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Technological Innovation and Life

Cycle (UBLMFQ-30-3)

Course Work (T119)

(Full & Part Time)

Department of Architecture and the Built Environment

University of the West of England

In collaboration with Auston Institute of Management, Singapore

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PART ONE (1)

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COURSEWORK PART ONE (1)

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND LIFE CYCLE

Part One (1) write up consists of the following:

1. Feasibility and Strategy Project

2. Task

3. Compulsory Topics

4. Timetable for Part One (1)

5. Criteria of Report

6. General Assessment

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FEASIBILITY and STRATEGY PROJECT

Assume the Sand Marina Hospital, Singapore is yet to be developed.

With the benefit of hindsight, you are required to develop a report evaluating

aspects of feasibility and strategy phase of the project, making proper

reference to the client objectives, opportunities and constraints shaping the

project.

Sand Marina Hospital (SMH) Project NHG Foundation Trust is redeveloping

their site at Sand Marina into a new combined 800- bed facility incorporating the

departments and wards of Sand and Marina hospitals. The project is proposed to

be delivered through a PFI (PPP) contract with a 30-year period for maintaining and

running the facilities for approximately S$440m.

Some buildings and car parks need to be demolished and departments

moved so that space can be created for the new acute hospital block, which will be

situated to south of the site. Some new & temporary buildings have to be completed

in advance and in other parts of the site, pre-construction is necessary to cope with

the initial demolition and loss of car parks. The hospital will include a new staff car

park at ground level and a new multi-storey car park for visitors and a helipad for

emergencies. The completed building will cover all the existing capacity at Sand

and Marina hospitals. The new facility needs to be phased-in, as the existing acute

care services at Sand Marina needs to continue during the duration of the building

works. The majority of the new block will be constructed in the first phase by taking

away half of the Orthopaedic block and re-housing, and which will then be

completely removed for the second phase after transferring the existing staff. Other

hospitals and departments such as the Women’s and Children’s hospital will

continue to operate. Although these departments do not come within the

construction site, you need to consider their external needs during the construction

phase. As can be seen from the site plan, private estates surround the proposed

site for this project.

You are required to produce a report developing your team’s delivery

strategy incorporating elements within the project as detailed below:

Phase 1 – the design and construction of the new hospital

Phase 2 – the demolition of the existing hospital and construction of the new main

entrance and visitor multi-storey car park.

The report must take into account key project drivers and deliverables.

Important Note: Your strategy must consider the handover of the phased works to

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ensure continuity in hospital operations during the construction phase.

Use the following indicative dates to develop your assignment:

- Site will be handed over to contractor early 2021;

- All works for Phase 1 should be complete within 25-30 calendar month.

Works for Phase 2 must be complete within 15 calendar months after

completion of Phase 1.

You are encouraged to look at the drivers and risks to ensure that the tasks

can be fully undertaken and a robust strategy developed with the benefit of

hindsight.

TASK

You are required to work in a team of 2-4 members to develop your ideas.

➢ Each team member must deliver a report covering four compulsory topics (2 for

the Feasibility Report – (A1 and A2); and 2 compulsory topics for the Strategy

Report, (B1 and B2)). You should then choose one more optional topic ensuring

each member of the team chooses a different optional topic from the other

members of the team.

Note: Each individual will deliver a final report covering five topics.

➢ Your reflections from the lecture notes should be summarised in not more than 3

pages (A4) and attached as an appendix of this report. You can draw on theses

reflections to support relevant parts of your report. A working file will need to be

kept and maintained to provide evidence for your team discussions and strategic

approaches. Minutes, action plans and other relevant supporting information must

be available within this working file to demonstrate effective team working towards

the tasks. Please feel free to make assumptions about the project but do not

contradict the brief when making those assumptions, and make clear any

assumptions you have made. As the project is designed to be interactive and based

on the principles of good project management, it is anticipated that additional team

discussions should take place between team members outside of the timetabled

sessions. You are encouraged to use appropriate collaborative virtual technologies

or media to facilitate discussions when face to face meetings are not possible.

Report

Each topic you choose must be applied fully to the specific opportunities and

constraints of the SMH project described above. It should also fit seamlessly with

other elements (topics) undertaken by the other members of your team. Additional

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guidance will be provided by module team leader to assist with each topic area.

