COSC 153 FINAL EXAM
WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100 % PASS
WHAT DOES A CONSTRUCTION MANAGER DO? - Answer-•Managing the Project
Team
•Perform Pre-Construction Services
•Estimating the Project
•Administering the Contract
•Managing Job Site and Construction Operations
•Planning and Scheduling the Project
•Monitoring Project Performance
•Managing Project Quality
•Managing Project Safety
•Assessing and Managing Project Risks
Perform Pre-Construction Services - Answer-•Services provided prior to construction
and helping guide the owner, architect and engineers by providing important information
associated with material selection, costs, schedule challenges, labor and
constructability issues
Estimating the Project - Answer-•Entails the calculation and pricing of all materials,
equipment and man-hours needed to complete the work
Administering the Contract - Answer-•Managing all the business affairs related to the
contract parties and their obligations. This involves the efforts of many managers. This
is all about the "red tape" and paperwork: submittals, RFIs, shop drawings, time cards,
certified payroll, inspections, etc.
Managing Job Site and Construction Operations - Answer-•Managing all activities and
needs linked with workers doing their jobs: tools, equipment, traffic, parking, deliveries,
storage, security, communications, signage, safety, trash, drinking water, lunch breaks,
etc
Planning and Scheduling the Project - Answer-•Organizing the activities that have to
take place in a logical sequence in order to get the project from the ground breaking
phase (or earlier) to the occupancy phase. It is used to communicate the plan to all
members of the project team
,Managing Project Quality - Answer-•Managing the standard of the plans and
specifications - within these documents, specific measurable conditions are given;
dimensions, tolerances, test results, temperatures, etc.
•It consists of inspections, field tests, lab tests and observations according to the QC
Plan
Managing Project Safety - Answer-The ability to do work on a construction site is
directly related to safe surroundings. The Construction Manager is in charge of creating
a Safe environment but is the job of EVERYONE in the project to make sure the project
site remains safe.
Assessing and Managing Project Risks - Answer-•Analyzing all the project risks and
assigning the appropriate and better team member to manage it.
Finding Work - Answer-•Maintain a constant stream of potential work
•Intelligence gathering efforts
•Maintain relationship with developers and designers who may inform companies on the
upcoming work
•Participate and have company personnel as members of construction groups such as
AIC, ABC, AGC, CMAA, etc.
•Plan for which projects to chase and which ones to skip
•Constantly market your company
•DO A GOOD JOB ON THE PROJECTS YOU DO SO THE CLIENTS CAN REPEAT
AS CLIENTS
Marketing Efforts - Answer-•Marketing is much more than only name recognition
•Marketing is now more focused on getting owners to team up with contractors at early
stage of project, during design and pre-construction
•These efforts involve constructability review, costs, value engineering, etc
•The goal is to get in early and convince owners to negotiate contracts in lieu of bidding
them
Public or Private - Answer-•Type of Public projects:
-Dams, Bridges, roads, schools, airports, government office buildings, public or military
hospitals, and other type of government facilities
•Types of Private projects:
-Office buildings, retail, convention centers, hotels, housing, industrial, and anything
else that may be able to be sold or rented
Public Projects - Answer-•Simple Definition - Projects paid by public funds.
•Always follow an "Open Bid" process
•Owner cannot restrict the number of contractors who bid the project
•How to help with this issue? Bid bonds, performance bonds and payment bonds -
issues by surety company
, •Another way to help select contractor is by: Prequalification process - usually by points
system
Prehistoric Homes - Answer-•First homes where done with branches, bones, stones and
animal fur
Prehistoric Construction - Answer-•Major Historical Construction projects were always
Religious based
Bronze Age Construction Homes - Answer-•Bronze Age homes were much more
advanced and involved precision cut wood members such as columns and beams and
roofs mostly made of
Construction in Egypt - Answer-•Egyptians best known and bigger projects were tombs
for their ruling class.
•Pyramids were a portal into the afterlife
•Main construction method: stone, mortar and gravity for structural purposes
Mortar and Concrete - Answer-•The Egyptians used calcined gypsum as a cement and
the Greeks and Romans used lime made by heating limestone and added sand to make
mortar, with coarser stones for concrete.
•The Romans found that a cement could be made which set under water and this was
used for the construction of harbors.
Construction in Greece - Answer-•
•The Erechtheion or Erechtheum is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the
Acropolis of Athens in Greece which was dedicated to both Athena and Poseidon.
Construction in Rome - Answer-•The Roman Arch - Ancient Roman builders relied
heavily on the rounded arch to span great lengths. Several rounded arches that are
constructed in-line and end-to-end in a series form an arcade, e. g. in Roman
aqueducts.
Construction in Rome - Answer-•The Romans constructed aqueducts throughout their
Republic and later Empire, to bring water from outside sources into cities and towns.
Aqueduct water supplied public baths, latrines, fountains, and private households; it
also supported mining operations, milling, farms, and gardens
Construction during the Industrial Revolution - Answer-•Factory Construction
•Massive Housing
•Roads and Bridges
•Railways
•Sewers
•Canals
•Housing needed to be close to factory
•Housing for all workers and families
