19 Jan the revised activity

Group Project, Part II (Module 3)

The Control Schedule Process

The baseline project schedule in MS Project 2016 is contained in the course documents. The

start date (notice to proceed) is set for May 1, 2024 so that the schedule does not need to be

changed during the expected life of this course material. Please ignore the year. For your

convenience, a 2024 calendar is available at the end of this file. The building inspector requires

a three-day window, which can include weekend days. The building department is very good on

performing the inspections within the three-day window. The schedule has been approved by all

stakeholders. WBS items 3.5 and 3.6 are for two-story houses and were deleted from this

schedule because the San Leo is one story. For consistency, the remaining WBS numbers are

the same as a two-story house.

An Excel workbook: House Schedule of Values is included with the course materials. This

workbook has a WBS Budget that includes the initial budget for the WBS items. Notice that the

roll-up items do not have a subtotal. You should also refer to the Microsoft Project form:

Schedule Compression, to help with your assignment for this week.

Situation. The project was on or ahead of schedule during May and June. However, Tropical

Storm Cody sat off the coast, and the jobsite was shut down because of wind, lightning, and/or

rain for the entire first two weeks of July. We were fortunate that lintel and block inspection

passed on June 28. Today is Friday, July 12. It is too wet to work until Monday, but you have

ordered the materials for the roof and the framing, and all materials will be delivered on Sunday.

You’ve probably heard of “saving up for a rainy day.” Well, in the home building business, we

“save up to recover from rain delays”.

In the course materials, there is an Excel workbook that contains the budgeted cost, the

planned value, the percent complete, and the earned value that your team has estimated as of

July 12. The sheet has subtotals and formulas for PV, EV, AC, and BAC. Unfortunately, the

other formulas are missing, and you have to recalculate them.

Your supervisor has asked you and your project management team to develop a recovery plan

to start the drywall work on time by the end of July. That gives you two weeks to do essentially

four weeks of work. The building department has agreed to inspect the day you call in for an

inspection as long as you pay the $200 overtime fee per inspection. For weather delays, your

company’s policy is to always pay this additional inspection cost and costs for extra inspections

out of general company overhead so as not to impact your project budget.

To make up for the weather delay, you’ve talked with the structural engineer regarding the

framing inspection that is required before windows can be installed. (The building department

requires that all structural walls be completed before any windows are installed).You also talked

to the building officials about installing the windows after the inspection of the load bearing wall,

and they agreed. You don’t need to complete all of the framing, just the interior load bearing

wall shown in Figure 1. You realize that your crew can erect this in a 12-hour day. The building

department will have to inspect this wall before the windows are installed, but they agreed to do

that at 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday, so that allows you to install windows all day Tuesday. The cost for

the additional inspection will be paid out of company overhead and not charged to your project.

The sheeting can be started when half of the trusses are installed, but it will still take one day

after the trusses are installed for the sheeting to be installed. The inspector has agreed to be

there first thing in the morning the next day after the sheeting is completed.

You can also shorten the duration for framing, trusses, sheeting, windows, and roofing by

working your crews on overtime pay. You can get up to 12 hours labor per day from your crews,

and they like the overtime pay!

Your foreman estimated 48 hours total for the framing crew to do all of the framing. He

estimated 32 hours for the trusses. The time for the roofing is 80 hours with one roofing crew.

The windows are 56 hours for one crew. You can also pay these crews overtime for 4 hours per

work day and 12 hours on Saturday at a cost of $45 additional per hour. (The straight time

hourly wages are included in the budget.) If needed, your crews can work Sunday at double

time, which would cost an additional $90 per hour. (See the Crew Cost spreadsheet for

calculations.) One of your assistants started a spreadsheet in the budget workbook called

“Schedule Compression” to help develop the cost for the new schedule. She didn’t get it finished

before she went into labor and she will be out for the next 12 weeks.

Assignment: You will complete the second stage of your Group Project—The Control Schedule

process. Work with your group to prepare a recovery plan that can be used to bring the project

back on schedule. Prepare a report to your supervisor that provides a detailed description of

which tasks you will crash and/or fast track, the additional cost for crashing and/or fast-tracking,

the revised activity start and end dates, and any other issues you think should be reported.

Also, explain how crashing and fast tracking will shorten the schedule. Demonstrate your

knowledge of the core value of responsible stewardship by minimizing the cost for overtime pay.

Please make sure that you cite and reference all your outside sources properly. You must have

a minimum of three references, including one peer-reviewed journal article.

Even though you complete this assignment as a group, all students must submit their own paper

to their own individual Assignment box. (This Assignment box basket may be linked to Turnitin.)