Project Management in a Classification of Buildings

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Description of the project:...............................................................................................................3
Classification of the buildings:........................................................................................................4
Group A: Residential Buildings...................................................................................................4
Group B: Educational Buildings..................................................................................................4
Group C: Institutional Buildings.................................................................................................5
Group D: Assembly Buildings.....................................................................................................5
Group E: Business Buildings.......................................................................................................5
Group F: Mercantile Buildings....................................................................................................6
Group G: Industrial Buildings.....................................................................................................6
Group H: Storage Buildings:.......................................................................................................6
Group I: Hazardous Buildings.....................................................................................................6
Major demands of the project:.........................................................................................................7
Appropriate selection of the plot and Study:...................................................................................7
Surveys of the sites of be desired building:.....................................................................................9
The building buy laws and regulations:...........................................................................................9
Arrangement of the rooms in the residential buildings:................................................................10
Orientation of the buildings inside the Project:.............................................................................12
Orientation:....................................................................................................................................12

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Representation of the process thinking:.........................................................................................15
Risk analysis:.................................................................................................................................16
The chosen method in range of identification risks in the project:................................................20
Identification of the risks:..........................................................................................................20
Usage of the Risk Matrix in the risk Register............................................................................21
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................25
References:....................................................................................................................................27

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Introduction:
Some of the basic needs of human existence includes the shelter, clothing and foods.
From the early days of man they have been associated with making attempts for the purpose of
making improvements in the standards related to living. The major point of the efforts made by
mankind has been associated with providing a shelter which would be economic along with
being efficient. The possessions of the shelter along with being basic, used, is also associated
with providing the feeling of security, responsibility and showing social status of the man
(Yazdani et al. 2019). There always exists an inherent liking by each human being related to a
peaceful environment which is needed for having a peaceful environment and this objective is
generally achieved by means of having a place to live which is situated in a safe and convenient
location and this type of place is need for having a comfortable and pleasant living which
generally required to be considered and kept in view as well.
Some of the most important factor that need to be considered includes the following:
• An environment which would be Peaceful in nature.
• Safety against any kind of natural calamities or adverse climate conditions
• General facilities.
Description of the project:
The engineer who would be assigned for this project needs to keep in his mind about
various things like the municipal conditions, the building buy laws, the environmental conditions
the financial capacity, the arrangement of sewers, supply of drinking water, future provision,
aeration and ventilation and many more before initiating the project (Alavipour and Arditi 2018).

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This report would be discussing about the build an iconic residential building as a development
of the Government leased land which is located in Bambalapitiya, Colombo city. An extensive
project planning would be done along with process mapping and pre-construction work so as to
make sure that the entire project is being executed in a smooth manner.
Classification of the buildings:
The mixed-use construction would be associated with the creation of the all-inclusive
community experience within just a couple of blocks. This would be consisting of multi-housing
construction along with parking structures, buildings designed for official use, as well as retail
stores. All this would be requiring an array of construction techniques as well as methods. The
complex nature of this type of well-planned development is associated with making this sector as
one of the most challenging sector (Islam et al. 2015). Besides this there is also a need of
constant communication along with a consistent quality control as well as an impeccable
standards. The different group of buildings included in the mixed development project has been
listed below:
Group A: Residential Buildings
This section of the project would be including all the buildings where the sleeping
accommodation would be provided for a normal residential purpose and might or might not be
consisting of cooking facilities (Li et al. 2016). This section would be including single or
multiple family dwellings, rooming houses or lodgings, apartment houses, restaurants, hostels,
residential hostels and dormitories

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Group B: Educational Buildings
This section of the project would mainly be dealing with the construction of various
buildings that would be used for purposes like schools, colleges or for day-care purposes and
would be involving the assembly so as to provide instruction, educational and the recreational
buildings which are generally not included in the assembly buildings.
Group C: Institutional Buildings
This section of the project would be mainly responsible for the designing and
construction of those buildings which would be used for different purposes like for providing
medical or any other type of treatment of providing care for person who would be suffering from
physical and mental illness, diseases or infirmity, infant care, convalescents or for aged persons
detentions where the liberty that is provided to the inmates would be restricted (Sha'ar et al.
2017). Institutional buildings would ordinarily be associated with providing sleeping.
Group D: Assembly Buildings
In this of the project those buildings would be planned and constructed which would be
used by group of peoples so as to meet or gather for the purpose of amusement or recreation or
for social or religious gatherings and would be mainly consisting of the assembly halls, city
halls, marriage halls, museums or places of worship and many more.
Group E: Business Buildings
This section of the project would be associated with the creation of the buildings which
would be mainly be used for various business transactions and would also be used for the
purpose of keeping the accounts as well as the records and all other similar purpose (Guo and
Yiu 2015). This would be mainly consisting of banks professional establishments, offices, court

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houses, libraries and many more. The principle function which would be played by these
buildings would be including the transactions of the public businesses and keeping of the books
as well as records.
Group F: Mercantile Buildings
This section of the project is aimed at the construction and designing of those buildings
which would be used as shops or stores or market in order to display and sale various kind of
merchandise either in wholesale or as retail (Oyeyipo et al. 2016). This would be also be
including the offices, shops, storage service facilities that are incidental to the sale of
merchandise and are located in the same building.
Group G: Industrial Buildings
This section would mainly be dealing with the construction of those buildings which are
generally used and would primarily be used for the purpose of storing or providing shelter for the
goods, wares and merchandise, vehicles and animals such as the warehouse or cold storage or
garage.
Group H: Storage Buildings:
In this section of the project the buildings which would primarily use by the inhabitants
for the storage or for sheltering the goods would be constructed.
Group I: Hazardous Buildings
This would be mainly consisting of those buildings which would be used for storing as
well as for handling, manufacturing and processing of the materials which are highly explosive
and combustible and are having the liability of getting burnt at an extreme rate. This materials

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might also be associated with production of highly poisonous elements for the storage handling
(Almahmoud and Doloi 2015).
Major demands of the project:
The house that is to be built would be acting as the societies first unit and the primary
unit of this would be including the human habitation. The house which would be built would be
aimed at granting protection against the various climatic conditions like the wind, changing
weathers and for providing insurance against the various physical insecurities (Senouci and
Mubarak 2016). Some of the major features related to the demands includes its unique nature and
is dependent upon the following factors that are listed below:
 The cheap finance availability
 The skilled labors availability
 Good transport facilities availability
 The cost of the labors and the materials needed for construction
 Predicting the future demand
 The rate of interest upon the investments for example the low interest rate
associated with the facilitation of the long term payment which might be associated with
facilitating the investment in the housing (Williams 2016)
 The rate of growth in population along with the urbanization
 The supply of the plots which has been developed at prices which is seen to be
reasonable in nature
 The real estate taxation policy
 The planning of the town and the environmental conditions.