Construction project B4

in this project the construction of 60 apartments was being executed for building phase 4 it had a construction period of 18 months beginning in January 2014 with a budget of 131 million Norwegian Kroners building company X took hold of the project with contracts controlled by the Builder which meant that company X was responsible for a team of six employees one project manager one engineering design manager three building services managers and one customer coordinator the project team had their fair share of experience with having worked on quite a similar project that was closing to an end

called B 3 around the same time B 4 was starting up the team had been working on P 3 from September 2012 continuing into 2014 which was a fairly identical housing project to P 4 but P 3 had a different project manager than before the construction time for P 3 was 18 months but due to a lot of problems mentioning errors in apartments and internal conflicts within the construction team they had a hectic deadline period and just barely managed to deliver the apartments on time the project execution did not flow well and after finishing the

project the whole team suffered from internal tension and lack of motivation even though the project B 3 and B 4 were quite similar the project owner wanted some change the main differences between the two projects were in the building time the B 3 had a time frame of 18 months while b4 was reduced to only 14 to 15 months the same project team that was working on p3 had been assigned to before with one exception the management realized that they had to do some changes from v3 and decided to remove the project manager from v3

and replaced him with a construction manager from v4 the new project leader called the team into a meeting in this meeting he wanted everyone to discuss both what was working and what wasn't on the last project could they have made some changes to make it better the team concluded that they should have a clear role and responsibility distribution for example if the project manager had some spare time to assist with the construction the construction manager was still the chief in charge for this area and further on thoroughly work with the time schedule before start clear

goals and measures to avoid failure and lasts establish contracts with the contractors that both parts can be secured about the customers are important stakeholders as the project success strongly rely on their satisfaction company X is owner builder and defines the success criteria the project leader had a challenge of motivating steam and to figure out how to meet success criterias within the time schedule the bank municipality and the neighbors are other important stakeholders risk evaluation was performed in the project planning phase and several actions were made to lower the risk of the project 70% of all

the additional costs were included in the contracts to ensure economic predictability the project leader were changed to lower the risks associated with bad communication within the team the project leader overlapped project positions to lower the vulnerability if someone would quit only two buffers summer and Christmas holidays were made in order to keep the time schedule the smart home solution from v3 were excluded from the sales prospect due to high risks coupled with technical issues the main constraint on the execution of this project was a strict time frame that had to be at her to by

distributing the burgers vacation weeks throughout the summer they managed to catch up on minor delays and getting back on track later the news that one of the construction leaders had to be transferred to another project led to concerns regarding the strict time frame however good project structure and systematic work led to the project being on schedule before the Christmas break the pre-inspection towards the end of the project revealed that the parquet in one of the apartments was of the wrong sort this was an error done by the park a supplier and would not have been

discovered without such an inspection there was still enough time to fix this problem within the time frame and apartments was delivered with no errors eventually the construction project turned out to be a great success for company X apartments were delivered with zero errors and without use of the time frame buffer in the contract estimates indicated that the project was completed five million Norwegian Kroners below budget and there was agreement that the execution of b4 was improved in all areas compared to b3