Make assumption of the role:
I am a consultant project manager appointed by the City Lancashire college to manage the design and construction of the new teaching blocks, offices, and related school facilities in the new campus.
As the project manager of this project, I will be working with different project team members including and internal project team comprising members from the collage.
To identify and discuss various types of contract that are likely to be in place for procurement of the design and construction activities.
Procurement systems can be classified as:
• traditional (separated);
• design and construct (integrated);
• management (packaged);
• collaborative (relational)
For this project, design and construction contract is in place for procurement activities.
A number of variations of
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The contractor’s awareness of current market conditions and delivery times can ensure that a contract runs smoothly, economically and expeditiously.
Advantages and disadvantages of design and construct procurement
The main advantages of using a design and construct approach to procurement are: • client has to deal with one firm and reduces the need to commit resources and time to contracting designers and contractors separately;
• price certainty is obtained before construction commences as client’s requirements are specified and changes are not introduced;
• use of a guaranteed maximum price with a savings option split can stimulate innovation and reduce time and cost; • overlap of design and construction activities can reduce project time; and
• improved constructability due to contractor’s input into the design. The main disadvantages of using a design and construct approach to procurement are: • difficulties can be experienced by clients in preparing an adequate and sufficiently comprehensive brief;
• client changes to project scope can be
We want to save our clients time, reduce risk of costly mistakes and save money! This is why we focus on these target areas for a problem-free construction project. We want them to focus on their expertise and. Seer Construction Consulting consults with business owners, contractors and individual home owners on new and existing projects to ensure that everything is according to client specifications, with full consideration of project timeline, budget, possible causes of delays, and set up contingency plans.
2. Estimating and budgeting is made easier. Before you start drawing a plan you are required to input types of materials you will be using, types of nails, and County Building Codes. This allows Chief Architect to track how much material is needed, what type of material, how many nails, how much drywall, insulation, and much more. This feature alone will have our company thousands of dollars.
Part 2 - Resource Management Resource Assignments Our resource assignments are achieved by the collaborative efforts of teamwork. We assigned 50 people to the project which is more than enough to help achieve our intended goals and the start and finish times of our scheduled project activities. The team avoided resource overload by setting up a project schedule that was realistic as part of effective project plan. Each team member was held accountable for tasks appropriately assigned; checking in to assure there were opportunities to share progress or ideas with the team.
NEGLIGENCE, CASES,SOLUTION CASE STUDY Brickhill v Cooke [1984] 3 NSWLR 396 Facts • The prospective purchasers of a property engaged an engineer to inspect the property and prepare a written report. • The engineer concluded that the property was structurally sound.
Also, the Mr. Justice Estey stated that the principal term of Contract A is the irrevocability of the bid. This is benefit of the contract A/B. In the other word, this procedure protects the both parties. Therefore, the Ron engineering likes a milestone for the law of bidding and tendering. People have constantly made the system
Jamba Juice was the vision of Kirk Perron who was into living a healthy lifestyle, in 1990 after his workout while enjoying his smoothie he came up with the idea to start this business venture. Next, he went to the bank in hopes of getting the needed funds for his startup venture. However, the banks refused to loan him the funds to start his venture. Then Kirk Perron decided to ask his mother for a loan to get him started she agreed.
Hi Stef, I definitely have capacity and passion to solve Genworth’s growing Identity and Access Management needs. I totally understand you and Bryan has the same passion. I am working with various vendors/service providers and involving various stakeholders when information is available. We will lose our negotiation leverage if we open multiple communication channels with vendors. Now we started reviewing vendor’s capabilities, I would like to review IMS and validate our assumptions.
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For the past five years, Barton has worked at Linus Construction with architects, engineers, owners, buyout projects, and superintendents to understand the scope of work. He defined a “project manager” as one who puts the package together, and defines the scope of work for subcontractors. A “job superintendent” is at the project watching the day to day construction. For Gorman ISD, he was more like a job superintendent but only had the power to observe, not to stop the work.
Professional Services Agreement Exhibit A Monthly Project Report Content (if applicable to Services) Include: Project Name, Project Manager, Reporting Period and Date Completed. Section 1 – General Information Project Status (% complete for each phase) – Pre-Planning and Programming, Design, Construction, and Close-Out. Indicate (1) design firm, (2) contractor/builder and (3) other key consultants. Section 2 – Milestone Schedule Attach a milestone schedule for the full project. Include at a minimum the following: (1) Phases of the project – pre-planning and programming, design phase(s), agency approvals, bidding, builder selection, construction phase and close-out.
This type of contract is preferred when there is uncertainty in the scope of work, or when the types of the materials, labor, and equipments are being similarly uncertain in nature. 4- Incentive contracts Incentive contracts feature compensation which depends on the contracting/engineering performance in accord with an agreed target, schedule, quality, and/or budget. 5- Percentage of construction contract
INTRODUCTION The application of information, expertise, tools, and procedures to project activities to meet the project requirements is known as project management (PMBOK 2008). Alternatively, project management is the process in which projects are well-defined, planned, supervised, organized and conveyed such that the agreed features and requirements are fulfilled (APM BOK 2006). Success of IT projects is very much dependent on providing the anticipated product at the projected time, within budget, its desired performance levels, acknowledged by the client, offering at least the minimum agreed functionality i.e. meeting customer satisfaction, and delivering the promised benefits (Dalcher and Brodie, 2007).
To organise for project management requires an understanding of the organisation’s architecture which includes the organisational hierarchy - the grouping of internal business units, the authority lines and interaction with one another. Each of these aspects should be designed to support project management within the organisation. Structure should follow strategy or else it may impede communication, coordination and decision making which are all key to success (Brevis, 2014, p. 224). Hence, an important function of upper management is to support project teams by either redesigning the organisation to emphasize projects or integrating projects into the current organisation (Graham & Englund, 2004).
TASK IV: PARTNERSHIP IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT Partnering is a project approach designed to allow the construction process to be performed within an atmosphere of mutual trust, commitment to shared goals, and open communication among the partnering members while working in harmony toward mutual goals in order to avoid claims and litigation and establish a win/win management approach. For the complex and large-scale Atlantis project, the contractually associated construction partnering between Laing O’Rourke and NORR along with various other members like Rockwell Group, WATG, EDSA, helped to create working relationship among all of the team members based on mutually agreeable plan of cooperation and teamwork to improve productivity. The main objectives of Atlantis project partnership included reducing project costs and schedules, eliminating change orders and claims, improving communication by developing
The Architect working on a project is not only responsible for the design but is also expected to work as a link between different parties in involved in the process, most importantly the client and others for successful outcomes and to achieve client’s satisfaction in a project. With so many factors affecting the process, Architects find it difficult to explain the nature of their professional activities and their deliverables for successful project (Bali, 2009). Also, success can be viewed in different ways whereby what one perceives as a successful project outcome may be viewed quite differently by the next. A client’s judgement of a success may often be different to the architect.