CON4000 Widener University XYZ Construction Management Plan Project

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1) Background: You have just started working for XYZ General Contractors. XYZ has recently been
awarded the Lake Washington Surface Water Treatment Plant Office Staff/Shop Building project by
the City of Melbourne, FL. As the project manager you have three major tasks. Each task is explained
in detail in paragraphs 2 through 5.
a) Task I – develop your schedule to deliver the term project (submit as HW 8).
b) Task II – develop the term project deliverables.
c)
Task III – prepare a 5 minute briefing for the XYZ owners and/or building owner (City of
Melbourne). You will have different briefing topics. Make sure that you use the correct topic
(Paragraph 4.e. below).
2) Task I – develop your schedule to deliver the Term Project (HW 8)
a) Check out for special topics assigned to you (Paragraph 4.e below).
b) Develop a schedule for delivering the term project including:
i)
CPM Network showing activities and logic
ii) Resource assignments (you)
iii) Milestones
c)
See HW 08 for details.
3) Task II – develop your schedule for the Lake Washington Project
a) Contract award date: September 2, 2019, total contract amount $479,000.
b) NTP date: September 30, 2019
c)
Contract completion date: April 7, 2020
d) Create activity list
i)
During the time between the contract award date and the Notice to Proceed date you have
provided bonding, financial data, safety plans, etc. to the City for approval. You also started
the permitting process. You do not have to include time for permitting etc. in your schedule.
Your schedule start date is the NTP date. The explanations here are given to you just to give
you an idea what must be done between contract award and actual start date.
ii) Inspections must be included in your schedule
(1) Fire sprinkler system
(2) Electrical and plumbing before drywall
(3) Electrical, plumbing, mechanical above ceiling before installing ceiling tiles
e) Estimate durations
i)
Submit an estimating sheet showing duration calculations for tasks designated on the draft
task list as “estimate required.”
ii) You have the total cost of the contract based on your winning bid. You must distribute the
total cost among activities in a reasonable way but you do not have to do any detailed cost
estimates.
f)
Create an MS Project schedule
i)
Project start date: NTP date
ii) Construction start date: NTP date
iii) Include milestones for:
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(1) Contract award
(2) NTP
(3) Demolition complete
(4) Foundation and underground utilities complete
(5) Building closed in (exterior complete)
(6) Building interior complete
iv) Include summary tasks for:
(1) Entire project
(2) Site work
(3) Demolition
(4) Shop
(5) Maintenance Office
v) Create an early start cost S-curve for the project similar to Fig 15.7. Label the x-axis of the S-
Curve in months (not quarters or weeks) so that it will match monthly pay requests.
g) Prepare selected reports before any work is done that you will use to manage the project.
i)
Network Diagram
(1) Format nodes like this:
(2) Make the network legible
ii) Bar Charts
(1) PM’s Bar Chart
(2) Owner’s bar chart
(3) Subcontractor bar charts (Demolition and Plumbing)
(4) Superintendent’s 3 week look-ahead for the start of week 2.
4) Task III -Presentation: Prepare a 5-minute PowerPoint presentation that included items a through d
below, and your assigned topics in item 4e below.
a) Introduction
b) Explanation of the purpose of the presentation
c)
A project schedule in bar chart format
d) An S Curve for project cost vs. time
e) Information required by the special topic below:
i)
Topic 1: Initial schedule submission meeting. You are meeting with the Owner’s
Representative from the City Engineer’s Office to go over your project schedule. Your
project progress payments will be made based on the approved schedule. Your objective is
to show a well thought-out schedule in both bar chart and tabular format. Since the
audience for this presentation is the building owners, use LS/LF dates. Also show the
payment S Curve for the project.
ii) Topic 2: Your schedule was approved. The contract allows you to receive monthly progress
payments by calendar month. It is the end of the first month of the project. Prepare the first
payment request. All project activities are on schedule (ES/EF). The contract specifies that
ES
LS
Dur
Float
Name
EF
LF
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payment requests include a bar chart schedule showing progress updates and a tabular
section with the following information for all schedule activities:
Activity
#
Name
Activity
Value $
Plan
Start
Plan
Finish
Actual
Start
Actual
Finish
%
Compl
Prev
Pay
Pay
Req
iii) Topic 3: Progress presentation week 8 (Nov 26th). You were on schedule through the end of