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Title: Project Management Challenges & Solutions (IMAGINARY
MOTION PICTURES- S is for Save the Planet: A How to be Green
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Author's Name: Abhiram Sridhara
Professor: Paul G. Ranky
Class: EM 636- Project Management
Date: 21st June, 2015.
E-Learning Pack serial number: EM 636-Summer-2015-34-28
Statement: This work is done by Abhiram Sridhara.
Contents:
1. Introduction and Objectives
2. Methodologies
3. Critical Requirements
4. Project Management Decisions
5. Social Networking
6. Summary
7. Further work needed
8. Grade your own assignment
Introduction and Objectives of the Project:
In a highly advanced world, people have started looking for products
which can meet their requirements and are SUSTAINABLY GREEN. This
is the goal of my company and the reason that we analyze the
requirements of the customers and also keep improving the GREEN
technology of our products.
Customer requirements and feedback are our first priority to adjust our
products and take the required actions for achieving GREEN
SUSTAINABILITY. We need to do the Survey from the customers to know
what kinds of products they desire before we develop them and what
functions should it fulfill. Customer satisfaction is our main agenda. To
There is a need to develop the skill set of the future project manager
and develop a set of methods to ensure the construction industry is
prepared to meet 21st century challenges.
Components to consider include (but are not limited to) collaborative
project management, outsourcing, global teams, offsite management,
centrally located as well as distributed project teams, integrated
information systems, green sustainability issues, energy management
and savings, air quality control, water pollution control, total quality
management and lean six-sigma methods, as well as different
paradigms for prefabrication and automation during the fabrication,
as well as the implementation, test, and maintenance processes.
By analyzing many facilities, buildings, roads, bridges, and others, the
lack of maintenance planning in the construction industry is an
extremely sad fact with lots of evidence all around the world... Yes, the
infrastructure is falling apart everywhere in the world because
the maintenance component wasn't built in the project, or it has been
spent on something else... think of large bridges, or highways, or ...
who is responsible if and when they collapse?
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a new way of approaching the
design and documentation of building projects. It is an important trend
and standard practice in many USA and other construction projects.
Building - not just the typical architectural drawings, but the entire
lifecycle of the building is considered (design/ build/ operations, and
even maintenance)
Information - all information about the building and its lifecycle is
included (...or at least that is the intention...)
Modeling - defining and simulating the building, its delivery, and
operation using integrated tools. (Note, that this has major implications
on building
maintenance too!)
BIM provides several major advantages over CAD (Computer Aided
Design in architectural terms), these being:
BIM Models and manages not just graphics, but also information
information that allows the automatic generation of drawings and
reports, design analysis, schedule simulation, facilities management,
and more ultimately enabling the building team to make betterinformed decisions.
BIM supports a distributed team so that people, tools, and tasks can
effectively share this information throughout the building lifecycle, thus
eliminating
data redundancy, data re-entry, data loss, miscommunication, and
translation errors.As an example, Bentley BIM empowers the
design, construction, and operation of all types of buildings and
facilities around the world, from the conventional to some of the most
inspiring projects of our time.
Building Information Modeling and Generative Design
The challenge is to unite the project lifecycle, bringing together design
and documentation information and workflows for the design,
construction, and operation of all types of buildings and facilities
around the world, from the conventional to the most inspiring projects
of our time.
The solution is a well populated building information modeling (BIM)
system. This is a new way of approaching the design and
documentation of building projects.
BIM empowers the design, construction, and operation of all types of
buildings and facilities around the world, from the conventional to
some of the most inspiring projects of our time.
Integrated Project Delivery
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is an important trend and practice in
construction project management. It leverages early contributions of
knowledge and expertise
through the utilization of new technologies, allowing all team members
to better realize their highest potentials while expanding the value
they provide throughout the project lifecycle.
Planning
Preliminary Engineering
Engineering, Environmental Clearance, Right of Entry
Advertise and Award
Construction
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Planning
First the project is in the planning stage. Studies are conducted
to determine when and if the project should be built, the results
of these studies for several projects are compared to see which
ones should be built first to be most cost-effective.
Bid Preparation
It usually takes a month or two from the time the final design is handed
in until it is ready to be advertised to the bidders. The 'package' that
the bidders are given takes this amount of time to prepare, check for
errors, and have legal and quality counsel also review (there are a lot
of opportunities for lawsuits at this stage so attorneys become involved
to review everything).
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At this stage the project is advertised publicly and the prepared bid
package is made available to those interested in bidding for the
construction work. Questions are asked by the bidders and the
owner(s) provide answers to the public. Everyone must
be able to see all questions and answers or you could be opened up for
lawsuits... (It is better to clarify issues earlier than later...)
Bid Opening
Bids are opened for a few months (2-4) after advertising. For many
companies the winner is the 'lowest responsive, responsible' bidder,
and those terms are heavily defined legally so that they can cut the
ties to someone who may not be qualified. The low bidder wins
automatically if everything checks out, there were no mistakes in their
bid, and they are qualified. If the first bidder gets the boot it goes to
the second, and then the third, etc.
Note, that the civil / construction industry is well known for typically
bidding at a lower than realistic budget and then once they have the
contract awarded they 'realize' that there are additional costs
involved... Of course some of this cost increases can mount to
millions, even billions of dollars! This is an unethical practice by some,
destroying the honest hard working companies...in other industries this
practice is not so typical. Please refer to some of the latest solutions
dealing with Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in the civil and
construction industry.
Award:
The construction contract is awarded to the main contractor. A
construction management consultant is brought on board, and
construction work commences!
(Great moment!)
Construction
The project is finally built! This can last from a few months to several
years! (Note, that some European metro tunnel construction projects
have been often delayed by as much as 5 to 20+ years, or never
(!), due to the fact, that they have found some historic sites and
priceless artifacts. It is quite amazing, that practically anywhere you
dig in Europe you'll find some historical treasure, layer-bylayer, covering thousands of years of history...you can say, that the
metro project is turned into a museum project...)
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After the main construction work is complete the contractor is 'relieved
from work' (legal wording) is paid and congratulated. To relieve means
to ease a burden or take over for someone. An aspirin can relieve a
headache, and a substitute can relieve the teacher who fell asleep on
her desk after lunch.