PPMP20009 Leading Lean Projects: Dream Home Construction Project

This project management assignment details a student's plan to construct a dream home in Perth, Western Australia, adhering to lean construction principles. The project utilizes the PRINCE2 methodology, emphasizing efficiency and waste reduction. The report outlines the selection of Burswood as the ideal suburb, considering its proximity to the city and river, accessibility to public transport, and suitability for the client's lifestyle. It then addresses land size determination based on design requirements and budget, followed by the selection of Q Design & Construct as the builder, highlighting their experience and reputation. Stakeholders are identified, including the builder, client, government, landowner, and Keystart. Finally, the assignment explores factors influencing the design, such as topography, budget, and sustainability, providing a comprehensive overview of the project's key aspects and demonstrating a practical application of lean project management within the construction context.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Construction project
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Chosen project management process.........................................................................................2
Reason for choosing the suburb.............................................................................................3
Decision for the land size.......................................................................................................4
Plan for choosing builder.......................................................................................................4
Identification of stakeholders.................................................................................................6
Factors for influencing the design..............................................................................................7
The project management processes of PRINCE2......................................................................8
Lean best practices or lean project management......................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................13

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Chosen project management process
The main purpose of this paper is to present to construct a dream home under lean
construction. The lean construction refers as a way that is used to design the construction
systems which constitutes the minimum amount of wastage of materials, time as well as
effort and the maximize amount of productivity (Albliwi et al., 2014). The following
construction will conduct in Perth that locates in Western Australia. In the paper, it represents
that proper suburb, potential builder as well as following stakeholders to construct this dream
home.
According to Fewings & Henjewele, (2019), among several project management
processes, PRINCE2 is the best method for the project management in the field of
construction. Because, this project management process contains few steps that are helpful
for implementing the construction project. The following aspects on which the construction
project mainly focuses are as scope, timescale, risk factors, quality, benefits as well as cost.
This method is used because due to this method, the overall project is divided into smaller
sections so that they can be handled and managed easily.
In this context, the following method is chosen because of some benefits. Among the
other project management techniques, PRINCE2 is the best technique for the construction
industry (Gao, & Low, 2014). The following construction project is to be successful if it
follows the practices of PRINCE2. As discussed earlier, it undergoes the lean construction
which means to reduce the wastage of resources and for that it needs to take the optimal
amount of resources. At the initial time, it is noted that the project must be feasible as per all
the factors such as budget as well as time and this approaches helps to start the project in an
efficient way. There must has a clear plan from the initial point to ending point so that the
project runs smoothly in its way (Harrison & Lock, 2017). It needs to control all the project

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elements for this construction project. To run a successful project, it is the common factor to
communicate with all the levels of stakeholders. With the help of this technique, the cost can
be minimized that results a lots of efficiency in this construction project.
Reason for choosing the suburb
Here for the construction of dream house, the best project management approach
PRINCE2 will apply and depending upon the factors of this approach and also the
requirement of the client, the best suburb is Burswood in which the dream house will
construct and if the construction will happen, then it will cover all the factors and also it will
be beneficial for the client. Because the place is located on the banks of Swan River and also
near to the CBD (Hooper, Giles-Corti & Knuiman, 2014). The place is also near to the city
centre. Not only these reasons are enough for selecting this place for the dream project but
also there are another reasons that area also affecting for the selection of this suburb.
 According to the geographical view, it is the closest position from Swan River that
means the suburb is positioned on the river banks and for that, there are a lot of cafes
as well as restaurants for spending a lots of time.
 As because it is the central point of many industries so people prefer this places for
surviving the security based lifestyle.
 As discussion earlier, this place is on river banks and many people select this location
for fulfilling their dream living with a fantastic water view.
In the following PRINCE2 approach, if the dream project will happen in Burswood, then
the project will finish at the proper time because, from this location the public transport are
easily accessible and for this reason every day the workers will easily come in their
construction working. Also, in the case of suppliers they will have not faced any problems for
carrying the raw materials. As a result, the efficiency of the project will increase by

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decreasing the time as well as effort. So, Burswood will consider as the best location for the
dream home.
Decision for the land size
The land selection is the primary step for any type of construction. With the selection
of the land location, the land size is another point for this purpose. The land size is chosen
depending on the factors that are used to make a dream home of the client (Hughes, Dwivedi
& Rana, 2017). As per the client, the dream house emphasises four numbers of bedroom, a
large living room, a medium sized swimming pool, a garden and a parking zone. All of
factors of such spacious layout of dream home provides a designer touch. On the other hand,
the land value depends on such structural attributes as well as land rates and land location
(Jamali & Oveisi, 2016). According to the design, the required space for bedrooms is 1200-
1500sqfts, for living room 600-700sqfts, for swimming pool 800-1000sqfts, for making of
garden 1000-1200sqfts, for parking zone 1200-1500sqfts and an additional land 3000sqfts.
So, depending on the designing the home, the overall land will require 6000-7000sqfts. As
per the context, a deposit should be paid AUD$2000 for signing the land contract with the
land developer. For the overall home, the total budget will estimate at AUD$920,000.
Plan for choosing builder
For the completion of dream home, the selection of a potential builder is the second
step. There are different types of factors that are depended to choose a potential builders such
as their experience, ability to make the completion of project as well as their availability of
expertise in the construction firm. There are several factors for choosing the potential builder
that is necessary for the execution of dream home (Karaman & Kurt, 2015). The factors are
as given below:

