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CEQS3230 Construction Management Assignment - Higher College of Technology, Oman

PART 1 -

Q1. Explain the importance of the following for construction projects:

a) Stakeholders.

b) Mobilization.

c) Machinery.

Q2. Describe one (1) example of the most suitable situations where each of the terms mentioned in Q1 can be used in projects (real or imaginary).

Q3. An old building has been purchased for conversion into a historical restaurant. The local the local historical committee is a major stakeholder as they are showing interest and have become involved. A schedule contingency reserve has been suggested. Describe how you would manage this risk using each of the strategies below:

a. Sharing

b. Mitigation

c. Avoidance

d. Acceptance

Q4. For the project mentioned above, explain one (1) benefit of each of the risk response types.

Q5. The consultant has carried out the quality control inspection for the first course of a block-work wall in a construction project. He found that the wall of 6 meters height is inclined inwards by 10 mm. Explain the procedure of the cybernetic process to be used if the accepted verticality variation for the block wall is 1 mm/m.

Q6. We do not want to carry out gold-plating for the clients in our projects. We need to define exactly what will we do and then follow up to ensure nothing more and nothing less is being performed. Describe what these processes are called and explain them briefly.

Q7. As a project planner you have an activity that might take the following durations in days: (13 - 16 - 20). According to the management, the probability to complete the project with a duration of 13 days or 20 days is tremendously low. Use the most appropriate formula to estimate the duration of this activity and provide a description of the reason behind your choice of formula.

Part 2 -

Q8. A Cost Plus Incentive Fee contract has the following parameters, calculate the final price if the project was completed for an actual cost of OMR 400,000.

Q9. Referring to Figure 2, describe the following:

a) The type of network diagram used.

b) Project planned duration.

c) All total floats.

d) All free floats

Q10. The construction of a shopping mall involves a subcontractor for the shaded parking area. The consultancy office is also working on various design changes requested by the client. Answer the questions below considering the information provided:

a) Describe the communication management processes required.

b) Explain the importance of communication management in this case (300 words).

Q11. Refer to Table 1 and carry out the following tasks:

a) Draw the network diagram for these activities.

b) Carry out the forward and backward passes, indicating all critical paths.

c) Crash the project by making the D & F crashed durations 2 & 1 respectively.

d) Explain what happens to the project cost and the duration due to crashing process.

PART 3 -

Q12. Four Squares Construction Company is working on five (5) multistory building towers in Al Hail city as Phase 1 of a commercial district consisting of five (5) phases. Create a risk register for this project including the risk matrix and the risk response type for each of the risks mentioned below. Explanation must be provided for each choice made.

a) Lease cancellation (by tenants) due to economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

b) Shipment delays due to extra rules and regulations for foreign subcontractors.

c) Salary payment issues due to government guidelines forcing site manpower to be reduced to 50%. The company cannot pay all the employees while only 50% are working on the site.

d) Sponsor may hold the project until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

e) Ambiguity around the situation in Italy which supplies marble to be used in the project.

Q13. There are four (4) items which can be used in each of the following situations. The items are mentioned below the situation. Describe the effects on the projects of using each of the four (4) items and mention the most suitable one.

Q13.a. Situation: You are filling the risk response section of the risk register.

Document:

i. Baseline cost.

ii. Procurement management plan.

iii. Baseline schedule.

iv. Outcomes of risk assessment, risk audits and periodic risk reviews.

Q13.b. Situation: You have taken over the role of project manager on the "Green Architecture" project. Your team members are complaining that they can never complete their regular work because project stakeholders keep interrupting them asking for project information.

Response:

i. Identifying stakeholders.

ii. developing risk responses.

iii. Conducting communication requirements analysis.

iv. providing training and team building.

Q14. As a planning engineer you were too busy to visit the construction site of a multi-story residential-commercial building, so you asked the site foreman about site progress through a phone call. You made the notes provided in Table 3 during that call. Referring to the extracts from the BOQ (Table 4), determine how much the construction of superstructure columns is complete using the most appropriate method. Historical data is provided in Table 5.

Note - Need to solve part 3 only and all required table and figures are in attached file.

Attachment:- Construction Management Assignment File.rar