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16-Civ-B8 Management of Construction: Undated paper

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  1. Question 1 Scheduling — cheapest-option plan, and the fastest plan under a labour cap
  2. Question 2 Litigation — delay claims, their prevention and their forensic analysis
  3. Question 3 Contract Administration — delivery systems, unbalanced bids and bidder responsibility
  4. Question 4 Engineering Economics — present-value comparison of two projects of unequal life
  5. Question 5 Project Control — earned value and the cost performance index under the 20/80 rule
  6. Question 6 Safety Practices and Regulations — demolition with hazardous-material removal

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Paper format. National Exams, May 2019 — 16-Civ-B8, Management of Construction. Closed book; one of the two approved calculators (Casio or Sharp); candidates are urged to submit a statement of any assumptions made. Six questions of equal value (20 marks each); 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. its own page headers read “16-Civ-B8, May 2019”.

Reference texts. Hendrickson, Project Management for Construction, 2nd ed. (precedence networks, resource levelling, project control and earned value); Halpin & Senior, Construction Management, 4th ed. (activity networks, time–cost trade-off, bonding, delivery systems); A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), 6th ed. (earned-value management, CPI and SPI); Fraser et al., Global Engineering Economics: Financial Decision Making for Engineers, 5th Canadian ed. (present worth, annual worth, comparison of alternatives with unequal lives); CCDC 2 (2020) Stipulated Price Contract and CCDC 23 A Guide to Calling Bids and Awarding Contracts; the Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol, 2nd ed., with AACE International RP 29R-03 (forensic schedule analysis); Hinze, Construction Safety, 2nd ed., with the WorkSafeBC Occupational Health and Safety Regulation Parts 6 and 20 and Ontario O. Reg. 213/91.