Comprehensive Report: Office Complex Design and Construction Project

This report provides a detailed analysis of the design and construction of an office complex, focusing on project formulation and business planning. It begins with an introduction to the project, highlighting the challenges and importance of selecting appropriate construction methodologies. The report then delves into a comprehensive summary of the project, emphasizing the significance of professional construction and its impact on economic sectors. It explores various methodologies, including Agile methodology, and analyzes the project's phases, such as requirement identification, planning, design, execution, tracking, monitoring, and closure. The report also addresses critical components like cost management, quality management, and stakeholder management. The report highlights the importance of considering factors such as comfortable ambiance, energy conservation, and waste reduction in the design. The report concludes by emphasizing the need for accurate project scheduling and the use of resources for successful project completion within the estimated time and budget.

Running head: PROJECT FORMULATION AND BUSINESS PLANNING
Part B
Project formulation and Business Planning: Design and construction of Office Complex for the
School of Environmental Design Technology
Name of the student:
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
1. Comprehensive summary on Design and construction of Office Complex for the School of
Environmental Design Technology.................................................................................................3
2. Methodology or methods of development used for the construction project..............................6
3. Methodology analysis................................................................................................................12
4. Result analysis...........................................................................................................................14
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................16
References......................................................................................................................................18

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Introduction
In terms of the economic facilities the strategic crucial necessity of either construction or
development of any buildings the total potential of investment are referred to as certain attributes
that may attract all industry operators under their project rays (Simatupang & Sridharan, 2016).
While constructing an office complex for the school of design and technology, the contractors,
subcontractors and the project managers may serious challenges or issues. This is mandatory for
the project manager to design and identify the most suitable constriction methodology for the
successful completion of the office complex. A comprehensive summary on the design and
construction of an office complex for the school of design and technology is illustrated in this
paper. In addition to this, the detail of the methodology that has been followed for the successful
accomplishment of the project is also illustrated in this paper. Not only but also after analyzing
the construction methodology the generated results also demonstrated in this paper.
During the design and development of the office building project different issues or
construction level challenges are identified initially. It is the role of the developer to consider
some critical components through which this sort of issues can be minimized. In addition to this,
the accurate project formulation principle including project plan, roles of the project managers
and the considered business planning framework for the design if this office building before are
also analyzed in this paper. Based upon the mission, vision and key success strategies of the
project it is found that, the members associated to the project are requires serving serious role
play for the project. After evaluating the necessary key assumption criteria the different aspects
that may negatively impact or interrupt the success of the office complex construction project are
also being illustrated in this paper. It is expected that if all the necessary assumptions are

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properly followed by the developers then the construction project related issues will be
completely mitigated.
1. Comprehensive summary on Design and construction of Office Complex for
the School of Environmental Design Technology
Professional construction or building facility always acts as a catalyst which just not
serves the role of an engine but also provides momentum for the rating of developments. This
engine also has the ability to energize all the economic sectors successfully. According to Presa
(2017), the business activities regardless of its type such as public or private are all housed in the
structure which is known as production activities, building, medical healthcare etc. Few numbers
of people cannot just operate effectively without the indirect and direct requirement for the
housing. The building production facility is referred to as a building construction or a
developmental approach which attract the professionals from each and every field of non
professionals. Not only this but also, the housing develop employment can cut across all the
categories for the human attempt.
According to Zhang et al., (2018) materials, marketing, distribution, supply, storage all
has strong and long term success chain such as impact on the economy that is known in
commerce. The rate of total production is somewhere dependent on the salary, buying, selling
approaches and also the internal relationship between the service providers and the consumers.
The contribution from the sponsors and the commercial support from the government will help
the team members to become more familiar to their allocated job roles and responsibilities. For
the estate valuer and surveyor, it is found that more than seventy percent of the activities
delivered by the professionals can revolve around the facilities associated to the buildings.

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According to Yeom et al., (2017) in order to encourage the investment mainly for facilitating the
buildings can be seen as a step towards correct direction of success in case of this specific
construction project. The design outline or the construction blueprint of the building is the initial
phase of development. From this phase the developers should identify all the necessary
components and critical success factors. However, many construction challenges are faced by the
contractors and the sub contractors.
Therefore, proper construction methodology should be adopted by the designer and the
developers to avoid project failure. Smith (2014), stated that the rate at which the project fails,
abandoned and even collapsed each and every associate concentrate on the engineers. Moreover,
it can be said that most of the project success, failure, abandonment are lies within the efficient
project management. The construction of any building is required to be successful because their
executions are always includes substantial investment or the loss that may generate through the
failure of the construction project. As the future scopes of the project are completely dependent
on roles played by the clients therefore, proper development of economic structure is very much
crucial from the development end.
For this specific construction project the main issue that is identified is overrunning cost
and over time allocation. As much time will increase that much cost will also increase
simultaneously (Simatupang & Sridharan, 2016). In order to avoid overrunning cist and budget
at the project initiation phase the project manager should have conducted a feasibility study to
ensure that the project is successful from the business end. In order to implement the
construction project, proper control over the project changes and economic standard should have
to be considered by the construction project head.