Important Note: Your analysis and report must reflect the holistic nature of

decision making and team-working necessary for a project of such magnitude and

complexity.

COMPULSORY TOPICS

Evaluate the following aspects of feasibility and strategy making proper reference

to the client objectives, opportunities and constraints shaping the project. Your

evaluation must be based on the following topics

Compulsory Feasibility Topics

A1. Procurement strategy

A2. Project risk and stakeholder management strategy

Compulsory Project Strategy Topics

A3. Produce a schedule/programme for the pre-construction phases (i.e. initiation,

feasibility, and strategy and design development) of the project presented as a

Gantt chart. This must clearly identify milestones and project constraints and show

consideration for the expected construction start date and time-scales. Provide

justification and rationalisation for your choice of milestones.

A4. Develop a site layout to enable the project to be effectively delivered. This

should reflect the phasing of the works and information generation in the

construction phase and should include welfare, logistics, and storage, waste

management, deliveries, and transport, access and health and safety provisions.

Optional Topics:

Choose ONE from the topics below and evaluate (ensure each member chooses a

different topic in the group).

Optional Feasibility Topics

B1. Transport and traffic strategy

B2. Sustainability strategy

B3. Design management strategy (Optional Strategy Topics)

B4. Develop a project organisation and communication structure.

B5. Produce a Health and Safety strategy in line with current WSHC legislation,

with reference to the pre- contract and post-contract issues. This must include an

appropriate risk assessment/register (This must include both designer’s risk

assessments and a pre-construction risk assessments).

Your report must show references using the UWE Harvard system.

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Specific project material, for example, site layout, elevations, zoning and room

layouts and power point presentations, client design brief will be provided.

novated to “Sand Marina Hospital”

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PART ONE(1) TIME TABLE

Week Lectures Tutorial

Activities Remarks

Week 1

Introduction, Project Management, Project Definition and Client Requirements.

Procurement Strategy, Value Management

Forming Teams, Client requirements

Selecting procurement methods; Video Discussion

Week 1

Project Feasibility and Stakeholder Management

Sustainability, life cycle assessment

Stakeholder analysis, risk analysis, Video Discussion

Investment appraisal/ Video Discussion

Week 2 Design management / Planning permission for major construction project

Week 2 Reflection on lectures with relation to Sand Marina Hospital (SMH)

Discussion

Week 3 Formative Assessment- Phase 1 Discussion

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CRITERIA OF REPORT

The reports will be assessed in line with the Undergraduate grading criteria for

report writing. You need to cover all topics equally in order to achieve the best

overall mark.

Report Perspective

You are writing a formal report from the perspective of the client’s project

management team advising about feasibility and the most effective strategy for

project delivery. All reference material should be acknowledged using the rules of

the UWE Harvard system. You are encouraged to support your assumptions with

references to other similar project case studies.

Important Note: Format of report (team production)

1. Your will be bound as one with a contents page, continuous page numbers and

headers or footers.

2. You are limited to two (A4) pages for each topic. Make sure the information you

provide is balanced across each topic.

3. Appendices should be limited to 3 pages per topic and 2 pages for reflections on

site visits. References to publications are expected and required. For large

diagrams, graphics and tables etc., the appendix page may be A3 in size as long as

it is accessibly bound into the report. 4. The format comprises 2cm margins, 1.5

spacing and Arial 11pt font. If you find it easier to orientate your work to landscape

format, you are allowed to.

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GENERAL CRITERIA

Important Note:

Remember to provide evidence of research and demonstrate knowledge of the

topic. Your reports should also provide evidence of integration between topic areas

within an effective team environment.

Helpful texts and Key texts:

1. Construction Project management and CIOB (Fewings 2013)

2. Code of Practice for Project Management in Construction & Property (CIOB 2010) CPPMC

3. Value management Key text and Kelly and Male Value Management & CPPMC Appendix 10 2. Programming Cooke and Williams

4. Cash Flow Cooke and Williams and Construction Cost Management (Potts K. 2008) 4. Site access & Transport See Southmead Hospital Outline Briefing and Planning Application

