07-Str-B2: December 2017

Paper format: National Exams, December 2017 — 07-Str-B2 Management of Construction. Three hours, closed book, one approved Casio or Sharp calculator permitted. Six questions of equal value (20 marks each); any five constitute a complete paper and only the first five answered in the answer book are marked. All six are worked below so that the paper can be used for revision whichever five a candidate chooses.

Reference texts: Hegazy, T., Computer-Based Construction Project Management (Prentice Hall) — precedence (activity-on-node) networks with lags, forward and backward passes, total and free float, earned-value progress measurement and the time–cost trade-off curve; these chapters carry Questions 1 and 3. Hendrickson, C. & Au, T., Project Management for Construction (2nd ed., Carnegie Mellon) — Chapter 5 (cost estimation and unit-cost data), Chapter 10 (fundamental scheduling procedures), Chapter 11 (advanced scheduling with lags) and Chapter 12 (cost control, monitoring and accounting), including percent-complete and earned-value reporting. Halpin, D.W. & Senior, B.A., Construction Management (4th ed., Wiley) — labour productivity, crew balance, construction contracts and bonding, and construction safety management. Peurifoy, R.L. & Schexnayder, C.J., Construction Planning, Equipment and Methods (9th ed., McGraw-Hill) — crew productivity and the physical determinants of daily output, behind Question 3. R.S. Means, Building Construction Cost Data (annual) — the structure of a unit-price line: crew, daily output, labour-hours per unit, bare material / labour / equipment, and total including overhead and profit. Sullivan, W.G., Wicks, E.M. & Koelling, C.P., Engineering Economy (17th ed., Pearson) — Chapters 5 and 6, present-worth analysis and the repeatability (common multiple of lives) assumption for alternatives with unequal lives, used in Question 4. AACE International, Recommended Practice 29R-03, Forensic Schedule Analysis, and the Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol (2nd ed., 2017) — the delay-analysis taxonomy required by Question 2. Canadian Construction Documents Committee, CCDC 2 — Stipulated Price Contract (2020), CCDC 220 Bid Bond, CCDC 221 Performance Bond, CCDC 222 Labour and Material Payment Bond and CCDC 40 — Rules for Mediation and Arbitration, together with the BC Builders Lien Act holdback provisions — the Canadian contractual machinery behind Questions 2 and 5. Transportation Association of Canada, Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada (MUTCDC) and the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Traffic Management Manual for Work on Roadways, with WorkSafeBC's Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (Part 18 Traffic Control, Part 4 lighting and workplace conditions, Part 8 personal protective clothing) — the Canadian rule set behind Question 6.