Question

General Manager at the Council is considering awarding your team to a new project in Altona North.
The General Manager has invited you to submit a report describing some key items relating to how you
would manage the construction activities. Your report needs to include at least the requirements
below.

a)project monitoring and control

b)project quality

c)project safety

Answer 1

Project Monitoring & Control Process

• Evaluation and comparison of actual measured results against those planned is the fundamental principle of project monitoring process.
• Whenever there is a variance, corrective action is required to keep the project on schedule and to budget.
• The inputs are the project plan and progress reports that contain data collected from the project team.
• Where progress deviates significantly, and this usually means outside of a predetermined tolerance limit, it is important to identify the underlying causes and take corrective action.

• Monitoring Process (on a regular basis)

• Collect.
  • Get the data about the current status of your project.
• Measure and Compare.
  • Compare with baseline plan, highlight any deviation, make a projection based on current data.
• Assess and Re-plan.
  • Decide whether corrective actions are necessary.
  • If so, plan, document, and take the corrective actions.
  • Monitoring and controlling activities
• Involves tracking, reviewing, and regulating project progress
• Includes status reporting, progress measurement, and forecasting
• Reports on scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, and risks
• Controls project and project document changes
• Includes control of scope, schedule, costs, and risks
• Formalizes acceptance of deliverables
• Records quality control results
• Implements risk treatment plans and actions
• Administers suppliers

• Key Results from monitoring process

• Progress and status reports
• Plan updates
• Risks registers
• Change requests
• Work products/deliverables

  Project Quality Quality in construction is defined as ‘meeting or exceeding the requirement of client/owners. In construction industry, quality is used in different every than the product industry. In the product industry, quality of some product is better than the other, but we can not say that one grade of concrete. Quality in construction is employed with conformity with which specifications are met. Designer specifies the grade of concrete to be used and contractor has to use the in gradients of concrete such that desired grade of concrete is obtained. Quality in construction is related to satisfying the specification mentioned in the contract completing the project time. Fulfilling the owner's requirement within budget Avoiding disputes claims and Ensuring the faculties performs its intended purpose. We use certain product in the construction industry such as tiles, brick. Quality of these products can be partially related with the general connotation of quality. Other aspect in quality has slightly different meaning at various stages of life cycle of product such as at design stage or construction stage.

  Project safety Safety is one of the vital issues in the success of the project . Safety programme ensures the worker to be mentally and physically prepared to execute a job quickly ,fearlessly and efficiently . Safety is a way of life . It must be part of every individual at every time during performance of any activity . Working in a fearless protected environment makes the team to be more productive and efficient . Safety is an important parameter to measure a project , as cost of implementation and time of completion of the project . Although every manager , supervisor , worker accept their safety requirement , but it is by-passed by just lip service . Construction is highly accident prone industry . In India , construction industry is labour intensive , with unskilled and untrained worker . Fatal accidents and minor accidents are very frequent . For example , it has been reported that more than two people died in the construction of dam like Bhakhara-Nangal project . In out country , in construction work , a large number of inexperienced laborers are employed . They are unaware of the hazard during their work and generally the company hardly make an effort to explain this worker's inherent risk involved with the job . Medical check-up of the workers is not carried out before engaging them in the construction work . Also , many accidents occur due to the use of improper tools and equiptments . Improper methods and processes are used to cut the time of execution. Such as scaffoldings are not properly made , ladders are not checked properly . Many a time poor quality of safety belts are used , which gets broken during accident .