5. Planning and Tender Project Planning Documents and Ethics for the BE (Fewings 2013)

6. Risk management Fewings (2005) and CPPMC appendix 9

7. Quality Management Baden Hellard Total Quality Management and Fewings (2013)

8. Sustainability and also Ethics in the Built Environement (Fewings 2008) CPPMC

9. Organisation and communications CPPMC Appendix 25 and Fewings (2013)

10. Health and Safety CPPMC Appendix 2 and ACOP for CDM.

11. Site layouts Cook and Williams & Harris and McCaffer Modern Construction

Management

12. Project Funding Fewings (2013)

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Submission of Report: 17 March 2019 (Sunday), 2359hrs

Please submit WORD and PDF report and Safe Assign PDF similarity report

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PART TWO (2)

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novated to: “The Point @ Padang Basin”

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COURSEWORK PART TWO (2)

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND LIFE CYCLE

Part Two (2) write up consists of the following:

1. Objectives of Part Two (2)

2. Project Scenario

3. Project Details – The Point, Padang Basin, Singapore

4. Part Two (2) Requirements

5. Timetable for the Part Two (2)

6. Assessment Criteria

7. Assessment Weightings

8. Workshop Tutorial Sessions

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OBJECTIVES of PART TWO (2)

This Part is centred on a constructed complex building project to ensure that you

are confronted with realistic construction problems. You will be required to make

and justify the ‘big’ decisions at a strategic level and also the more detailed

decisions that are necessary to develop and produce a successful technological

solution.

Central to the module will be your ability to think critically based on value

management principles, to focus on specific client’s requirements, and to analyse

the complex relationship that exists between building design, building performance,

cost and production criteria. Key stages of the decision making process will

therefore involve you in the following:

- extracting and examining critical project information,

- identifying problems and opportunities, assessing risk,

- determining building performance standards and production requirements

within cost constraints,

- developing and evaluating alternative ideas on different technologies and

production processes based on value analysis including Whole Life Cycle

Costing

- “fine tuning” of early ideas to enable the best decisions to be made,

justifying decisions made.

Important Note: Remember to use the lessons learnt from Part One (1) in this

Part Two(2) of the module.

PROJECT SCENARIO

Assume you are employed with a Construction Management company who form part

of a Project Team that is responsible for deciding how the building is to be

constructed and produced within time and cost limits in 2018. The Project Architect

has produced elevations and a spatial layout that have been approved by the client and

the Town Planning Authorities. The Construction Management team will therefore

need to make and justify proposals on a suitable technology that will satisfy the

client’s requirements and be in keeping with the building’s design. In addition, the

Construction Management team will need to take account of the results from ground

investigation and other site constraints.

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PROJECT DETAILS – The Point, Padang Basin, Singapore

Project Description

The proposed development, The Point, is a prestigious pre-let office development measuring 80 x 30m in plan, consisting ten storeys of office accommodation above ground level, a lower ground floor and a 7.5m high basement. The basement accommodates plant, car parking and a loading bay. A basement mezzanine in some areas provides additional plant space. Vehicle access to the basement area from ground level is via two vehicle lifts.

The shape of the building suggests a ship and the recessed lower ground floor creates the effect of a dry dock. The building sets back at the 7 th floor. Two cores service the building, the larger one being to the east. The atrium is located at the centre of the building and goes from the lower ground floor to a glazed roof at level 10. A perimeter light well provides natural light to the lower ground floor and venting to the basement level plant areas. The building provides two tenant entrances and floor plates that are sub-divisible up to 4 ways. In total the building offers approximately 2065m 2 of office space. Client Requirements

The client aims are to provide an office of a high aesthetic, technical and environmental

quality. The client would like sustainable technology to be specified where this is

practical. Technological innovation and life cycle implications of the chosen

construction must be considered. The client wants all decisions to be value driven. The

architect has already provided maximum transparency, both in the facades and atrium

to maximise natural light and reduce energy usage levels.

All lettable office areas are to have 300mm deep (including finish) raised floors that are to be fully accessible with 600mm square tiles. An internal clear height from floor finish to ceiling finish of 2.9m is required in lettable areas. Air conditioning is also required.

The client has negotiated a construction programme of 20 months, starting in mid 2020, to complete the shell and core of the building and an additional 5 months for an

internal fit out. The estimated construction cost is S$90 million. Because of cash flow implications on loans, the client has insisted that substantial LADs be inserted into contractual conditions for a delayed handover.

Building Design and Standards

The building is required to be designed for a 100 year life span. Only low level maintenance is desired throughout the life of the building. Fire performance is to conform, at least, with the latest Singapore Fire Regulations on fire test methods and standards.

