Duplex Feasibility Study

This report focuses on the feasibility study and project timeline for a residential duplex development project, including constraints and goals. It also discusses the macro and micro environment business drivers that affect the project's success.

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Duplex Feasibility Study
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Project feasibility study and project timeline..................................................................................2
Constraints and goals.......................................................................................................................7
Macro environment business drivers...............................................................................................8
Micro environment business drivers................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The report is focused on Residential Duplex Development Project at 45
Glendon Street, Kingaroy, Australia. The project is focused on creating equity as well as income
due to construction of the building. The total time scheduled to complete the construction work is
9 months with an estimated budget of $800,000. The report is reflected on the project feasibility
study and project timeline for the development project with discussing on the constraints and
goals. The plan is also discussing on the macro environment business drivers and micro
environment business drivers factors which are providing effect on the business success. This
particular report is discussed on project constraints and project goals so that there is process
success.
Project feasibility study and project timeline
The feasibility study is determining viability of the ideas such as making sure that the
project is both legally as well as technically feasible and economically feasible. Feasibility study
is offered with background of the project, description of the product, details of business
operations and marketing research of the development work. Following are areas of feasibility
study which is determined for the Residential Duplex Development Project such as:
Technical feasibility: This assessment is focused on the technical materials and
equipments required to develop the building work. It helps to determine if the technical resources
are able to meet with business capacity (Meredith, Mantel and Shafer 2017). The study is based
on evaluating technical needs of the development project.

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Economic feasibility: This assessment is involved with cost and benefits analysis of the
project work; determined viability of the project cost associated with the project before
allocation of financial resources. It enhanced project credibility and helped in decision making to
determine positive economical benefits of the project (Fleming and Koppelman 2016). The
estimated budget for the project work is $800,000. The fees included in the economic factors are
monthly agent fees, development planning fees, monthly council fees, land price and conveyance
fees focused on completion of residential duplex development project.
Legal feasibility: The project assessment is investigated with whether the aspect of
project is conflicted with the legal needs such as data protection act. The construction
organization constructs residential duplex in specific location (Heagney 2016). The feasibility
study is conducted to reveal of the ideal location of the business is not zoned with any type of
business.
Operational feasibility: The assessment is involved to undertake the project study for
analyzing and determining whether the organization is required to meet with the organizational
goals by completion of the entire work. The organizational feasibility study is examined how the
project plan can satisfy with building needs identified in requirements analysis for developing
the construction work (Kerzner 2018).
Scheduling feasibility: The assessment is required for the project success and the project
can fail if it is not completed in scheduled timeframe. Before starting of the project work, the
construction organization estimated that the project is completed in 9 months. If the construction
project is not completed on proposed scheduled time, then this development project is not
feasible (Girard and Girard 2015).

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Project Feasibility Study
1. Land Information 2. Purchase Information
Land Address: 45 Glendon Street Land Price: $145,890
Suburb/Town: Kingaroy, Australia Stamp Duty: $9,000
Land Size: 10,000 sq feet Conveyance Fees: $10,000
3. Local Council Information 4. Construction Information
Local Council Name: Australian Regional Council Builder Name: ADCO Construction

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Minimum Land Allotment Size: 10,000 sq feet Duplex Construction Costs: $579,000
Development Planning Fees: $90,000
Monthly Council Rates: $5,000
5. Duplex Information
Duplex Estimated Value: $800,000
Monthly Rental Income: $100,000
Monthly Agent Fees: $4,500
Monthly Landlord Insurance: $7,900

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6. Project Results
Equity Value = Duplex Value of $800000 less Total Outgoings of $833890 equals $-33890
Net Monthly Rental Income = Gross Monthly Rent of $100000 less Holding Costs of $17400 equals $82600
Project Timeline
Weeks
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Settlement Period on Land Purchase
Council Development Approval
Duplex Construction

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Constraints and goals
The project constraints are defined project limitations and scope along with limitation of
what the project plan is expected to achieve. The lists of the project constraints as well as goals
for the construction work listed as below:
Cost: The financial commitment of project is based on various variables such as
involvement of resources, materials to people included labor costs. The cost provided impact on
the project which is considered in completion of project work. Cost processes included cost
estimation for figuring the financial commitment for the project resources required to complete
the work. The cost budget is created with cost baseline (Novo et al. 2017). If there are no project
delays, there is increase in cost which leads to cost overrun.
Time: The project schedule is estimated with amount of time allocated to finish the
project and produce the project deliverables. Gantt chart is visualized project schedule where
each task points on the scheduled timeline (Binder 2016). Due to additional project resources,
there is increase into time causes project delays.
Scope: The project scope is dealing with project tasks required to complete the work.
While management of project scope, it is critical to prioritize the project activities enabled the
plan and allocate resources. It enabled the scope creep. It is a method to delegate the project
activities to right people and prevent scope creep (Silvius and Schipper 2015). When there are
sudden changes into the entire project plan, then the project manager is not able to achieve its
project goals.

