American Constructors Inc:

World Outreach Expansion

Project

 The company ACI , found in 1979 is a leading

construction company in Middle Tennessee ,US.
This organization has worked for more than 600
projects and has a turnover of US $ 1 billion.
It was licensed in 15 states and its major
construction markets are public and private
schools, churches, health care facilities
,entertainments and office buildings properties.

 One of the major projects of ACI was the Completion of

World Outreach Church expansion (WOC).
WOC was established in 1980s as an interdenominatioal congregation.
In late 2009,the church had more than 5000 members
and was broadcast on three different challenges.
It also offered,24/7 radio show and MP3 downloads of
selected sermons.
It had a became a major establishment with a high
profile congregants.

 As the construction of WOC was one of the major assignment of ACI, the
main problem faced by it was the completion of project in time.
Although the team had been working on the World Outreach Church
project for over a year and it was nearing completion, the project deadline
was preponed.
The project was originally scheduled for completion by March 2010 but
the client desired to get it done by Thanksgiving holiday, November
26,2009.
Tom Grott, the project manager for ACI recognised the impossibility of the
project and compromised by addition of few additional weeks to the
clients desired date and finally the completion date was pushed to
December 14, 2009 before Christmas season..
As the impeding deadline was creating significant tension on the site, the
project manager of ACI, with his team evaluated the progress of their
building expansion project on September 24 ,2009.

 As ACI had became a big and strong name in

construction market, so in an effort to uphold
the reputation and future opportunities, Grott
wanted to ensure that project gets completed
in time.

Oppurtunity

Remaining Work will start from 25th September

Framing completed in 21days
Architectural Millwork will take 15days
All receive are corrected in 5days
Considering the task dependent on weather Concrete Layer
for carpeting should take 7days
As material was laid with precision, so 3additional days were
not required.
Installation of doors and hardwares will take only 5days in
Sanctuary work.
For pleasant weather conditions pouring of staircase would be
done in 8days.

Analysis of the situation

Impending deadline(14 December 2009) was
the significant tension on the site.
With the help of gantt chart and data given in
the case, we deduced that deadline of 14
December 2009 were not made if overtime
were scheduled .
It was identified that three main section were
remained unfurnished as on 24 September
2009.These section includes
Kitchen/bookstore/caf, Lobby and Sanctuary.

Analysis of the situation

Kitchen/bookstore/caf and Lobby were
completed well on time. While the Bowl
activity that was included in Sanctuary was
main cause exceeding the deadline (14
December 2010).

Gantt Chart for Project

Alternatives and assessments

For the pending construction work, we have made our
resources work for Saturdays and Sundays, the
alternative option would be to make them work for 10
hours on weekdays and half day on Saturdays and
Sundays.
Other option would be to complete the Cleanup
activities of the construction area and punch list
individually for each section - as the Lobby and Kitchen
were completed well in time the clean up can be done
for those areas first. After that when the Sanctuary
would be completed all the resources would work for it
to complete it faster.

Decisions, plan of action,

implementation
As the project has to met its deadline, it was
decided to increase the working days while
keeping no change in per day working hours.
Workers were given incentives for working on
weekends .However, it was also ensured the
genuine needs and urgencys leave of labors were
satisfied.
While, the alternative of increasing the working
hours was equally good but it would effect the
working efficiency of labors or they make felt
more fatigued.

Modified Gantt Chart for Sanctuary