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Due consideration should be given to ‘future proofing’ and this could mean exceeding current legislative thermal performance standards that take account of future global warming implications.

The building’s designer has allowed for a typical lettable floor to have a clear slab to slab height of 3.9m. Within this space, an integrated service and structural zone of 420mm and a ceiling/lighting zone of 150mm has been provided.

Typical Floor loadings are tabulated below:

Type Loadings (kN/m2) Remarks

Live Load 4.0

General Partition 1.0 Light weight demountable

Raised Floor 0.8

An environmental noise survey of the area indicates that the highest noise levels that will be incident on the fabric of the new building will occur during the daytime and will arise on the northern side of the building. Levels of order 65 dB (LAeq) are anticipated on the northern façade. The southern façade of the building will be exposed to lower levels of noise by 3 to 5 dB. The façade sound insulation requirements for the southern façade may therefore be correspondingly lower than for the northern façade. The building must also meet Singapore Green Mark “Gold” Sustainability standard as a

minimum. (UK BREEAM ‘Very good’ equivalent)

Site Conditions The site is relatively flat with only a slight rise towards the east. Existing ground levels are on average 30.0 AMSL. The majority of the land in recent years has been used as public car parks surfaced with concrete, tarmacadam and cobble sets. Existing services have already capped off or removed. There are existing residential buildings on the other side of North Road. Sentosa Hospital is on the southern side from the site, across the Padang Basin. The top water level in the canal is 29.50 AMSL with a bottom of 27.25 AMSL which is where the existing canal wall starts. Delivery vehicles will not be allowed to queue outside the site on the traffic lanes of North Road. There are no restricted working times on the contract but given the surrounding buildings, the contractor must consider the policy of being a ‘considerate constructor’ when deciding working times.

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Soil Conditions

A site investigation report has been carried out and the findings are outlined as follows:

From AMSL To AMSL Soil Type

+32 +28 Soil Fill

+28 +25 Soft to Firm Gravelly Clay

+25 +19.5 Sand & Gravel

+19.5 -20 Stiff to Very Stiff Clay

A perched water table is present in the Soil Fill over the Soft to Firm Gravelly Clasy.

A second perched water table is present at 22m AMSL in the Sand & Gravel layer

above the Stiff to Very Stiff Clay.

In the Soil Fill layer (first layer), the SPT ‘N’ values vary between 3 and 14. The ‘N’

value in the Gravelly Clay (second layer) ranges from 3 to 29 and shows an increase

in strength with depth. For the Sand & Gravel (third layer), the SPT ‘N’ values are

highly variable, ranging from 11 to 107 indicating medium dense to very dense

conditions; the average ‘N’ value can be taken as 32. Finally, the ‘N’ values of the

Stiff to Very stiff Clay (fourth layer) range from 17 to 214 and show an increase in

strength with depth.

With regard to groundwater, there would not appear to be large quantities of water

present as some installed standpipes were dry when monitored. However, possible

ingress of water should be anticipated during excavation. Construction of cut off

structures taken into the stiff to very stiff clay will inhibit water ingress by extending

flow paths through the less permeable clay strata and should be considered.

The effects of heave in the upper levels of the very stiff clay will need to be

considered. A contamination study indicates sporadic instances of individual

elements above the ‘uncontaminated’ threshold, with some over the ‘action’

threshold. Elevated levels of Arsenic, phytotoxic metals of copper and zinc, and

sulphates were found. However, the contamination appears to be random rather than

systematic. After the development since there will be no contact between the user of

the building and the soil, no harm is likely to be caused. The contamination issues

are therefore of concern only during construction. For disposal purposes it is likely

that the Soil Fill will be classified at the first rating above ‘industrial non-hazardous’.

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PART TWO (2) REQUIREMENTS

You will be required to undertake the following:

-To become a member of a Construction Management team, consisting of 3, that

decides the complete technological strategy for the building project based on sound

value analysis, life cycle cost analysis and research;

-Each member will have the responsibility of researching a specific type of

innovation (technological solution/product related to external envelope cladding)

and present a 15 minute-PPTX presentation. Here you will additionally focus on

financial/life cycle cost analysis of proposed technology.

-To individually produce a report on one work package that help fulfil the overall

technological strategy (Maximum word count = 2500 words and Maximum 10 page

appendices).

