult to evaluate the management staffing level. Based on the construction experience of historical nuclear EPC projects and by applying some allocating methods suitable for EPC contractor, this paper develops the standard allocation baseline of project management human resources including the staffing curve throughout the project life cycle. This baseline has been applied on developing the staffing plans for several large standard nuclear EPC projects. Aiming at applying the standard allocation on non-standard projects, this paper also develops an adaptive adjustment method based on VFT and AHP methodology. By analyzing the difference between the standard project and non-standard ones on project scale and difficulty, the method adjusts the standard allocation to offer reference for the total amount of human resources of non-standard projects accordingly. (author)