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During the design and implementation of any building the concept on which the
construction manager should have to concentrate on include comfortable as well as inviting
ambiance, conserve energy, conserved water, reduction of construction wastages etc. At the
initial phase the building site should be analyzed accurately. The project owner should check that
whether it can provide access to the public transportation, restore habitats, filter of the storm
water runoff. Again any new building should focus on maximizing the open space for the
employees who will work for the company, facilitating proper community connectivity, reducing
the pollution associated to lights. Again the constructors should also focus on either planting
native or adaptive landscape that never needs any kind of irrigation. Apart from this, volatile
organic compounds are to be used while designing the “Office Complex for the School of
Environmental Design Technology”.
During the time of construction the HVAC system should have to be utilized for
protecting the environment from moist a harmful dust. The sources of chemical exploitation and
other pollutants should be controlled by the designers to make sure that the construction work is
going accurately. From the landfills more than 50 percent to seventy percent of construction
wastes should be diverted. After the detail analysis of the approaches it has been found that the
designers and the construction heads are require to focus of energy efficiency also to make sure
that all the aspects of building construction are properly utilized by the project managers.
In this case the building is an “Office Complex for the School of Environmental Design
Technology” therefore different technology addition is another thing that has to be approached
for making it more employees focused and attractive at the same time. For the construction
project the resources that are used are comprises of money, labours, equipments, construction
materials etc. Proper project scheduling is another important thing on which the project manager

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should concentrate for the successful accomplishment of the construction work within estimated
time and budget.
2. Methodology or methods of development used for the construction project
Project management is referred to as a process that is used for achieving the project
objectives including the project schedule, budget as well as performance following a set of
project level activities. If these project management factors are properly followed and utilized by
the project team members and the project managers then the project will be able to be explore
and produce quantifiable as well as qualitifiable project deliverables. In other word the process
of project management methodology can also be defined as a set of application of different tools,
knowledge, skills as well as techniques better for meeting the project objectives or to exceed the
project requirements (Roy & Jacob, 2015). Again it can be said that with the accurate utilization
of the accurate project management methodology the overrunning cost over budget allocation
and over allocation of resource related issues can be completely minimized.
In order to manage any project the process of project management methodology should
always being used by the project team members universally (Simatupang & Sridharan, 2016).
For this construction project the methodology is used for designing a conceptual framework for
managing the programs and activities and a collection of different project development
guidelines, process and standards as well.
It is believed by the construction project managers that, project management
methodologies is a set of tools used for sharing and to communicate lessons that has been learned
and best prcatices or the construction of the project management (Myers, 2016). If accurate
project management methodology is applied by the project managers in the construction field

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then, it will help the project manager to explore the construction aim and objectives easily and
will help to identify the success elements associated to successful project management
construction factors. In order to determine the profit and benefits of construction projects it is
mandatory for the project manager to identify the factors of the construction projects accurately
Not only this but also, cost management, quality management, integration management and
stakeholder management are the other factors that are to be considered by the construction
project manager.
Accurate project management methodology can improve the estimation methodology as
well as measure the completion percentages as well (Simatupang & Sridharan, 2016). In case of
construction management two different project management methodologies are available such as
traditional management methodology and modern approaches. Different modern project
management methodologies are PMBoK, PRINCE2, CCPM, Euromethod etc (Presas, 2017). It is
mandatory for the project manager to follow any one of these project management mythology to
make sure that the project is meeting the expected outcome or the expectation of the consumers
(Nicholas & Steyn, 2017). For this specific construction project the project management
methodology that has been followed is Agile methodology. The details of the agile management
methodology or this project topic are elaborated in the below section:
The Agile project management methodology is comprises of 5 different phases such as
requirement identification or initiation, planning, design and execution phase, track and
monitoring and closure (Ashworth & Perera, 2018). If these phases are properly managed by the
project manager then within the expected budget and time the project manager will be able to
design and implement the project. The details of these phases are illustrated in this section.

