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Tutorial 6 Civil Engineering Project & Cost Management

This document contains 5 questions related to project scheduling and analysis. Question 1 provides a table of activities, durations, and relationships for constructing a rotating restaurant and tower. It asks to draw a network, calculate activity statistics, and determine project completion probabilities and critical path. Question 2 similarly provides a table of activities for a small construction project. Questions 3-5 each provide tables of activities with optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic durations and ask to calculate project durations and completion probabilities.

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Tutorial 6 Civil Engineering Project & Cost Management

This document contains 5 questions related to project scheduling and analysis. Question 1 provides a table of activities, durations, and relationships for constructing a rotating restaurant and tower. It asks to draw a network, calculate activity statistics, and determine project completion probabilities and critical path. Question 2 similarly provides a table of activities for a small construction project. Questions 3-5 each provide tables of activities with optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic durations and ask to calculate project durations and completion probabilities.

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Tutorial 6 Civil Engineering Project & Cost Management

19th March 2019

Q1). The activities shown are for the construction of a rotating restaurant on a tower. The
project together with their durations (weeks) and their inter-relationships are as shown in the
table below:
Draw a network for the project.
Calculate the expected duration, standard deviation, and variances for each activity
Using the expected durations determine the ES, LS, EF, LF, TF, FF and the critical path and
calculate the probability of finishing the project in 120 weeks.
Determine the project duration that has a 95% probability of completion

Activity Optimistic Most Pessimistic Preceding activities


Duration Likely Duration
Duration
Start 0 0 0
Tower initial design 14 15 17 Start
Rotating restaurant initial 12 15 16 Start
design
Tower design 16 17 20 Tower initial design
Rotating restaurant design
Rotating restaurant design 20 25 30 Rotating restaurant initial design
M&E design 18 20 24 Rotating restaurant initial design
Obtain long lead items 36 40 46 Rotating restaurant design
Construct tower 38 40 45 Tower design
Manufacture rotating 28 30 34 Rotating restaurant design
mechanism
M&E design
Install Restaurant 18 20 22 Obtain long lead items
Manufacture rotating mechanism
Construct tower

Q2). The activities to be used for the contract program for a small project together with their
durations (in days) and their inter-relationships are as shown in the table below.
Draw a network for the project.
Calculate the expected duration, standard deviation, and variances for each activity
Using the expected durations determine the ES, LS, EF, LF, TF, FF and the critical path and
calculate the probability of finishing the project in 300 days.
Determine the project duration that has a 95% probability of completion

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Q3). The following table presents a breakdown of the activities in a construction contract
prepared by the project manager based on the prevailing company resources.
a). Calculate the duration of the project using the optimistic, most likely and pessimistic
activity times.
b). what are the chances that the project will be completed in 35 weeks
c). Determine the project duration that has a 95% probability of completion

Duration in weeks
Activity Predecessor Optimistic Most likely Pessimistic
A 4 5 9
B A 4 8 9
C A 6 7 11
D A 5 9 10
E D 3 4 6
F B,E 2 8 9
G C 5 9 10
H G 3 6 8
K F,H 5 6 9

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Q4). The table gives the activity duration estimates in weeks for a project with nine activities

a). Calculate the duration of the project using the optimistic, most likely and pessimistic
activity times.
b). what are the chances that the project will be completed in 20 weeks
c). Determine the project duration that has a 95% probability of completion

Duration in weeks
Activity Predecessor Optimistic Most Likely Pessimistic
A NONE 1 2 4
B A 5 6 7
C A 2 4 5
D A 1 3 4
E B 4 5 7
F B 3 4 5
G D 1 2 3
H G,C,F 2 3 5
I H,E 2 4 5

Q5). These are two alternative schedules for building six identical houses. In Schedule 1 it
takes 15 weeks to build one house whilst in Schedule 2 it takes 20 weeks to build one house.
Which alternative would result in the quickest project completion time if all activities must be
continuous?

Schedule 1 Schedule 2
Foundations (team A): 3 4
Brickwork (team B): 2 4
Roof construction (team C): 4 4
Internal finishes (team D): 2 4
Services & Connections (team E): 4 4

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