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 Affordable to build – Before setting up all things for the construction of dream
home, it must get an approval for mortgage to the mortgage lender. Because it helps
to get a clear idea of budgeting to the builders as well as realtors.
 Identification of needs of dream project – It needs to identify all the needs that are
implemented in the dream home and for the potential builder it will easy to
understand about the proper needs what he will make.
 Provide all information clear to the builder – It is always cleared to state all the
needs of dream home to the builder because the builder always should has a clear idea
of the dream project what the client requires. Otherwise, for the builder, it is not
possible to provide the exact service to the client.
 Looking for experience – Before choosing the potential builder it is a necessary step
to look the proper information of the builder (Laporte, & Chevalier, 2016). In what
company belongs the builder, how much his experience, how much ability of
professionalism exist in the builder etc. all these questions with proper answer are
known to the client.
 Licensing as well as insurance – It must know about the license as well as insurance
that are provided by the builder (Mann, 2017). Before choosing the potential builder,
it is the responsibility to check having licensing as well as insurance in the builder in
the incident of loss as well as accident related to the construction or employees.
 Warranties – Before handing the construction work to the builders, always make
queries to the builders about the warranties which should be written by the builder
company if there will occur any problem related to settlement or repair.
 Having a talk with experts – Lenders, agents of real estate, building material
suppliers as well as builders association all are provided the clear idea about choosing
the potential builder in the area in which the client wants to make his dream home.

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According to these factors, Q Design & Construct will choose for this particular project.
Because, this builder is the specialist of national construction and has the experience of 60+
years. The builder has been awarded for five projects with five number of green star rating. It
is the most reputable company in Burswood.
Identification of stakeholders
The stakeholder refers to a person by whom the responsibility of making a
construction project is to be provided (Martínez-Jurado, & Moyano-Fuentes, 2014). The
stakeholder play an important role in the construction project because they are related to the
project outcomes. Different types of stakeholders contain in the construction project. The
stakeholders are categorised into two sections such as internal as well as external.
Internal stakeholders – Internal stakeholders may be defined as the persons who are related
to the project such as team members or internally related to the project.
External stakeholders – External stakeholders may be defined as the persons who are
externally related to the project or those kind of people who are affected due to the project.
In this context that means to construct the dream home, the following stakeholders are
as Builder, Client, Government, Land owner, Key starts.
Builder – Here, to construct this dream home, the builder play as a stakeholders because he is
the core part of the building construction. Without the builder, the building cannot construct.
The builder, Q Design & Construct behaves as a coordinator in the constriction project. The
builder is the internal stakeholders.
Client – Client is also a stakeholder in this project. Because as per his requirement, the
overall dream home will make. So, the client has the responsibility to clarify all the factors
related to the dream home to all the stakeholders so that they can understand better for the
construction of dream home. The client is the external stakeholder.

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Government Authority – The government authority treats as a stakeholder in the
construction project because the permission is approved by this authority for the completion
of the project. They plays an external stakeholder in the construction project.
Land owner – The land owner has the responsibility of checking all the legal procedures
while selling to the client. He has checked in this project so that the land selling process will
get the proper legal approval to the client and he also concerns so that in future, the client will
not face any land dispute problem. The land owner is the external stakeholder.
Key starts – The Key starts is the state government institute in Western Australia which
helps to provide home loans for the eligible people. Depending on the needs of dream home
done by the builder, Key start provides permission for the appropriate finance for this
construction. It is also external stakeholder.
Factors for influencing the design
There are various kinds of factors that can impact the designing process. The design
related process may be influenced by the needs as well as requirements of the clients, the
availability of finances, the required timescale of the construction project as well as any kind
of designing changes etc. (Sears et al., 2015). The factors that are influenced the designing
process such as topography, budget, design changes, sustainability etc.
Topography – topography is the important factor that influence the layout of the dream
home. Topography relates to the land topography that affects in the designing process. Before
starting the construction process of the dream home, it must be checked the land whether it is
flood plain or not (Siegelaub, 2017). The water tables are acquired for seeing the depth of
water in the soil. Another factor must be soil quality which effects the designing process of
the dream home.

