Paper format. National Exams, May 2015 — 98-Civ-B8 Management of Construction (the paper now catalogued as 16-Civ-B8). Three hours, closed book; one of two approved calculator models permitted. Six questions of equal value (20 marks each); the rubric states that any five constitute a complete paper and that only the first five presented in the answer book will be marked. All six are worked here, because this set is a study resource rather than an exam script. The paper is three calculation questions (1, 3, 4) and three discussion questions (2, 5, 6).
Source note. The two side tables on page 2 — the activity/duration/predecessor list in Question 1 and the trenching-machine production table in Question 3 — are given in full in the Given blocks below. The final activity in the Question 1 table is printed as a two-character label that reads QI; it is a closing activity of one day's duration following V and S, and the answer does not depend on how the label is read.
Reference texts.
- Halpin, D. W. and Senior, B. A., Construction Management, 4th ed., Wiley — Ch. 9–11 (network scheduling, activity-on-arrow networks, float), Ch. 4 (project delivery methods), Ch. 13–14 (equipment production and cost estimating).
- Hendrickson, C. and Au, T., Project Management for Construction, 2nd ed. — Ch. 8 (construction contracts and risk allocation), Ch. 10 (fundamental scheduling procedures, critical path and float), Ch. 5 (cost estimation, productivity).
- Peurifoy, R. L., Schexnayder, C. J., Shapira, A. and Schmitt, R., Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods, 9th ed., McGraw-Hill — Ch. on trenching and excavating machinery (ladder- and wheel-type trenchers, production tables, operating-efficiency factors).
- Fraser, N. M., Jewkes, E. M. et al., Global Engineering Economics: Financial Decision Making for Engineers, Canadian ed., Pearson — Ch. 3 (compound-interest factors), Ch. 4 (present worth), Ch. 5 (comparison of alternatives).
- Canadian Construction Documents Committee, CCDC 2 — Stipulated Price Contract, CCDC 14 — Design-Build Stipulated Price Contract; and the Canadian Construction Association Guide to Calling Bids and Awarding Contracts.
- Hinze, J. W., Construction Safety, 2nd ed.; WorkSafeBC, Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (Parts 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20) and the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) fact sheets.
- Construction Industry Institute and the U.S. Business Roundtable productivity studies, as summarised in Halpin & Senior Ch. 15 (labour productivity, work sampling, the five-minute rating).
