Wednesday, July 29, 2009

#10 Payment voucher/cash flow


Text Chapter 11 Controlling Project Cost, Time and Quality; Construction Project Management by Gould and Joyce

Project Estimated Cost / Project Actual Cost Difference
-Subcontracts
-Materials
-Components
-Labor
-Site Conditions

Project Control and Monitoring / Feedback Loop
-Reports from field
-Schedule adjustments
-Ontime resource supply
-Task duration
-Communication/direction
-Anticipated/unanticipated items

-OSHA compliant site
-Trash and debris control

-Staging and handling materials and component delivery

-Quality control procedure


Excessive Project Control
-Understanding knowledge base of the workforce and subcontractors and learning curve.

Tracking tasks;
-Scheduled activities
-Duration
-Resources/shared resources
-Preceding and dependent tasks
-Direct task costs
-Indirect task costs

Cash Flow
-Scheduled payments to; suppliers, subcontractors, workforce...
-Overhead costs prorated to schedule payment periods
-Projected payment voucher receipts

Project Meetings
-Present; owner rep, architect/engineer, lender rep, agency rep, GC...
-Progress reporting, schedule revision, items of concern, anticipated progress.

Payment Voucher Project Meeting
-Items/tasks percentage complete for payment voucher meeting
-Documentation and submital requirements for task
-Meeting site walk through; is site organized, neat and undercontrol.



Assignment for Monday;
Prepare G703 for all 6 vouchers periods, include columns and totals for labor, materials, equipment, overhead, profit, total claimed to date each period and retainage.

Use excel to prepare a multi color line graph for items above; dollar vertical axis, time horizontal axis.

Include a few paragraphs below your graph and discuss your analysis of the information in the graphs


Coming next:
#11 Return to GC's Project Schedule - Lead Time - Submitals - Delivery
Assignment; for Wednesday; insert lead time; submital, order and delivery for light poles

#12 Project Schedule Cash flow predictions
Final assignment due Sunday August 9 not later than midnight;
Introduce a change order for wood light poles assume approved for voucher period #2
Revise schedule of values, MS Project Schedule and multi line graph,
Discuss how this change impacts the GC and the Owner.

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Construction Management 2

CM2 will focus on scheduling, quanitity take-off and construction cost estimating from the perspective of the General Contractor.

Scheduling using MS Project 2007;
Current editions of MS Office Professional edition contain MS Project 2007.
MS Project 2007 is also available on some computers in the A&D building, check with PhilaU OIT for access.

Quantity Take-Off;
We will be using full size drawing, for the take-off section including; cut and fill calculations, stormwater management and environmental remediation.

Construction Cost Estimating;
Information from the quantity take-off will be used for construction cost estimating using "National Construction Estimator 2007 from Craftsman"

Project Cash Flow;
Data from the cost estimating program with overhead and profit factors will be used with the Schedule to inform cash flow, line of credit, gross profit and net profit.

Review impact of project delay from; owner, arch/eng, GC, regulatory, weather, industrial action,....

Review impact of project change order on cash flow and overhead and profit.