-To provide a 20 minute-PPTX group seminar presentation that critically reflects on overall strategic and detailed production decisions and process for the project.

More details follows: Construction Management’s Team Technological Strategy

a. Investigate and propose construction technology solutions to be adopted,

specific to the building project (The Point). Clearly indicate the ‘big’ decisions that have been made in the selection of construction products and technological solutions.

b. Overall strategy must be based on 4 work packages for the Substructure

(Foundation and Basement), Superstructure (Frame), Superstructure (Structural floor systems) and External envelope (Cladding/Wall/Curtain walling). Each member of the team must be responsible for one work package. All team members are responsible for external envelope/cladding.

c. Selection of a specific technological solution/product for each work package

must be done with the aid of a value analysis technique (i.e. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) or Simple Multi Attribute Rating Technique (SMART)). [These techniques will be discussed at lectures]. There must be a critical examination of the innovation and decision on whether to use it, or not, for the building. You need to consider 3 other alternatives for each work package.

You need to consider the implication of your choices on the production process. You must consider life cycle performance and cost criteria in the decision-making. Additionally whole life cycle cost (WLC) considerations will be required for external envelope/cladding.

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d. Your final group strategy must be based on the value analysis for each work

packages

e. You will present a solution after each workshop. Provide a summary highlighting

the main construction technology strategy for the project. Provide solutions for each of the workshops during the semester. Finally, indicate who in the team is responsible for developing each work package(s).

Important Note: The summary of the overall technology strategy (Group) should be discussed with the module leader before the final presentation.

Individual Presentation of Research Technology and Report on Work Package(s) Presentation of Individual Research: Innovative Technological Solution for a Work Packages: You will provide a two 15 minutes PPTX presentations on types of innovation (technological solution/product). Your research will be based on the work package assigned to you in class. You will provide references and links to sources of information on this innovation (technological solution/product). Your presentation should include:

List drivers/criteria that involve selection of the technologies for the work package being investigated;

Clear articulation and understanding of its potential benefits and

disadvantages; An explanation of the production process (resources needed etc.);

Justify why it is an innovation and how does it compares to alternatives Present Whole Life Costing analysis (external envelope/cladding only)

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You will provide references and links to sources of information on this innovation.

NB: Use video or images where necessary Report: Provide a report, in accordance with the module guide, that explains and examines the development of key construction details and production process for building work-based packages. The report must clearly articulate the logic of the detailed decisions whilst highlighting those aspects of design and production that need particular attention. In other words, where required, the reasons and thinking that led to the decisions must be provided and supported by value analysis for your work package. You need to demonstrate the innovation in your choices and the life cycle implications of your work package. Your report should include the following:

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- An introduction that includes the aim of the report and which summarizes how your work-based package links into the overall technological strategy of your group. An outline of the whole building and your work package’s construction details, and an overview of the innovation (technology/product) should be provided and based on research.

- An outline of the main considerations (problems and opportunities) and their potential impact that were uppermost in your mind when deciding on the solutions.

- A list of performance standards to be achieved by the technology and quantified where possible. Outline any assumptions and life cycle uncertainties that influenced your decisions on performance standards to be specified.

- Sketches, annotated and dimensioned, that convey the construction of the work package. The drawings must be well selected possibly showing the solution to an interesting design problem or what happens at the interface with another work-package.

- An explanation of the production process that provides precise details on how to build your work package(s). You will need to explain the process from delivery of materials and components through to their transportation into final position. Details on the build sequence of activities, the use of any temporary works, resources (main plant and human requirements), access and storage requirements, significant hazards and safety measures, direction of working are to be provided.

- You need to provide a site layout and logistics plan related to your work

package.

- A reflection on the value analysis outcome (QFD or SMART analysis) for your work package. In addition, you should indicate why your decision addresses some of the current challenges facing the Construction Industry.

- Demonstrate an awareness of the limitations of proposition by identifying any risks, potential conflicts with other work-package solutions and those technology aspects that have not completely fulfilled the client’s requirements.

- For cladding, net present value analysis of and whole life cost considerations should be given.

- Your basis and assumptions, clarifying your thinking, should be provided

clearly.

NB: Decisions based on realistic cost estimates will be beneficial to your assignment. If cost estimates are provided, please briefly outline how this figure was calculated. Comment on the certainty or otherwise of your calculations.

