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Construction Scheduling for Precast Concrete Warehouse Project

Assignment #3 - Contractor's Schedule Assignment #3 - Contractor's Schedule: Individual Assignment Project Information The planner for your company has left to work for an opposition building company and the management of your company has asked you to prepare a detailed schedule to carry out the works described in Assignment #2 for construction of a precast concrete warehouse and Office for at Lot 15 Bilby St, Campbellfield, Victoria 3061. The project start date is Monday 18th March, 2019 and completion date is Monday 23 September 2019. Time to complete is 27 calendar weeks. The schedule is to be based on the drawings and specifications issued for assignments #1 and #2. You are the new planning engineer for this company and report to the company General Manager Construction. You are required to produce a construction schedule for the proposed project using MS Project 2016 planning software. The company believes it has a good chance of winning the tender but wants to be confident that it can, with reasonable certainty, deliver the project on time. Activities not to be include in your schedule: Procurement (purchasing, inspection and expeditingfi will not be included for this schedule and will be added later by others once the construction requirements are established. Past experience with this type of project is that equipment supply lead times are rarely a constraint on the construction timing for a project of this size. The company will start mobilising to work on site on day one (Monday 18th March, 2019fi. You have consulted with the construction manager and compiled the significant activities and durations for construction listed in Table 1 below. Construction will work a standard '19 day month' which results in working 8 hours per day and taking off one day RDO (rostered day offfi on a Monday in every 4 weeks. The RDO will usually occur in the third week of the month but may shift to link with a public holiday, such as Australia Day and ANZAC Day to take advantage of four day break over a weekend. Public holidays during the construction period include Australia Day, Labour Day, Easter (Good Friday to Easter Mondayfi, Anzac day and Queen's birthday. Web search for Public Holidays in Victoria. Some significant activity relationships are listed as follows. These do not cover all relationships and you are expected to use your common sense and the drawings and specifications to establish the relationships required for the schedule. e17c7405daac3142dbbaa2fcb334f5a6.docx Page 1 of 7 @Australian Cost Engineering Society ACES Assignment #3 - Contractor's Schedule . Removal of the existing shed must be completed before earthworks for site excavation commences. . Similarly demolition of the concrete paths cannot commence until the shed has been removed. · Storm drains, sewer, water, electrical, telephone and gas services can be installed concurrently but only after excavation to the underside of FCR has been completed. · Electrical utilities (undergroundfi must finish at the same time as Storm Drains and underground services. . All underground services must be completed before