Construction Management & scheduling FINAL PROJECT
Final Project

Total points: 300

Purpose and Scope:

You have been asked to create a comprehensive schedule report to present to the UT System for

an Office Building to be built on a university campus in Austin, Texas. The schedule will be

used in the presentation for a negotiated CM AT RISK contract. The following is the scope of

work as described by the owners.

The office building is to be built in an area that is pretty crowded on the campus along the MLK

Jr. Blvd. The project will start on October 15th, 2021, and finish on December 20th, 2024. It will

be a 4-Story building with Glass and Metal Curtain Wall / R/Conc. Frame. Further structural and

finishing details are provided in the attached cost estimate.

Figure 1. Selected spot for the building

Scheduling details according to the UT system’s standard CM-at-risk contract:

1) Construction Manager shall cooperate with the Project Architect and endeavor to further the

interests of the Owner and the Project. Construction Manager shall furnish Pre-Construction

Phase Services and Construction Phase Services and complete the Project in an expeditious

and economical manner consistent with the interests of the Owner and in accordance with the

Project Schedule.

2) Proposal and all supporting documents shall identify and describe all items, assumptions,

costs, contingencies, schedules, and other matters necessary and relevant for proper

execution and completion of the Work.

3) The Construction Manager’s Pre-construction Phase Services team shall attend Project Team

meetings with the Owner, the Owner’s representatives, and the Project Architect at regularly

scheduled intervals throughout the Pre-Construction Phase.

4) Develop a critical path method schedule (“CPM Schedule”) for Project Team review and the

Owner’s approval, that coordinates and integrates activities on the Project, including the

Construction Manager’s services, the Project Architect’s design services, the work of other

consultants and suppliers, and the Owner’s activities with the anticipated construction

schedules for other contractors. The CPM Schedule must identify all major milestones

through Project Final Completion. The CPM Schedule shall be created and maintained

following the Owner’s Specifications using the Owner specified format and software.

5) The Construction Manager shall update the CPM Schedule throughout the Pre-Construction

and Construction Phases as described in the Owner’s Specifications. 6) At the Owner’s request, attend public meetings and hearings concerning the development and

schedule of the Project.

Deliverables:

A detailed estimate for the project has been provided to you. You can use the given estimate

activities in your schedule and SHOULD ADD activities for General Conditions,

Mobilization, and final clean up/occupancy. As the project manager, you need to schedule the

project in a way that will provide for the highest quality and in the shortest amount of time with a

safe work environment. Use MS Project to prepare the schedule. Plan for a 5-day work week

with normal holidays off. Think out the activities and relationships carefully and make this the

best-planned schedule you can for this project. Please consider the scheduling related details

mentioned above for a comprehensive schedule document.

There are two parts of the final project:

A. Project reports

1. It is company policy to have a complete as-planned schedule of the project shown in both

an organized, highly communicative bar chart and a pure logic diagram. The bar chart

will be used in a presentation with the owner and so it needs to be impressive and must

show the project by wings and by floor levels. The owner is very familiar with CPM and

has required the bar chart to show the activities in their early position and to show float.

2. A bar chart for the typical owner of milestone activities only. Milestone activities, in this

case, are construction activities the owner can be particularly interested in, probably some

of which are critical and some not critical.

3. A Network Logic Diagram of the total project. View the report and then add some

symbols or a logo to the footing of the report.

4. Your boss also wants to see the weekly cash flow requirements on the project as a

histogram and an early start “S-Curve” showing total cumulative costs.

B. Project Analysis

After completing the project reports, please answer the following questions:

• What specific suggestions you can make in order to complete the project on the originally

scheduled completion date?

• Please mention the months when you need the most credit in your hands and why it is so.

This is necessary to plan for having a sufficient amount of money available in those

months.

CE 5387: TERM PROJECT Fall 2020

Team Number:

Team Members:

Grading Criteria:

MAX PTS Comments

1 Submitted on Time (Due date: Friday, October 9, 2020 midnight)

N/A

2 Report looks professional- title page, table of contents, overall organization. 15

3 Project description and assumptions are included 20

4 Project reports (4 in total as described in the project report statement)

120

5 Project analysis questions 30

6 Conclusions(State the company’s commitment to strong baseline schedule and project completion)

10

7 Appendixes: Meeting Minutes, RFI’s, etc. 5

8 Peer Evaluations 100

TOTAL 300

Final Comments: