“Heaven’s Light is Our Guide”

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
4th YEAR 8th SEMESTER
CE-401
Project Planning & Construction Management

 Pert & CPM:

1. Define event & activity and write down their properties? Write down the classifications
of activity and event. 14,11
2. What do you understand by a “dummy”? what are its uses? Explain. 15,14,13,12,09
3. Define and classify float and briefly explain them. 14
4. What is independent float? Show that it can be determined by subtracting the tail event
slack from the free float. Find out the condition when independent float, FID is equal to
free float, FE . 15,10,09,08
5. Explain the term “earliest expected time” and “latest allowable occurrence time”. How do
you determine them? 14
6. Explain the Fulkerson’s rule for numbering of events with neat sketch. 14,11,09,08
7. Write down the rules that must be followed for preparing the network. 12
8. Differentiate between PERT & CPM network. Illustrate your answer by drawing the two
types of networks for a project. 15,11,09
9. Differentiate between: ***
i. PERT & CPM. 08
ii. Activity & Event. 09,08
10. Write down the characteristics of PERT & CPM project. 11
11. Define critical, sub-critical & super-critical activity. 11
12. Prove that free float is the difference of the total float and the head event slack. 12
13. Prove that for zero tail slack the free float and independent float are equal. 09
14. What do you mean by work break down structure? What is its importance in network
planning? 13
15. Define slack and critical path. What does a negative slack indicate? 08
16. Explain optimistic time estimate, pessimistic time estimate and most likely time estimate.
Also show these three times in unimodal curve of frequency distribution. 13
17. Derive an equation of standard deviation with probability distribution. 13

 Project Management:
1. What is meant by project planning? Write down the importance of project planning.
13,11,10,08
2. What are the objectives of a small project? 08
3. Why planning is necessary. Describe various steps for planning a project. 08
4. What are the basic ingredients in project management? Describe different management
functions and activities. 10

MEjBA_RAJEEM (120003 & 120026) 1|Page

5. What are the conditions of acceptability of a project from engineering point of view? 11
6. “planning is the prime needs for successful completion of a project” – justify the
statement. 12,11
7. What do you mean by project controlling? Describe various steps for controlling a
project. 11
8. What is engineering management? Explain clearly. 10
9. Explain the relation among administration, decision making and management. 10
10. Write short notes on:
i. Cost Slope. 14,09
ii. Resources smoothing. 14,09
iii. Resources leveling. 14
iv. Project planning. 14
v. Scheduling. 14
vi. Controlling. 14
vii. Hiearchies & work breakdown structures. 15,14,13,08
viii. Normal time, crash time, normal cost, crash cost. 15,11,10,09
ix. BCR, Benefit cost ration & internal rate of return. 15,10
11. What do you mean by scientific management? 14,08
12. Define pay back period. Write down the advantages and disadvantages of this method.
What are the suitabilities of this method for a project? 13,12
13. Why forecasting and budgeting are important in planning process? 13,12,09
14. Differentiate between/Explain forward planning, backward planning and combined
planning. 12,10
15. What is cost slope? Determine the cost slope with typical time-cost relationship. 15,12
16. What is Gantt bar chart? 15
17. What is milestone chart? Write down the remedies of shortcomings of bar chart. 15,11,09
18. Write the short comings of bar chart. Draw standard project management circle. 12,11,09
19. Differentiate between:
i. Bar chart & Milestone chart. 11
20. What is benefit cost ration? Describe the importance of benefit cost ratio in construction
engineering? 12,10,08
21. Draw a typical cost-duration curve and show optimum duration and minimum project
cost. 09
22. Explain the time cost optimization procedure. 09
23. What is cost slope? How is it determined? 15,09

 Linear Programming:
1. What do you mean by linear programming? Write down the common characteristics of
linear programming. 15,14,13,10
2. Write down the assumptions of linear programming. 13

MEjBA_RAJEEM (120003 & 120026) 2|Page

 Contract:
1. What is contract? 15,14,10,08
2. What are the essential requirements of a valid contract? 15,14,10,08
3. What are the different forms of contracts? Write down the advantages and disadvantages
of lump sum contract. 12,10,08
4. Which form of contract do you suggest that is suitable for public works? Give reason on
behalf of your opinion. 08
5. “every contract is an agreement but every agreement is not necessarily a contract” –
explain. 11,08
 Fire Safety & Quality Control:
1. Write short note on fire safety of a building. 15,14
2. State the significance of feasibility study of a PC girder bridge construction. 14,10
3. What types of safety measures required for masonry works? 14,12
4. What types of safety measures are required to storage works? 13
5. What types of safety measures are adopted for demolition? 10
6. Write the necessity of inspection and quality control of a project in competitive market.
12

 Specifications:
1. Define specification. What are the objectives of specifications? 15,14,13,11,08
2. What is open & close specification? Write down the advantages & disadvantages of
closed/restricted specifications. 15,14,13,09,08
3. Distinguish between:
i. Open & closed specification. 11
4. Write short notes on brief specifications. Give an example. 15,14,13,11,09,08
5. What are the rules for writing of specifications? 12
 Construction Equipment:
1. What is construction equipment? What are the factors to be considered in selecting the
particular type of construction equipment? 15,13,10
2. Write short notes on heavy civil engineering equipments. Give a brief introduction and
application of the following equipments.
i. Pile driver. 15,14
ii. Pay loader. 14
iii. Power shovel. 15,14,13,08
iv. Percussion drilling. 08
v. Ripper. 15,13,12,11,09
vi. Bull dozer. 13,11
vii. Chain dozer. 12,10
viii. Drag line. 12,10
ix. Dump truck. 11,09
x. Hoist. 10
xi. Mobile crane. 09
3. Name the machines used for excavation works. 08

MEjBA_RAJEEM (120003 & 120026) 3|Page

 Procurement & Resources allocation:
1. What is procurement? Write down the rules for formatting TEC in tendering works.
15,14,13,12,11
2. What are the objectives of case study? 13,10
3. Write short notes on:
i. Tender. 14,11
ii. Security money. 14,11
iii. Cash flow. 14,11
iv. Outage loss. 14,08
v. Histogram. 14,08
vi. Earnest money & Security money. 15,09
4. Discuss in brief the resources allocation problem. What are the methods of solving the
problems? 12,11,09
5. With the help of an illustrative example explain the resources smoothing method. 09

 Updating:
1. What is meant by updating? 11,09,08
2. Why is updating essential? 09,08
3. What are the data required for updating? 12,11,09

*****

MEjBA_RAJEEM (120003 & 120026) 4|Page