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  1. Question 1 Scheduling — least-cost plan, and accelerating to eight days inside a four-worker limit
  2. Question 2 Litigation — delay claims, their contractual prevention, and the delay taxonomy
  3. Question 3 Contract Administration — Design-Bid-Build versus CM at Risk, and screening unbalanced bids
  4. Question 4 Engineering Economics — present-worth comparison of two projects with unequal lives
  5. Question 5 Project Control — earned value and the Cost Performance Index under the 20/80 rule
  6. Question 6 Safety Practices and Regulations — a multi-activity site with demolition and hazardous-material removal

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Paper format: National Exams, May 2019 — 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 that appear in the answer book are marked. All six are worked below so the paper serves as a complete revision set whichever five a candidate elects.

Reference texts: Hegazy, T., Computer-Based Construction Project Management (Prentice Hall) — activity-on-node networks, the forward and backward passes, total and free float, resource profiles and levelling, the time–cost trade-off, and the earned-value formulation with the 20/80 progress convention; these chapters carry Questions 1 and 5. Hendrickson, C. & Au, T., Project Management for Construction (2nd ed., Carnegie Mellon) — Chapter 8 (construction contracts, delivery systems and the allocation of risk), Chapter 10 (fundamental scheduling procedures) and Chapter 12 (cost control, monitoring and accounting), behind Questions 1, 3 and 5. Halpin, D.W. & Senior, B.A., Construction Management (4th ed., Wiley) — delivery-system comparison, bid evaluation and responsibility determination, and construction safety management, behind Questions 3 and 6. Sullivan, W.G., Wicks, E.M. & Koelling, C.P., Engineering Economy (17th ed., Pearson) — Chapters 4, 5 and 6: the uniform-series present-worth factor, single-payment factors, and the comparison of alternatives with unequal lives by repeated study period or by annual worth; this is Question 4. AACE International, Recommended Practice 29R-03, Forensic Schedule Analysis, together with the Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol (2nd ed., 2017) — the delay-analysis methods and the excusable / compensable / concurrent taxonomy in Question 2. Canadian Construction Documents Committee, CCDC 2 Stipulated Price Contract (2020), CCDC 5B Construction Management Contract — for Services and Construction, and CCDC 23 A Guide to Calling Bids and Awarding Contracts — the Canadian contract and tendering machinery behind Questions 2 and 3. WorkSafeBC Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (B.C. Reg. 296/97), especially Part 20 (Construction, Excavation and Demolition) and Part 6 (Substance Specific Requirements — asbestos and lead), with the federal Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations — the Canadian regulatory frame for Question 6.