HOOVER DAM PROJECT CHARTER

Group 21
Hoover Dam, Arizona and
Project
Nevada, USA

Contract
Owner United States Government 5 years
Duration

49 million
Main Contractor USBR Project Value
Dollars

PROJECT SCOPE

Project is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River,
Business Need
on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.

• Save Arizona-Nevada state from Colorado River southeast of Las Vegas

flooding
• Generate cheap electricity to supply power to homes and industry for
Project Goals
Arizona , Nevada and South California
• Complete the project with high level of quality and within stipulated time
• To make a plan & cost plan which will be weekly monitored

Hoover Dam looms 726 feet (221 meters) above Black Canyon on the Arizona-
Nevada state line. It’s 660 feet (201 meters) wide at the base and 1,244 feet (379
meters) across at the top. It weighs 6.6 million tons. Behind the dam, Lake Mead is
Product Description the country’s largest reservoir, capable of holding more than 9 trillion gallons
(that’s 3.41 × 1,013 liters) of water from the Colorado River. Water from the lake
drives turbines inside the dam that generate electricity for Arizona, Nevada, and
Southern California.
Hoover Dam is a project of the Bureau of Reclamation, US department of the
interior. Reclamation's mission is to manage develop and protect water and related
Scope
resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner of the benefit of
the American public
• Project implementation within the contract duration
Critical Success
• Project implementation cost doesn’t exceed project budget
Factors
• Execute project in the required quality
Project stakeholders Government, Frank Crowe , Construction Firm, Labourers
 • constructional deaths (96)
• Ground stability
• severe weather conditions (50.C)
Risks
• Build camping for labor forces
• Curing Concrete

Strategic Benefits:
• Gain a new client

• Improve policy of expansion

• be leader in the industry

Economic Benefits
• Increase company fund

• Good planned profit to be estimated by

Business Benefits
• Keep the company machines in action

Social Benefits
• Keep the existing human resource working.

• Making new working opportunities.

• Having a giant battery system.

• Making new cities

HIGH LEVEL MILESTONE and TIMELINE

Milestone/Task Date Start Date Finish
Contract Assigning 7th July 1930
Project Start 1931
Carving four Tunnels Jan-31 1932
Turn the river into Arizona tunnels 13th Nov 1932

Building two barriers (dams) to protect from

Dec-32
floods after turning the river into Arizona tunnels

Digging works ,Installation of columns of the

6th June 1933 29th May 1935
structure of the dam arch concrete building
Date of Launch 1936
BUDGET

Material Cost 12244335

Labour Cost 3211685
Non-Labor Cost 26568059
Total Direct Cost 42024079

Project Overhead 4765513

Office Overhead 2101407

Total Indirect Cost 48890999
Total Cost 48890999
Profit 9109001
Total Price 58000000