Project Management: Residential Building Construction in New South Wales, Australia

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Project: Residential Building construction Project in New South Wales, Australia
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Executive Summary
The paper mainly reflects on the construction of residential building in the area of New south
wales, Australia. The main aim of the project is to provide accommodation to the people who
generally moves from other areas of Australia for job as the area of New South Wales is
considered as one of the technology hubs. It is identified that the paper generally reviews
number of articles in order to collect information related with scheduling process, resource
management as well as communication. Moreover, proper communication plan for the
project is provided for the building construction. In addition to this, the screenshots for
network diagram as well as gnat chart is provided for showcasing the time and budget that is
necessary for the project.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
2. Scope of the project................................................................................................................3
3. Project schedule.....................................................................................................................5
3.1 Discussion on the project scheduling process..................................................................5
3.2 Sample screenshots of Gantt chart and Network diagram...............................................8
4. Resource plan.........................................................................................................................9
4.1 Discuss project resource management.............................................................................9
4.2 Steps for handling resource shortage and over allocation..............................................13
4.3 Key resources for the project.........................................................................................16
4.4 Screenshots for resource allocation................................................................................16
5. Communication plan............................................................................................................18
5.1 Project communication management.............................................................................18
5.2 Key stakeholders in the project......................................................................................20
5.3 Development of communication plan for the project....................................................20
6. Conclusion............................................................................................................................24
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................26

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1. Introduction
The paper mainly reflects on the residential building construction in New South
Wales, Australia. It is identified that in the present era of technology, New South Wales is
becoming a technology hub due to which number of people are generally coming there in
order to get a job. As the number of populations is generally rising in the area of New South
Wales, it is very much necessary for the government to provide permission for the
construction of the new residential buildings so that the employees can easily get
accommodation. The work that is associated with the construction of residential building will
generally be undertaken by the ABC consultancy which is one of the well-known
construction company of Australia. The work that is mainly undertaken by the ABC
consultancy in order to start with the work of construction mainly includes proper analysis of
the location, bidding, identifying proper suppliers as well as contractors.
The entire report contains information about the construction of residential building
in New South Wales, Australia. The report showcases project scope, schedule as well as
resource plan of the project. In addition to this, it is found that number of papers as well as
journal articles are generally reviewed in order to elaborate the scheduling process, resource
management as well as the importance of communication plan within the project.
Furthermore, proper communication plan is developed for the project for reflecting how the
project stakeholders generally communicate in order to complete the construction related
work that is mainly associated with the construction of residential building in New South
Wales, Australia
2. Scope of the project
It is stated by Banfield et al. (2014), that the project scope is mainly considered as a
part of project planning which generally involves determination as well as documentation of

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the specific lists of the project deliverables, goals, functions as well as costs that are mainly
associated with the project. It is very much significant to pin down the entire project scope
earlier in the lifecycle as it is found that the project scope can greatly impact the cost as well
as the schedule of the project. On the other hand, it is stated by Siami-Irdemoosa Dindarloo
and Sharifzadeh (2015) that the scope of the project is mainly defined by the work
breakdown structure which generally takes the scope statement and then subdivides the major
deliverables of the project into smaller as well as manageable packages of the project
activities. Moreover, it is found that the work breakdown structure that is mainly provided
below mainly helps in defining the scope for the construction of residential building in New
South Wales, Australia (Nam et al. 2016) It is mainly defined as one of the key project
deliverables that helps in organizing the work of the team into number of manageable
sections.
The WBS is generally utilized for reducing the complicated activities of the project to
different collection of project tasks and thus it is considered to be significant for the managers
of the project to efficiently finishing the complex project activities (Basten et al. 2018). In
addition to this, it is found that as the WBS of the project are measurable, the project
management generally takes the responsibility of assigning specific costs to each of the
project activities. The WBS generally helps the project managers in distributing the budget of
the project into defined packages which are generally linked with the tasks of the project for
making sure that the cost that is needed to executing each of the project activities generally
does not exceed the total costs of the project (Andersen 2014). The WBS of the project is
generally provided below:

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Figure 1: Work breakdown Structure
(Source: Created by Author)
3. Project schedule
3.1 Discussion on the project scheduling process
According to Hu et al. (2016), project scheduling is defined as one of the
mechanisms that helps in communicating the tasks that are required to be done and also helps
in reflecting on the organizational resources which are allocated for completing the project
tasks in the given timeframe. It is found that the schedule of the project is one of the
documents that helps in collecting the works that are generally needed to be done for
delivering the project on time. On the other hand, it is stated by Jalili and Ford (2016) that

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scheduling is one of the inexact procedures that helps in trying to predict the future of the
project. It is found that when it is not possible to know the certainty about the time that is
generally required by the project then it is very much necessary to utilize the project
scheduling techniques for getting proper idea about the project completion time.
It is identified that project time management generally includes two different
processes for scheduling and planning the tasks of the project as well as activities that are
generally required in order to finish the project on time (Wang et al. 2014). It is found that
project activities planning as well as scheduling is considered as one of the process group of
the project that helps in managing the project time. The steps which are generally required to
be followed for scheduling the project activities are generally listed below:
Setting up the project activities: It is found that in the first project step, the project
will be able to properly define the amount of work or actions which are generally needed to
be done for producing the project deliverables in a very much timely manner (Lei et al.
2016). It is identified that the input for this procedure is generally considered as the project
deliverable statement. In addition to this, it is found that the project manager generally
utilizes proper documents for defining the level activities that are generally utilized for
creating the schedule of the project. It is stated by Singh (2014) that the project manager must
also work on the development of the project activities that are helpful in simplifying the
project scheduling and planning.
Defining the relationship: In the next step of the project, the project manager needs
to make proper sequence of the project activities that are generally identified in the initial
step of the project. According to Joslin and Muller (2015), the manager will generally use the
lists of the project activities as well as milestone list for defining the relationship among the
various activities of the project. By using the PM software, it is needed to set up proper

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priorities for the activities of the project and for making the task sequences that are generally
sorted as well as organized by importance as well as urgency (Hornstein 2015). Additionally,
it is found that it is very much necessary to define the dependencies that exists between the
various activities of the project. It is found that the activities with internal dependencies
generally refers to any of the actions that are generally undertaken by the project team for
producing the deliverables within the present working conditions of the environment
(Todorovic et al. 2015). Furthermore, the activities with external dependencies generally
refers to non-project related factors that helps in defining the success of the project associated
activities. It is quite necessary to define both types of the activity dependencies and must be
added for sequencing as well as prioritizing the activity lists of the project (Too & Weaver
2014). After the relationships are defined, the project manager generally updates the
activities of the project by outlining the dependencies as well as linking them to the scope
statement of the project.
Estimating the project resources: In this specific project step, the project manager
generally takes the responsibility of reviewing the requirements of the stakeholders for
estimating the amount of resources that are generally needed for performing the activities of
the project quite effectively (Sanchez 2015). It is analyzed that both expert judgement as well
as alternative analysis method must be properly utilized for this purpose. In addition to this, it
is found that the constraint time of the project must be properly considered while estimating
the resources of the activities (De Carvalho et al. 2015). The project manager who works in
cooperation with the various experts as well as teams of the project must be able to produce
proper resource calendars and for defining the needed resources of the project. It is found that
once all the information as well as details are properly collected as well as analyzed then it
must be utilized for making proper decomposition for the activity resources of the project that
are generally categorized by types, time as well as project priorities (Conforto et al. 2014).