Reg. No: LUI LI www. universityquestions.. Question Paper Code 163293 M.E. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015. Elective Construction Engineoring and Management ‘CN 7009 — RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL IN CONSTRUCTION (Regulations 2013) Time : Three hours WWW.universityquestions.in meximum : 100 marks Answer ALL questions. PART A — (10 x 2= 20 marks) 1. _ Distinguish between direct and indirect manpower. 2. What do you understand about material schedule? 8, How will you estimate the worker's productivity standard? 4. What is meant by ‘cost of labour’? 5. What are the causes of controllable wastes? 6. State the steps involved monitoring material delivery schedule. 7. Mention the stages in project time monitoring. 8. What are the roles of management in cost control? 9. Define ‘rate of crashing’. 10. What is meant by resource loading? PART B — (6 x 16 = 80 marks) 11. (a) “Bring out the scope of resource planning with reference to construction resources. (16) Or (&) Enumerate the concept of cost control and its importance in minimising the project cost. (6)12. 4. 15. @ &) @ © @ ® @ ) www.universityquestions.in (i) Discuss the factors affecting the production efficiency of construction labourers. @®) Gi) Explain the methods of measuring the labour requirements. (8) Or Deseribe the System Approach in labour resource planning and scheduling. (16) Explain the "Material Provieioning process’ with a typical example. (16) Or @® Describe the functional classification of construction equipments. (8) (i) Bring out the factors to be considered for selecting the construction equipments. ® @) What do you understand about ‘what-if analysis? Explain its method of analysis. . © (é) Explain the ‘line of balances’ method of scheduling with an example. (ao Or Discuss the causes of direct and indirect cost variances. (a6) Mlvstrate the application of Value Bngineering and Value Management in resource allocation with a typical example. (a6) Or ‘The interrelationship between activities, their duration and their resource requirements (Masone & Labourers) of a 14 activity project is given below: Activity Duration Mason Labourer 12 2 1 23 24 25 3-10 46 4g 5-9 68 79 89 oll 10-11 11-12 Heenan VONOAKRARKAD AO NHR wR eWwNNONWD Compute the smoothened resource requirement for the project. (26) 2 63293