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Requirement identification phase: The requirements associated to the projects are
being identified in this phase. The plot where the construction of the office complex will take
place is identified in this phase. Then the plot or the location will be analyzed in terms of
communication or transportation (Brito & Ferreira, 2015). If the traced location is identified as a
beneficial one then the project manager should select the location for further growth of the
construction project. On the other hand, if it is found that the chosen location is in an outskirts
area where the supply of the raw material and other requirements are difficult then, the bidding
approach should have to be changed and accordingly the about the location further thoughts will
be needed.
On the other hand, if the site is found to be perfect by the project team members then,
further activities in terms of stakeholder’s selection, resource allocation and contract with the
labours will be done by the project contractors and the project subcontractors as well (Presas,
2017). In addition to this, another important factor that has to be considered by the project head
is the sponsorship allotment, legal documents preparation and governmental support. While
developing the contract for the building construction project the project manager should follow
and maintain all the legal assigned acts needed for the successful accomplishment of the office
complex construction projects. If it is found that the legal acts used by the construction project
are not accurate then the construction may be interrupted during the design and construction
phase.
Once the solution of the construction project will be approved the project will be initiated
for implementation of the approved solution. In order to accomplish this approach a project
manager is also being appointed by the project owners (Fleming & Koppelman, 2016). In order
to examine the project success the major deliverables and the participating work groups of the

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project are also being identified. From this time only the construction project starts to take proper
shape. Then, project approval becomes an important factor for the project team members for the
project manager to move towards the project planning phase.
Construction project planning phase: This is the second phase of agile construction
project management that has to be followed by the project manager while implementing the
successful construction of the office complex (Roy & Jacob, 2015). The project planning phase
include further project development phase in details for meeting the objectives of the project.
Presas, (2017) stated that, always according to the project requirement a project team is prepared.
Based on the skills and knowledge of the project team members the work division are
done among the project team members. If the project managers fails to divide the work
accordingly then the project manager will fail to meet the objectives of the project. Therefore it
can be said that in this phase the project resources and development strategies are also needed to
be framed by the project head. Thus, it can be said that for the successful project implementation
the resource allocation that has to be carried out throughout the project development lifecycle ate
to be identified (Mok, Shen & Yang, 2015). Again based upon the project dependencies the
project manager should produce a project schedule in this phase. Then based on the complexity
of the project activities the project resources are required to be assigned for each of the different
tasks.
The project manager is responsible to coordinate the project preparation budget through
developing project cost estimation for the assigned resources such as labors, raw materials,
development equipments etc. It is expected that in case of construction this scheduling chart will
help the project manager to track the roles of the associated individuals to avoid time mess-up

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(Ogunde et al., 2017). This particular action is also known as the scope management plan
development. The already estimated project budget is utilized in this phase for monitoring and
controlling the cost expenditure while the project is being implemented by the assigned project
team members under the guidance of the contractors and the sub contractors.
At the end of the project planning phase, document will required for representing the
quality plan with a quality targets, control measures as well as assurance through listing all the
project criteria for meeting the project objectives (Oakland & Marosszeky, 2017). In this point of
project planning phase, it can be said that the project is absolutely ready for the further
execution.
Design and execution phase: This is referred to as the project implementation phase and
in this phase the construction project manager is required to design the project outlines in terms
of blueprint and then that must be prepare this in such a way so that it can be identified as a final,
ready for implementation. Whenever, it is found that the project plan is in the motion and the
work related to the project are performing practically on site then it can be said that the project is
ready for practical implementation (Harrison & Lock, 2017). This is paramount for the project
manager to maintain as well as communicate during each of the project implementation phase.
During the implementation phase al the necessary factors are to be designed professionally by
the project manager.
However, the progress of the project should have to be monitored in a timely manner by
the project team members and the project manager. On the other hand, the project manager is
responsible to make appropriate adjustment and record all the variance as per the original plan
(Fleming & Koppelman, 2016). In this particular phase most amount of time is being spent by

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the project manager. All the project activities are needed to be properly carried out by the project
manager and the project team members during the project progress period. With the help of the
project team meeting the information regarding the project progress can be analyzed and
reported by the project associates.
In order to preserve the control over the project direction the stored information are used
by the project manager. For measuring the performance of the project team members this
particular project progress report should be analyzed accordingly by the project team members
(Rozali, 2015). Whether the actual cost is equal to the planned cost or not is measured by the
construction project manager with the help of the certain appropriate project measurement tools.
It is expected that if all of these tools are properly utilized by the project manager then the
identified project deviation can be resolved accordingly by the project team members and the
project managers.
Proper plan is needed for making corrective project measures (Presas, 2017). In order to
reduce the work pressure from the project team members the large construction project should
have to be divided into small parts and to each of the project activities different resources are
assigned. This is the responsibility of the assigned team members to accomplish their job roles
within the estimated time phase and budget. In this phase proper project action plan should be
prepared by the project manager to get back to the original project plan.
If it is found that this plan is not happening appropriately then, reutilization of the record
variation will become necessary to publish the modification action plan for the project (Borse &
Attarde, 2016). For this particular office complex construction project all the key stakeholders
are to be informed accordingly. With the help of proper communication the project level