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Important Notes:

Your individual work package that you have selected to develop must be approved by the module leader before writing the report. The report must avoid being over descriptive in content; it should clearly explain, analyse and adopt a critical approach that shows you have thoroughly examined all the considerations. The report must reflect the reading and research during your investigation and as well as individual research presentations from other students during lectures. Textbooks, research papers and articles from journals must be referred to in the main body of the report by using the UWE Harvard System to show that your research has been thorough and substantial. The report must be word-processed and in professional report format. Marks will be lost for unbound reports and/or unprofessional presentation.

Submission of Report: 3 May 2019 (Sunday), 2359hrs

Please submit WORD and PDF report and Safe Assign PDF similarity report

Construction Management Team’s Presentation - A Critical Reflection on the

Overall Technological Strategy and Production Process

Lastly in the project, you need to reflect on your experiences in the module by presenting a group 20 minute PPTX presentation that reflects on the team’s strategy and details about the production process for the entire project. The logic of your production decision making is the critical part of the review; you should therefore not focus in detail on the construction product itself in this presentation. Your focus should be the production/construction process for the work package and a justification of the key criteria in your value analysis. First, your team will need to briefly outline overall technology strategy, with the aid of the value analysis for each work package.

Next, the production process to build the construction is then to be fully explained with the help of diagrams; this will be the main focus of the presentation. The logistics required for erecting work packages on site must be explained. You will need to explain in detail the process from site delivery of materials and components through to their transportation into final position. Likewise, comment on an outline team’s works packages programme.

Finally, critically reflect by explaining any recommendations on production decision changes you would make from the benefit of hindsight.

Important Notes:

A summary of your value analysis, WLC and workshop solutions during the semester;

attendance register for each workshop; supporting documentation and hard copies of

slides used in the power point presentation must be submitted to the assessment

panel in a professionally presented folder, at the start of the talk.

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You will also sign an ‘Allocation of Marks Form’ and submit to the assessment panel.

TIMETABLE FOR PART TWO(2)

Week Lectures Tutorial Activities Remarks

4 Introduction to Assignment Part 2. Project complexity and strategic decisions.

Workshop 1 – key project information

4 Complex project management Strategic decisions- technology choice

5 Complex project management Strategic decisions- technology choice

5 Whole life Costing Tutorial – application of discounted cash flow for decision making

6 Value analysis QFD & SMART techniques

Tutorial – application of value analysis for construction decision making

6 Technological innovation – foundations, frame, floors

Workshop 2 – innovation evaluation

7 Technological innovation – external envelope

Workshop 3 – innovation evaluation

8 Communication of the production process – case study

Tutorial – communication of production process

9 Summary of the technology strategy. Formative feedback

Revision and Feedback

10 Group Presentations

Assessment Period

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ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

INDIVIDUAL REPORT (2500 words and maximum 10 pages appendices)

The report is assessing learning outcomes as stated in Appendix A of the Module Guide.

The key criteria identified from the brief are: developing clear solutions based on

value analysis, examining key information, identifying problems and opportunities,

making and explaining sensible decisions, correct emphasis on key points and the

right criteria for selecting technologies, evidence of research and references,

coherent report with clear communication.

The report will be marked on the following

scale: 76 +

Distinctive piece of work, highly thoughtful, thorough understanding. High standard of value analysis. Ideas developed are well thought out. Substantial referenced information used. Implications of potential problems/opportunities are fully appreciated. Sensible and practical decisions specific to the building and site are made. Limitations of decisions made are fully appreciated. Innovation decision is based on sound value analysis. Exceptionally well written and presented, with an organised structure.

65-75

Thorough understanding is shown in the development of solutions. Most of the consequences of main problems/opportunities are addressed. Considerable degree of value analysis is shown. Demonstrate understanding of the complexities involved. Decisions are well explained / examined with awareness of limitations, relevant to building and site conditions. Communication is clear and report has a well organised structure. Content has been well researched and referenced.

55-64

Mainly a good understanding of the solutions shown, but not all the implications have been realised. Development of decisions demonstrates a satisfactory degree of value analysis. Decisions made are sensible, in context with the building and site, but not fully explained or examined. Good standard of communication. The content is supported by referenced information.