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Budget – The budget plays as an important factor that influence the designing as well as
layout processes of the construction project. The amount of budget emphasises how big the
project will build and about the materials that are used in this project and also the land. The
proper quotations are made before starting the process, because it provides an idea to the
client about the amount of the money (Sohi et al., 2016). The quotations should has the
information related to any previous project that had almost the equal design as well as equal
budget. If the cost of designing processes will be more from the expected budget, then it
needs to change the designing process or the expensive materials.
Design changes – The changes of designing process affects in the layout of the project. If the
customer wants to change any part of the construction project that will results an additional
cost with huge amount of money that will effect in the overall designing process. This
changes may take a longer time and also involve the hiring process of additional workers or
refusing few workers depending the size of changing the design process.
Sustainability – The sustainability is one of the important factors that also influence the
designing process of the dream project (Tauriainen et al., 2016). The factor arrives when it
can be seen that the project is not environment friendly or the construction building is not
long lasting then it needs to change the designing process for increasing the lifespan of the
building. It takes the additional cost of money. Otherwise, the customer will face the
problems related to repair in future. At this case, the changing in designing process not only
the additional cost but also it takes a lot of time.
The project management processes of PRINCE2
The full form of PRINCE2 is ‘Project in a Controlled Environment’. It is one of the
important project management processes related to the construction industry. This process
represents the overall factors of the project including the size, nature as well as purpose of the

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project (Tenera, & Luís Carneiro, 2014). It emphasises the actual amount of resources,
control of project elements as well as communication with all levels of workers. This project
management method utilizes the minimum amount of cost as well as time, effort to provide
the maximum level of efficiency.
According to Timans et al., (2016), the PRINCE2 consists of seven principles that are
given as follows:
Starting of project – It is the initial step in the PRINCE2 method. It is one kind of pre-
project process that means three different works are done here. First of all, it should ensure
about the availability of all information that are required for project management team related
to this construction project. Secondly, it needs to design as well as appoint a project
management team for this particular construction project. Thirdly, it needs to create a project
initiation plan.
Initiation of project – It is the seconds step in this method of PRINCE2. It needs a proper
justification for this construction project. It needs to establish a steady management for the
construction process. Proper documentation as well as confirmation of a suitable business
case that relates to this construction project. This step ensures the accepted foundation for this
project. Also, this process consists of an agreement related to the assurance of resources for
completion of the first phase of the project. This phase provides a guideline of decision
making that is needed during the project.
Direction of project – This is the third step of the method of PRINCE2. The project board is
responsible for this step (Tomanek & Juricek, 2015). The management as well as monitoring
process of this project are controlled by the project board with the help of such reports and
also controls all the decision making points.

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Management of state boundaries – This step is the fourth stage in PRINCE2. This step
gives the project board with all decision making points for the continuation of this project.
Control of stages – This is the fifth step in PRINCE2. The deliverables of this step are the
monitoring as well as controlling of various project activities by the project manager. This
step is the core of the efforts of the poei9jewct manger because in this step, all the activities
related to the project are done.
Management of product delivery – This step is the sixth step in the PRINCE2. The main
objective of this step is to ensure about the production that are delivered in a correct way
related to this construction project.
Closure of project – It is the last step in PRICE2. The major purpose of this step is on the
execution of this construction project. In this step, the overall work of the project manager is
evaluated.
Lean best practices or lean project management
In the lean project management, there are five principles enlisted in this project
management. They are:
Specification of value – It is the first step in which it is clearly describe about the
specification of the value of products as well as services (Turner, 2016). In this case project,
the land price, the construction costing must be known to the client so that he can capable of
creating this project.
Identification of value stream – The value stream provides the mapping in which all the
actions that are in relation to the starting point of project to the ending point of the project. It
is the path from the bringing the raw materials for the project to the delivery to the customers
hand. In the case project, according to the lean practice, the overall mapping includes the

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selection of suburb, builder, stakeholders and also the process in which the dream home will
construct.
Making of value flow for elimination of waste – After the identification of value as well as
value stream, this step introduces the elimination of scrap, backflows as well as reworks or
interruptions etc. In this project, it needs to check that the strategies of this project are taken
in a correct way so that the project will has no interruptions or rewires. That’s why, the
potential builder has been chosen to avoid the reworks.
Pulling the customer to the flow – It is the fourth principle of lean management. In this step,
it provides the customer needs. In the case project, the builder must maintain the client’s need
and has a concern about the time in which the client require his dream home.
Improvement of perfection – The pursuit of perfection is the final step in lean management.
It provides the project improvement (Walker, 2015). The project cannot achieved the exact
perfection but try to get the project to the closer point of perfection. In this case, the builder
will try to fulfil the exact the needs of the client and makes the project with perfection.
Conclusion
In the conclusion part, it has been concluded that the overall project of constructing a
dream home is under the practices of lean project management. For the construction of dream
home, it requires to select the appropriate suburb so that the customer can handle all the
activities of his personal life and enjoy each time of his life. The place should has the peace
and the proposed location is near to the city centre and CBD also. If the customer can choose
the potential builder, then the dream home construction will be successful. All the factors that
affected in the designing as well as layout of this project are properly described in this paper.
This project follows the PRINCE2 project management process. In this way, the customer
will make his dream home in Perth in Western Australia.

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