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16-Civ-B8 Management of Construction: December 2019

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  1. Question 1 Scheduling — PERT expected duration, critical path and total floats
  2. Question 2 Litigation — delay taxonomy, claim causes and forensic analysis
  3. Question 3 Contract Administration — demonstrating fairness in competitive tendering
  4. Question 4 Engineering Economics — choosing among three highway improvements
  5. Question 5 Estimating — brickwork quantity take-off and crew duration
  6. Question 6 Safety Practices and Regulations — a multi-lane bridge kept in service during construction

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Paper format. National Exams, December 2019 — 16-Civ-B8, Management of Construction. Three hours, closed book, one of two approved calculators (Casio or Sharp). Six questions of equal value; any five constitute a complete paper and only the first five appearing in the answer book are marked. All six are worked here, because the set is a study resource rather than a sitting.

Reference texts. Hendrickson, Project Management for Construction, 2nd ed. (network scheduling, PERT, project control); Halpin & Senior, Construction Management, 4th ed. (precedence networks with lags, estimating, tendering, safety); RSMeans, Building Construction Cost Data (crew composition, daily output, masonry lines); Fraser et al., Global Engineering Economics, 5th Canadian ed. (present worth, annual worth, benefit–cost analysis of public projects); CCDC 2 (2020) Stipulated Price Contract with the CCDC 220/221 bond forms, and CCDC 23 A Guide to Calling Bids and Awarding Contracts (tendering practice); the Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol, 2nd ed., and AACE International RP 29R-03 (forensic schedule analysis); Hinze, Construction Safety, 2nd ed., with the WorkSafeBC Occupational Health and Safety Regulation Part 20 (Construction) and Ontario O. Reg. 213/91.