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Project Management In The Construction Industry From Concept To Completion 1st Edition Saleh A. Mubarak - Solutions
The owner has authority to make changes to the project, but there are limits. What are these limits?
What is constructive acceleration? Why is it better than halting operations till the dispute is resolved?
What are the unwritten professional obligations of the contractor regarding the site? The answer to this question will help define what conditions qualify as “unforeseen.”
What does the term “unforeseen conditions” mean to a contractor?
Classify claims in terms of the contractor’s demands.
Discuss the relationship between claims and change orders.
Define a change order. What information a change order form must include?
Define a claim, a delay, and a delay claim.
You are the CEO of a construction company with a mission to improve site safety, security, and work efficiency. Write a memo to all your project managers instructing them to make sure their sites are well prepared and maintained, itemizing the issues.
What are the points a site plan must include?
What is the importance of site planning for a general contractor?
Meet an architect and a general contractor, separately, and discuss ways to improve the sustainability of a project each one is involved in.
What are the drawbacks of focusing on recycling as a primary objective for environmental preservation?
Conduct a search on environmental preservation and answer the question: Why it is so important?
Mention the benefits of good safety record on Workers’ Compensation insurance.
Mention the direct and indirect costs of safety violations and accidents.
Mention the benefits of a safety program.
What is the difference between a safety plan and a safety policy?
Discuss how to prepare a Safety Management Plan. Mention the common elements included in the plan.
What does the Hierarchy of Controls mean? Briefly explain.
How can you classify hazards in construction projects?
Safety issues include not just accidents. Explain this point and give examples.
Mention some of the common causes of construction accidents.
Safety is the responsibility of both employees and employers. Explain this statement and give some examples.
An HSE plan is a document that includes what?
Safety management includes proactive and reactive measures. Mention some examples.
What are the key elements of a successful HSE management system?
Do a search to create a timeline for OSHA since it was established and through important and landmark decisions.
What is the main objective of an HSE program for a construction company?
What do the acronyms HSE and HSSE stand for?
We discussed the cost of quality: conformance and nonconformance. Do you believe there is a relationship between quality and time (schedule)? Explain your answer.
How do you respond to the CEO or manager of a construction company who refuses to approve a quality improvement plan because it is “too expensive”?
You are a general manager for a construction company. Your company suffers from the high cost of rework and repair. You are making an improvement plan. Which expenses do you expect to reduce: prevention, appraisal, and/or rework and repair? Explain your answer.
What are the items included in the cost of quality, both conformance and nonconformance.
Talk to a contractor about lack of quality in a construction project and its consequences.Summarize the findings.
Research a case where failure to properly review shop drawings resulted in either an accident, defects, or other negative consequences. (Your case must be different from the one mentioned in the chapter.)
Discuss the importance of reviewing shop drawings, particularly when the matter relates to safety.
What do quality records typically include in a construction project?
What are check sheets? Mention their types.
Briefly describe the inspection plan, both format and content.
What are the six tenets of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI)?
What is the concept of lean production? How do we help make work more efficient with no overloading, uneven loads, or waste?
What is Kaizen? Why do we need continuous improvement?
Who sets quality standards for a construction project? Discuss the roles of the owner, designer, and contractor in this effort.
Meet with a construction project manager. Ask them to tell you about a quality issue they had in this or previous project.a. If that experience was negative, what did the project manager learn from it? If they had the same issue today, what would they do differently?b. If that experience was
Define quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC). Mention the role of both the owner and the contractor in a typical QA/QC program in construction.
What is the quality management plan in construction, and what are its elements?
What is the concept of TQM? How does it work?
What is the “golden triangle,” and how does quality interact with the other components?
Define quality in the general meaning and then specifically in construction projects.
Examining the results of Exercises 14 through 18, draw a conclusion regarding the importance of preparation of cash flow diagrams.
Repeat Exercise 14 if the owner keeps half of the retainage for one full year after the completion of the project.
Repeat Exercise 14 if the monthly interest rate is 1% and owner’s reimbursement payments lag by 2 months.
Repeat Exercise 14 if owner’s reimbursement payments lag by 2 months.
Repeat Exercise 14 if the monthly interest rate is 1%.
A general contractor contracted to build an apartment building. His estimated cost, not including the cost of borrowing money is $3,898,000 and the duration is 12 months. He anticipates his spending to be as shown in the table below.Month Spending 1 $225,000 2 $272,000 3 $371,000 4 $407,000 5
A general contractor contracted to build a house. His/her estimated cost, not including the cost of borrowing money is $843,500 and the duration is 6 months. He/she anticipates his/her spending to be as shown in the table below.Month Spending 1 $85,000 2 $122,000 3 $171,000 4 $255,000 5 $143,000 6
What type of information is needed to prepare a cash flow diagram?
What are some of the usual or possible deductions off progress payments? Which ones will be paid later and when?
What are progress payments? Mention the cycle steps for these payments.
What are the common reasons for cash flow problems with construction companies?
Briefly discuss cash flow management at both the project and corporate levels.
Mismanagement of cash flow has negative consequences. Mention five of them.
Mention five contract terms that may influence the contractor’s cash flow.
What are the two most important benefits of cash flow diagrams for a construction company?