45-54

Satisfactory understanding of most aspects of the choices of solutions but text shows a limited depth of insight in some of the main points. Level of value

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analysis is becoming limited. There is too much descriptive information. The ideas are not fully developed. Evidence of reading but alternative ideas not fully appraised, little awareness of limitations. Decisions made are not entirely appropriate to site conditions and the building. Examination of innovation indicates that a lack of use of appropriate criteria for value analysis. Communication is satisfactory; references are indicated.

40 - 44

Demands of the building and site are not fully appreciated. Limited analysis and development of specific solutions, problems/opportunities not fully appreciated. Largely descriptive material has been used. Lack of alternative ideas considered. Ideas show a weakness in the development of the decision making process. Solutions are not specific enough to building and site conditions, logic is poor. Examination of innovation is superficial. Communication is satisfactory, some references are used.

Fail

Little or no analysis is shown to develop appropriate solutions, descriptive material. Ideas are too general, little relationship to building and site conditions, decisions made are flawed. Decisions made show little logic. Examination of innovation is limited. Poor communication, no references used. A report format has not been adopted.

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CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT TEAM PRESENTATION

A Critical Reflection on Overall Strategy and Production Process

The key criteria are as follows:

A realistic production process is fully explained, critical reflection on the production

process is thorough with sensible recommendations for modifying proposals,

summary of group working sessions, workshop output and value analysis, and clear

communication and teamwork.

The report will be marked on the following

scale: 76+

Distinctive presentation, highly thoughtful, critical and reflective from the benefit of hindsight. Decisions on production process are realistic and fully explained with emphasis on critical points. Limitations of production solutions are understood. Alternative recommendations and modifications are well argued, an open-minded approach has been adopted. Very good communication and teamwork skills are demonstrated; excellently prepared supporting documentation.

65-75

Very good presentation that demonstrates a considerable degree of critical reflection using relevant criteria. Most key production process decisions are sensible and well explained. The success or not of decisions made and their outcomes is well debated; limitations of decisions are fully exposed. Sensible recommendations for improvements are proposed. Communication is clear, the talk is well structured, demonstrating efficient teamwork, Very well prepared supporting documentation .

55-64

The presentation indicates mainly a good understanding of the project. Some key production process decisions are not explained. The critical reflection is superficial in places. Limitations of some doubtful decisions made are not always recognised or are only partly exposed. The talk is partly bias. Some recommendations are made to improve the production process proposals. A good standard of communication and teamwork is displayed, Well prepared supporting documentation.

45-54

The content on the production process is becoming descriptive with only some emphasis on key points. There is evidence of unrealistic production decisions being made. The level of critical reflection is becoming limited. Some of the presentation tends to only justify the actions and decisions by the team without being sufficiently critical. Few recommendations from original proposals are made. Communication

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and teamwork are satisfactory, supporting documentation satisfactory.

40-44 The presentation is largely descriptive and only attempts to critically reflect on a few production decisions. There are poor ideas on the production process. The process of reflection lacks depth of understanding. Too much of the talk merely describes the decisions made without explanation and making further recommendations. Communication and teamwork are satisfactory. Supporting documentation satisfactory.

Fail

The level of explanation is very limited. Little or no analysis is shown in the critical reflection; the process of review is flawed. Poor decisions previously made remain without further scrutiny showing little thought. Poor communication and/or no teamwork is shown. Poor prepared supporting documents folder.

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ASSESSMENT WEIGHTAGES

Module Assessment Weighting (Parts 1 and 2)

Part 1 Individual 40%

(coursework)

Part 2

Individual 40% 10% (technology research presentations) 30% (coursework)

Group

20%*

10% (workshop solutions [value analysis and overall strategy summary]) 10% (Production process details in presentation)

*Marks may be subject to the marks re-allocation between team members.

WORKSHOP (Tutorial) SESSIONS

Workshop 1

Primary aim: To familiarise yourself with the project by identifying critical information

and main considerations that have an influence on project objectives and

technological strategy.

Note: This exercise will help in defining selection criteria for value analysis in Workshops 2- 3.

Workshops 2 - 3

Primary aim: To examine at least four alternative technological solutions for each work package with the aid of a value analysis technique (i.e. Choose QFD or SMART technique). Additionally a Whole Life Costing and discounted cash flow will be used for external envelope.

Note: Each group will require at least one laptop computer to facilitate internet

research and use of spreadsheets to support value analysis during the workshops.

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