AR 1804: CONSTRUCTION MANANGEMENT

POTENTIAL QUESTIONS
Short Answer Questions

1. Who constitutes the construction team? What are their duties and responsibilities?
2. Explain the life cycle of a construction project
3. Explain the various stages in a typical construction project starting from the project initiation till
handover. Explain the role of a project manager in each stage.
4. What is the need for a techno-economic feasibility study in projects
5. Explain Cost benefit analysis
6. Project Management Triangle
7. What is a project feasibility report? What are its contents?
8. Why is a feasibility study important in a construction project
9. What are the various types of feasibility studies
10. What do you understand by the term Time Value of Money
11. What is a cash flow in a construction project? Differentiate between cash inflow, cash outflow
and net cash flow
12. What is depreciation? Explain the types of depreciation calculation. Why is it important in
construction management?
13. Explain the terms Construction Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Controlling.
14. Explain the various steps involved in construction planning, scheduling, monitoring and
controlling
15. Explain any two strategies used for construction planning
16. Explain the various types of scheduling – Time based scheduling and resource based scheduling
17. What do you understand by Time-Cost trade off. Why is it relevant in construction industry?
18. Critical Path and its significance
19. Differentiate between CPM and PERT
20. Types of Delays in construction projects
21. What are the various details in a notice inviting a tender
22. List the various contract documents
23. Differentiate between CPM and PERT
24. What are the limitations of bar charts
25. What is the total float if an activity
26. What is design –build projects. What are its advantages
27. Early Start- Early Finish vs Late Start- Late Finish
28. Project crashing

Long Answer Questions

1. Explain the life cycle of a construction project
2. Explain the process of tendering starting from invitation of tenders to drawing up of contract
documents
3. Explain any four important clauses included in a contract document
4. The following table s
5. A 4 storied commercial building has Ground Floor Area of 100000 Sqft. Its unit cost of
construction is Rs. 3500/ sqft. It is speculated that
 For GFA, unit cost decreases by 3% for each 10% increase in GFA
 For height, up to 7 storeys, unit cost remains constant, but in increase by 5% per storey
beyond that.
Find the total construction cost of a 9 storey high office building of GFA 126,000 sqft in the same
locality. Make necessary assumptions
6. A small project consists of 11 jobs listed below along with their durations and precedence
relationship Job Immediate Duration
a. Prepare the AoA or AoN diagram for the project Predecessor (Days)
b. Prepare a chart for all jobs showing A -- 5
B A 6
 Early start-Early finish schedule
C B 15
 Late start- Late finish schedule D B 3
 Total slack and free slack E B 5
F D 5
G F 2
H F, G 3
7. Explain Project Monitoring. Explain the significance of project
I C, E 2
monitoring in construction management. Explain in detail any J E, H, I 7
3 techniques used in project monitoring K J 6
8. Explain the various avenues in which project management
software can be used in Construction Management. List any 3 construction management software
that you are aware of. Explain the features of any one construction management software.
9. The durations (optimistic, most probable
and pessimistic) and precedence IMMEDIATE DURATION (Months)
JOB
PREDECESSOR To Tm Tp
relationship of jobs for a small project is A ---- 3 6 15
given; B ---- 2 5 14
a) Draw the project network C ---- 6 12 30
D A 2 5 8
b) Determine the critical path. Find
E A 5 11 17
the length and variance of the F C 3 6 15
critical path. G D 4 19 28
c) Find the probability of H F 3 9 27
I B,E,H 1 4 7
completing the project in 40 J G,I 2 5 8
months. K F 3 6 15

10. Briefly explain Linear Scheduling Method

11. What is the differences between resources smoothing and levelling?
12. Describe in detail the steps involved in resource smoothing and levelling.
13. You want to start your own office at your home by remodelling the guest room and attached
balcony on the ground floor.
a) Identify and list 10-12 broad activities that may be required for this along with expected
duration of each. Show the same using a Gantt Chart. Assume the total duration of the
project to be 6 weeks.
b) Does the prepared Gant Chart give you the complete information for planning and
scheduling and controlling the works? Give your opinion.
14. For the project given below :
 a) Draw an AoA or AoN diagram for the work above and find the critical path.
b) Determine the ES, EF, LS, LF, Total float and Free float for all activities

Activity A B C D E F G H I J K
Precedence -- -- -- A C D A,B,C A,B,C E F,G H,I,J
Duration 4 5 6 4 4 4 8 3 3 6 5