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Project Management In The Construction Industry From Concept To Completion 1st Edition Saleh A. Mubarak - Solutions
Will you change your likely option in Exercise No. 22, if the contract stipulates heavy liquidated damages for delay? Discuss the impact of the importance of finishing on schedule on your decision.
You are the project manager of a hotel project that is planned to be completed by the end of October 2025. On November 29, 2024, 3 months after starting the project, you received the project control report, which has good news (the project is slightly under budget) and bad news (the project is 5
Is it a good idea to compare the current schedule to both the baseline and last update? Why?
You have a schedule on Oracle Primavera P6 that is neither cost‐ nor resource‐loaded. The program can still give you the percent complete for activities and the project. What method do you think it uses?
Is it possible to see different percent complete estimates for the same activity at the same time in different reports? Explain your answer.
What is the most important thing about percent complete when reporting on project progress?
Compare between percent complete for an activity and percent complete for a project. Which one is more important for project control?
Define percent complete for an activity.
What are the four components of project control?
You are the project control manager of a major construction company that has many projects going on, led by project managers with varying knowledge of scheduling software. The CEO wants each project manager to update their own projects. Do you agree with that decision? Why or why not? Justify your
When the project falls behind, there could be several reasons why this happened. Mention all the possible causes.
After a schedule update, you found out that the critical path has −3 days float. What does this mean? You are supposed to write the update report to the project manager, but you need to find out the situation. In simplified language, mention the steps you take for writing an accurate report.
Schedule updating reports on the progress achieved since the last update, but what happened may and does have an impact on what will happen. Explain this statement, with a focus on reexamining remaining durations and re‐calculating future dates.
What is the data date? Why is the name “current date” not suitable?
Why is project control needed for construction projects?
Discuss the relationship between project schedule updating and project control.
Define project control and project monitoring. What roles do the contractor and the owner play in these processes?
Define schedule updating. What is an updated schedule?
Define schedule and budget baselines.
What type of projects is best for LSM application?
What is a “recovery schedule”?
In general, what is the effect of accelerating the schedule on the project’s direct, indirect, and total cost?
Do an internet search or meet a project manager and discuss schedule accelerating methods. Pick one method and discuss it in detail.
Explain how accelerating a project schedule works.
A project manager may shorten the duration of a project using several methods. Mention six of these methods and discuss briefly.
An owner decides to build a 10‐story office building that is expected to take 18 months. Later due to budget constraints, the owner decided to scale it down to 8 stories only, with a timeframe of 16 months. Is this reduction in duration considered project acceleration? Explain your answer?
Why would a contractor accelerate a project? Do you think studying the project cost‐time trade‐off is a good idea for the contractor even if the calculated finish date is within the contract limits?
What does the term “accelerating the project” mean?
What is an updated schedule?
Generally, the GC does some of the work by its own forces and subcontracts other work. How can the GC and the subs do resource leveling?
The forward pass does not involve the contract finish date, but the backward pass does. Explain this statement.
We can assign a cost amount (budget) for each activity, like $21,000), but there is a better way.What is it? What are its advantages over the assignment cost directly?
In resource leveling, what resources do we level? Why not all resources?
What are the types of lags? Give examples for each. Which ones can be eliminated by simplification of the activities and logic?
The contractor may keep a number of days as project float (or management float), why? How does this concept work?
A schedule with a calculated finish date of 188 days. When we entered the imposed finish date, negative float appeared with a maximum absolute value of 6 days. What is duration of the project according to the imposed finish date?
What do we mean when we describe an activity as near‐critical? Are there well‐defined criteria for such activities?
If A, B, and C are three activities connected with SS and FF (combination) relationships with 2‐day lag on each relationship. Their durations are 5, 10, and 3, respectively. What is the duration of the project?
If A, B, and C are three activities connected with SS and FF (combination) relationships with no lags. Their durations are 5, 10, and 3, respectively.a. What is the duration of the project?b. Which relationships are critical?
If A, B, and C are three activities connected with FF relationships only with 2‐day lag on each relationship. Their durations are 10, 5, and 3, respectively. What is the duration of the project?
If A, B, and C are three activities connected with FF relationships only with 2‐day lag on each relationship. Their durations are 5, 10, and 3, respectively. What is the duration of the project?
If A, B, and C are three activities connected with FF relationships only with no lags. Their durations are 5, 10, and 3, respectively. What is the duration of the project?
If A, B, and C are three activities connected with SS relationships only with 2‐day lag on each relationship. Their durations are 10, 5, and 3, respectively. What is the duration of the project?
that extends the duration of activity F from 4 to 8 days. Recalculate the finish date and check if this change order has any impact on the critical path and/or the project finish date.
A change order was issued for the work in Example
Repeat Exercise 34 with an imposed finish date of 21 days and then 30 days.
Draw the node network for the following project and perform the CPM calculations:Activity Duration IPA Lag ES EF LS LF TF FF A 4 ——B 9 ——C 6 A —D 4 A ———B 2 E 4 B —F 2 B, C —G 6 D ———E 3 H 3 F, G —
Repeat Exercise 32 with an imposed finish date of 18 days and then 25 days.
Draw the node network for the following project and perform the CPM calculations:Activity Duration IPAES EF LS LF TF FF A 6 —B 2 —C 8 A D 5 A, B E 3 B F 6 D, E G 5 C, D H 2 F, G 7.33
Repeat exercise 30 with an imposed finish date of 24 days.
