Construction Project: Essendon & Buckley Street Level Crossing Removal

This project management assignment analyzes the Essendon & Buckley Street level crossing removal project. It begins with an introduction to project management principles, including time, cost, scope, and quality. The project overview highlights the problem of traffic congestion caused by the level crossing and the Victorian government's initiative to remove it. The implementation overview focuses on removing the level crossing at Buckley Street to reduce congestion and improve safety. The project requirements, objectives, and scope are defined, including building a road underpass and removing the boom gates. Stakeholders are identified, and risk management strategies are discussed, covering government approvals, budget, resources, and design issues. The project team composition is outlined, and the importance of ministry and occupier approvals is emphasized. The conclusion highlights the benefits of the project for citizens. The assignment includes a work breakdown structure and a comprehensive bibliography of relevant project management resources.

Project
Management
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT: ESSENDON & BUCKLEY STREET
LEVEL CROSSING REMOVAL

Introduction
Project Management can be considered
as the application of the methods,
processes, skills and knowledge which
is aimed at achieving the objectives of
the project
Project management usually consist of
following points:
•Time
•Cost
•Scope
•Quality

About the Project
Essendon & Buckley Street level
crossing removal
Problem Encountered
 The main problem which is faced is
that the Boom gate of Buckley Street
is down for almost 78 minutes.
 Creates Frustration and congestion
for the vehicles.

About the Project (Cont.)
The main focus of the project was to
reduce the overall congestion which
was is very much hectic for the point of
view of the travellers. The main focus
was the reduction of the traffic which is
created in the point.
Victorian government took an important
step of removing the traffic congestion
by means of removing the level
crossing.

Implementation Overview
The main aim of the implementation
is to remove the level crossing at
Buckley Street.
The main Focus point of the removal
would be helping to remove
congestion and improve the safety.

Requirement of the Project
The requirement of the project mainly
involve the following points:
 Ability to enter the information of the
project.
 Tracking of the project.
 Reporting the project as defined by the
level crossing authority.

Project Objective
The main objective of the project are
the following:
 Removal of the level crossing at
Buckley Street, Essendon
 Reduction of traffic at boom Gate
 By means of minimizing
disruption improvement of the
traffic flow.

Project Objective (Cond)
Main advantage Achievement
 Reduce transport time
 Reduction of human
intervention
 Improvement of facility.

Scope of the Project
Definition
The scope of the project mainly consist of the documentation and
the determining a list of project deliverables, goals, task, features,
deadline and most majorly the cost of the project.
In simple words it can be stated as the things which has to be done
in a project to order to reach the factor of success.

Scope of the Project (Cont.)
In scope of the Project includes:
 Building a road underpass which would be helping to remove the
level crossing.
 Boom gate removal in order to reduce the overall congestion.
 To complete the entire project within the budget and time.

Scope of the Project (Cont.)
The out scope project mainly consist:
 The type of congestion removal after the underpass is created is
not taken into consideration.
 No information in detail is provided for the up gradation of the
exiting underpass is provided.

Work breakdown Structure