Does the cash flow diagram for the lender differ from the borrower’s diagram? Explain.
Do an internet search for reasons for the failure of construction companies. List the top five reasons.How does management of cash flow rank among them?
What does management of cash flow include?
What is the cash flow for a company in general, and construction company in particular.
A project that has several risks and several construction companies are interested in it. You are a risk expert giving advice to clients. You believe that company A can and should accept this risk while company B must refrain from it. Why? Mention some factors that influenced your decision.
How does the concept of contingency work in risk management? Address both money and time contingency.
In risk management, what does “Expect the Expected” mean?
An investor is thinking about buying an old 10-story building that has been abandoned for many years. Its condition has deteriorated and needs unknown repairs and restoration. His plan is to turn it into a modern office building. You are a general contractor in the same area of this building.The
Your company decided to take on a project to build a research center on an island in the Pacific Ocean. You can travel there by flying to another larger island about 300 miles away, and then take a “taxi flight” on a small aircraft to the destination island. This project can be an opportunity
You are the project manager of a condominium project near the beach in Melbourne, Florida.The building’s concrete skeleton is complete, and you already started the finishes on the lower floors. You are informed that a major hurricane is approaching and will likely hit the area in about 6 days.
What is the duration you assign for the entire cycle in the previous exercise, based on the “worstcase scenario”? Do you believe that such duration is realistic? Why or why not?
From past experience, you believe that the chances for approval of a subcontractor’s shop drawings are:a. 50% from first submissionb. 80% from second submissionc. 100% from third submission If estimated durations for shop drawing activities are: 45 days for first submission, 14 days for first
What would a contractor do for schedule risk planning if he plans to work on a road project in an area during a time known for adverse weather? Make any assumptions as needed.
You are an infrastructure contractor and plan to start a project in the downtown of a major city.You are contemplating the renting of an expensive underground micro-tunneling machine. It will drastically reduce the disturbance to above-the-ground traffic. Now, you are comparing the two options:
Mention five different risks that may have to be considered in a typical:a. Infrastructure construction projects consisting of bridges and/or roadways.b. Mid-rise project.
Talk to a project manager with a local construction project and ask how risk management is handled.If no formal risk management plan is used, discuss how the project is protected against typical project risks. Discuss the benefits of formal risk management.
There is a risk that may affect the cost but has no impact on time. The worst-case scenario is a loss of $100,000. The contractor can buy an insurance policy that protects against losses from this risk.Under what circumstances you would recommend buying this policy?
Compare the cost risk and time risk in any typical construction project, including similarities, differences, means of identifying the risks, and responses to each.
Who should take responsibility for the risk in each of the following scenarios:a. The construction site and operations during the construction process.b. The owner and contractor can accept certain risk, but the contractor can do it at a lower cost.c. This is a project with creative and unusual
Most people, by nature, like to avoid risks by shifting them to others. What is risk shifting? Does it cost anything to shift risk? Discuss in detail.
Discuss risk monitoring and control during the project’s progress. What changes and what remains unchanged?
You managed a project in New York City for a major owner’s corporation. Now, you will be responsible for managing a similar project in Los Angeles, CA. You can use the risk management plan, including the risk register, from the previous project. How would you utilize it for the new project?
Investigate a project risk that you can apply “Avoid, transfer, mitigate, or accept” to it. Briefly discuss how each action is taken.
Briefly explain the qualitative and quantitative risk analysis with a practical example.
An international construction company wants to create a risk register master list that must be used by all projects. How would you approve this list? Keep in mind that risks differ by type of project and region.
What is the risk register? How do we create it? Discuss both preparing a project risk register and the company’s policy regarding this matter.
Define risk management and risk management plan.
Define a project risk. Give an example with both positive and negative potential (opportunities and threats).
ABC Tiles contracted to install ceramic tile in a 4‐floor office building, with a typical floor area of 4250 square feet. The contract stipulates that the work must finish in 34 days at a cost of $5/ft2.A What are the project’s cost and schedule baselines?B Assuming linearity in work, what are
What does the “control level” mean? How would you decide the control level for a schedule with over 2500 activities?
How reliable is the Earned Value method for analyzing cost and time? How can you use it effectively?
A flooring subcontractor is planning to install three types of flooring in an existing building:Type Quantity Unit price Total price Carpet 2600 ft2 $3.45/ft2 $8970 Vinyl tile 1200 ft2 $4.13/ft2 $4956 Ceramic tile 3330 ft2 $5.94/ft2 $19,780 Totals 7130 ft2 $33,706 The subcontractor was given 10
A mason contracted with a general contractor to build an exterior wall out of 8″ CMU. The wall is 164′ long and 8′ high. The mason must finish the wall in 6 days and gets paid $8 per block. At the end of day two, the mason has installed 440 blocks. His actual cost (including his overhead and
The earned value, EV, analysis is about comparing what happened to what should have happened.Explain this statement regarding both budget and schedule.
A roofer is working to cover a 2500 ft2 roof. he/here needs to first install rafters, sheathing, felt, and finally shingles. he/here assumes the previous tasks make up 35%, 20%, 15%, and 30% of the total roofing activity. At a certain point, he/here got the following information on the
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