as a construction manager overseeing a small commercial construction project. You are in the process of planning and developing your pre-construction schedule and you are collecting activity durations from the subcontractors responsible for several components of the project. Based on your history with these types of projects, you believe that some of the activity durations provided are unrealistic. Some subcontractors seem to have inflated their estimates, while others have provided shorter-than-normal durations. From your experience, you recognize that these unrealistic activity durations have the potential to affect the schedule, and the project, negatively.

How would you resolve this issue? How could these unrealistic durations negatively affect your schedule? In your response, focus on at least two ways that your schedule could be negatively affected. Provide rationale for your assertions.