Draw the node network for the following project and perform the CPM calculations:Activity Duration IPAES EF LS LF TF FF A 7 —B 10 —C 15 A D 8 A, B E 4 C, D 7.31
Which is the longest path: (a) (b) (c) 17 10 m A AG 5 B 86 6 A5 5 AG 04 B 4 3 10 5-workday/week calendar 6-workday/week calendar (d) B 8-829 5 5 5-workday/week calendar 6-workday/week calendar
What qualifications must a scheduler of a building project have? Can the same person be a scheduler for an industrial project? Why or why not?
What is a lag? Compare lags with activities and events.
How do we assign and use work calendars in schedules? Can different activities have different calendars?
What is a constraint? How and why do we use constraints in schedules?
Mention some proper network drawing tips.
Define:a. The critical pathb. Total floatc. Early start dated. Early finish datee. Late start datef. Late finish date g. Free float h. Forward pass i. Backward pass
What is the critical path method? What benefits did it bring to project scheduling?
What does implementing the schedule mean?
What is resource loading and resource leveling?
In assigning logical relationships among activities, the scheduler must pay attention to external relationships. Give some examples.
What are the 4 types of logical relationships in precedence diagrams? Which one is the most used?
How do you assign logical relationships among activities? Do you sometimes have more than one way to show logic?
What are the consequences of lack of accuracy in activities durations?
Why is accuracy important for calculating activities’ durations?
What are the methods used for calculating or estimating the duration of activities?
You are the scheduler of a midsize construction project. You have the responsibility of breaking down the project into activities. The project manager likes to see a small number of activities, which will force you to combine certain activities. You know that such practice will strip the schedule
Discuss the relationship between confidence in activity duration and the work breakdown structure.
What criteria do we use in breaking down the project into activities for creating a schedule?
Briefly describe the steps to create a project schedule.
In a node diagram, what does a node mean, and what does a line (arrow) mean?
What is a logic network diagram? What are the types of networks?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of bar charts?
What is a bar chart? Why was it given the name Gantt charts?
Search online for a new product that improves project scheduling, particularly for the construction industry. It may be a concept, gadget, software, or something else.
Define an activity, an event, and a milestone. Give an example of each.
Define project scheduling, a schedule, and a project scheduler.
What are the “Good Cost Estimator’s” rules?
Some software programs have an option called “repricing estimates.” Briefly describe this option and give an example.
How do you define “Mathematical Intuition”?
Assume that the lumber in Exercise No. 27 is estimated at $1.1 million, and the contractor would like to add a 10% annual escalation allowance (including inflation). How much would the estimate be?
An estimator needs to do an estimate for a project that is planned to start in January 2025 and lasts for 16 months. If (time now) is March 2024 and the database is 3-month-old. How long is the period for estimating the inflation/escalation? If the estimate, before adjusting for inflation,
pay rate). Assume no loss of productivity due to overtime. How many overtime hours need to be rendered? What is the impact on the contractor’s cost?c. If the owner allowed the contractor to finish in 8 days, what will the contractor’s cost be?
In Exercise No. 25, assume that adverse conditions resulted in a reduction of 15% of the production rate.a. What is the impact of this production rate reduction on the cost and duration?b. If the contractor needs to finish the wall on schedule and can have the crew work 10 hours/day (8 hours at
A crew of 5 laborers (3 masons and 2 helpers), must build a wall, 620 LF long and 5 ft high, using 8″ concrete blocks. The crew can do 520 blocks /day. The contract stipulates that the wall must finish in 7 days and pays $8.60/block. The contractor pays the mason $44/hour and the helper$32/hour.
A crew of two laborers can install 300 SF of ceramic tile per day.a. What are the labor hours per SF?b. How many hours does the crew need to finish a 3700 SF floor?c. If productivity goes down by 20%, what are the daily production and the man-hours/SF?d. The productivity can improve by 10% if the
Mention two factors that impact the price of an item but not productivity.
Mention five factors that impact productivity.
Check the right boxes: Bonds No. Statement 1 Required from all bidders 23 4 5 9 7 Required from the lowest qualified bidder only It is refunded at the end of the process It guarantees that if chosen as the lowest qualified bidder, will sign a contract with the owner It assures the owner that the
What discourages a contractor from bidding on too many projects?
What are the major factors that influence the amount (percentage) of contingency a contractor includes in the total cost for a project?
What is the “rule of thumb” that tells you if a cost item is direct or indirect expense?
A general contractor based in New York would like to bid on a project in Arizona. He has never done work before in Arizona. Mention factors that may help him decide to bid or not to bid.
Is it okay to round numbers in cost control? What is the fundamental difference between cost estimating and cost control, regarding rounding numbers?
Define cost control.
In balancing between Just-in-time theory and Inventory buffer, which theory you would lean toward if your project is:a. In the downtown of a major city.b. Away from the city; at least 100 km from the closest city or store.c. In a small town, not far from a major city.Justify your answer in each
In estimating the cost of a future project, which one is more important for the estimator: inflation or escalation? Why? Explain.
You are the CEO of a major construction company. You were told by the accountant that your overhead expenses are too high compared to companies of similar specialty and size. Create a plan to cut these expenses without harming the operations of the company.
What does the term overhead expenses mean and what does it include?
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