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The main goal of this construction project is to complete the project work in approved
budget of $800,000 and timeline of 9 months. There is required to develop residential duplex
development project focused on feasibility study report in addition to project timeline. Both the
reports are required to develop to complete the project on scheduled time and estimated budget
plan.
Macro environment business drivers
The factors which are providing influence on the decision making related to construction
firm are related to development of residential complex project plan and the business
performance.
Economic: The economic factors are impacted production of the business organization as
well as decision making process of the customers. Mainly for the rental purpose, money is to be
made. Investment is made in the building work affect the purchasing power and spending
patterns of the development project. The factors which are affected the business are construction
materials and equipments (Walker 2015). There is also increasing in per capita income of
development project.
Competitive: The construction industry is facing higher competition as most of the
industries are constructed innovative infrastructure near Kingaroy area. Due to higher
competition in the Australian market, the firm is required to provide more innovative
infrastructure to their clients. The firm is required to offer innovative structure to the building in
addition to sustainable infrastructure to the project clients (Lock 2016). Therefore, the business
becomes competitive into the International market.

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Resources: The resources those are involved in construction project are project owners,
construction manager, contractors and consultants. When there is unavailability of the project
resources, it provides an effect on time completion date. If the human resources do not have
higher experience along with skills in construction work, then the project is not succeeding. The
project can get success when there is high interaction as well as engagement with the resources
involved in construction work (Demirkesen and Ozorhon 2017). Communication with the
stakeholders is required to interact with other members of the project team.
Demographic: The market segments are impacted by demographic factors such
construction market size, gender, age, market growth and others. People are main driving forces
involved in development project work. Sudden growth of people in population, demographic
changes as well as study on construction area people are the demographic factors in the
construction business (Banihashemi et al. 2017). It can lead to make changes into the market.
Micro environment business drivers
When the business is required to successful into the Australian construction marketplace,
it is required to understand the factors provide impact on development of construction business.
The construction industry should require determining positive as well as negative effects in and
out of the company. Following are the micro environmental business drivers provide effect on
the development project such as:
Technical/internal expertise: In order to get success into the construction project plan,
there is required to have skilled and experienced expertise to complete the work. In residential
duplex project work, the staffs should involve to manage work properly. Training and

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development is playing significant role to be competitive in the market as training program
provided to the staffs to train them in development work.
Time related pressure: The entire time required to finish the work is 9 months, therefore
the staffs are under high pressure to complete it on scheduled timeframe. Time management is
needed to drive the business and be competitive in the market. The construction staffs have lack
of project knowledge; therefore they are not able to meet with construction time (Tabassi et al.
2016). The development project is not succeeding as they are not completed on scheduled
timeline.
Suppliers: The supply inputs such as money, construction raw materials and production
factors are helping in smooth conduct of construction business. The firms are remained aware of
supplier’s policies as there is increase into price of inputs will affect both sales and profits.
Shortage of the supplier will affect the construction schedule (Takey and de Carvalho 2015). The
construction firm should contain two or more suppliers such that change in organizational
policies can affect the schedule of production.
Customers: The customers are key significant segment of micro environment. The
construction business is existed to serve the customers. The customers of this development
project are households, government, foreign buyers and others. As the project development work
is based providing rental services to the customers, therefore they are the main priority of this
plan.
Competitors: The competitors are key significant part of micro environment. The
construction firm can compete to get huge share of Australian construction market. It is required
to watch policies of construction as well as adjust the policies to gain the customers (Lambrechts

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et al. 2019). There are various construction industry those are working in similar field are the
competitors of the construction industry those are involved in residential complex development
project. In addition to this, the construction industry is required to be innovative in the market as
well as technical requirements.
Marketing intermediaries: The marketers should link with the advertising and marketing
business to encourage, advertise as well as hand out the products to the final customers. The
firms should require maintaining good relations for carrying out the marketing activities. The
marketing factors are controlled by the business firm and operated in larger macro environment
beyond control (Ha and Tran 2018). The advertising firms are required to reach their
construction requirements to the customers. Through marketing of the building work, it can
provide profit from the construction work.
Conclusion
From the entire report, it is summarized that the feasibility study in the construction
project carried out to determine technical, economic, operational, scheduling and legal feasibility
studies. It is considered as assessment to propose the project work. In this project, two main
criteria are considered to judge feasibility of the development project such as cost needed as well
as attained of business values. The project timeline will help the project manager to complete
work on scheduled timeframe by maintaining quality of the raw materials. Both macro and micro
environmental factors are taken into considerations which are provided effect on project success.
When it is difficult for the business to handle all the factors, then those identified factors are
becoming uncontrollable. The businesses internal in addition to external factors provide stronger

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effect on development project, therefore it is critical to complete on time. The project manager is
playing a key role to handle both the environmental factors provide effect on project completion.

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