Construction Management

1) Excavation, Curing of concrete, Erecting of Brick wall, Scaffolding represents an activity.

2) Final Technical authority of a Project lies with Chief Engineer.
3) A dummy activity is artificially introduced, represented by a dotted line and does not consume
time.
4) Military organization is also known as Line organization
5) Various activities of a project are shown on Bar charts by Horizontal lines
6) Critical Path Method helps an Engineer to concentrate his attention on Critical activities, to
divert the resources from non critical advanced activities to critical activities, to be cautious
for avoiding any delay in the critical activities to avoid delay of the whole project.
7) The most popular type of organization used for Civil Engineering construction is Line
Organization.
8) Construction team comprises of Engineer, Architect, Owner and Contractor.
9) The sequence of network for activities
• Erection of Formwork
• Pouring of Concrete
• Curing of Concrete
• Removal of Formwork
10) The Estimated time required to perform an activity is called as Duration
11) Barcharts are suitable for Minor works
12) The overall incharge of an organization at the site responsible for the execution of work is Site
Engineer.
13) The reduction in project time normally results in Increasing the direct cost and decreasing the
indirect cost
14) Crash project duration is obtained by summing the Crash durations for all the activities along
the critical path obtained by taking into account the crash duration for all the activities
15) In the time-cost optimisation, using CPM method for network analysis, the crashing of the
activities along the critical path is done starting with the activity having Least cost slope
16) The time corresponding to minimum total project cost is Between normal time and crash time
17) For completion of a project, the critical path of the network represents minimum time
18) The constraints in case of resource smoothening operation would be Project duration time
19) The direct cost of a project with respect to normal time is Minimum
20) If D is the duration, ES and EF are the earliest start and finish, LS and LF are latest start and latest
finish time, then the following relation holds good EF = ES + D, LS = LF – D, LF = LS + D
21) Total float for any activity is defined as the difference between Its latest start time and earliest
start time
22) Critical path is always longest.
23) Residential buildings are treated as Light construction
24) Railway permanent ways are treated as heavy construction
25) ABC Analysis is a technique of material control according to Value.
26) Inventory control is an important part of Material management.