Project Management Report: Iconic Residential Building Development

This report provides a comprehensive overview of a project management plan for constructing a residential building on government-leased land in Bambalapitiya, Colombo. It covers various aspects, including project description, building classifications (residential, educational, institutional, assembly, business, mercantile, industrial, storage, and hazardous), major project demands, site selection and study, site surveys (reconnaissance and detailed), building regulations, room arrangements, building orientation, process mapping, and a detailed risk analysis using a risk matrix. The report emphasizes the importance of pre-construction planning and smooth project execution, highlighting key factors such as environmental conditions, financial capacity, and future provisions for a successful mixed-use development.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Description of the project:...............................................................................................................3
Classification of the buildings:........................................................................................................4
Group A: Residential Buildings...................................................................................................4
Group B: Educational Buildings..................................................................................................4
Group C: Institutional Buildings.................................................................................................5
Group D: Assembly Buildings.....................................................................................................5
Group E: Business Buildings.......................................................................................................5
Group F: Mercantile Buildings....................................................................................................6
Group G: Industrial Buildings.....................................................................................................6
Group H: Storage Buildings:.......................................................................................................6
Group I: Hazardous Buildings.....................................................................................................6
Major demands of the project:.........................................................................................................7
Appropriate selection of the plot and Study:...................................................................................7
Surveys of the sites of be desired building:.....................................................................................9
The building buy laws and regulations:...........................................................................................9
Arrangement of the rooms in the residential buildings:................................................................10
Orientation of the buildings inside the Project:.............................................................................12
Orientation:....................................................................................................................................12

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Representation of the process thinking:.........................................................................................15
Risk analysis:.................................................................................................................................16
The chosen method in range of identification risks in the project:................................................20
Identification of the risks:..........................................................................................................20
Usage of the Risk Matrix in the risk Register............................................................................21
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................25
References:....................................................................................................................................27

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Introduction:
Some of the basic needs of human existence includes the shelter, clothing and foods.
From the early days of man they have been associated with making attempts for the purpose of
making improvements in the standards related to living. The major point of the efforts made by
mankind has been associated with providing a shelter which would be economic along with
being efficient. The possessions of the shelter along with being basic, used, is also associated
with providing the feeling of security, responsibility and showing social status of the man
(Yazdani et al. 2019). There always exists an inherent liking by each human being related to a
peaceful environment which is needed for having a peaceful environment and this objective is
generally achieved by means of having a place to live which is situated in a safe and convenient
location and this type of place is need for having a comfortable and pleasant living which
generally required to be considered and kept in view as well.
Some of the most important factor that need to be considered includes the following:
• An environment which would be Peaceful in nature.
• Safety against any kind of natural calamities or adverse climate conditions
• General facilities.
Description of the project:
The engineer who would be assigned for this project needs to keep in his mind about
various things like the municipal conditions, the building buy laws, the environmental conditions
the financial capacity, the arrangement of sewers, supply of drinking water, future provision,
aeration and ventilation and many more before initiating the project (Alavipour and Arditi 2018).

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This report would be discussing about the build an iconic residential building as a development
of the Government leased land which is located in Bambalapitiya, Colombo city. An extensive
project planning would be done along with process mapping and pre-construction work so as to
make sure that the entire project is being executed in a smooth manner.
Classification of the buildings:
The mixed-use construction would be associated with the creation of the all-inclusive
community experience within just a couple of blocks. This would be consisting of multi-housing
construction along with parking structures, buildings designed for official use, as well as retail
stores. All this would be requiring an array of construction techniques as well as methods. The
complex nature of this type of well-planned development is associated with making this sector as
one of the most challenging sector (Islam et al. 2015). Besides this there is also a need of
constant communication along with a consistent quality control as well as an impeccable
standards. The different group of buildings included in the mixed development project has been
listed below:
Group A: Residential Buildings
This section of the project would be including all the buildings where the sleeping
accommodation would be provided for a normal residential purpose and might or might not be
consisting of cooking facilities (Li et al. 2016). This section would be including single or
multiple family dwellings, rooming houses or lodgings, apartment houses, restaurants, hostels,
residential hostels and dormitories

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Group B: Educational Buildings
This section of the project would mainly be dealing with the construction of various
buildings that would be used for purposes like schools, colleges or for day-care purposes and
would be involving the assembly so as to provide instruction, educational and the recreational
buildings which are generally not included in the assembly buildings.
Group C: Institutional Buildings
This section of the project would be mainly responsible for the designing and
construction of those buildings which would be used for different purposes like for providing
medical or any other type of treatment of providing care for person who would be suffering from
physical and mental illness, diseases or infirmity, infant care, convalescents or for aged persons
detentions where the liberty that is provided to the inmates would be restricted (Sha'ar et al.
2017). Institutional buildings would ordinarily be associated with providing sleeping.
Group D: Assembly Buildings
In this of the project those buildings would be planned and constructed which would be
used by group of peoples so as to meet or gather for the purpose of amusement or recreation or
for social or religious gatherings and would be mainly consisting of the assembly halls, city
halls, marriage halls, museums or places of worship and many more.
Group E: Business Buildings
This section of the project would be associated with the creation of the buildings which
would be mainly be used for various business transactions and would also be used for the
purpose of keeping the accounts as well as the records and all other similar purpose (Guo and
Yiu 2015). This would be mainly consisting of banks professional establishments, offices, court

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houses, libraries and many more. The principle function which would be played by these
buildings would be including the transactions of the public businesses and keeping of the books
as well as records.
Group F: Mercantile Buildings
This section of the project is aimed at the construction and designing of those buildings
which would be used as shops or stores or market in order to display and sale various kind of
merchandise either in wholesale or as retail (Oyeyipo et al. 2016). This would be also be
including the offices, shops, storage service facilities that are incidental to the sale of
merchandise and are located in the same building.
Group G: Industrial Buildings
This section would mainly be dealing with the construction of those buildings which are
generally used and would primarily be used for the purpose of storing or providing shelter for the
goods, wares and merchandise, vehicles and animals such as the warehouse or cold storage or
garage.
Group H: Storage Buildings:
In this section of the project the buildings which would primarily use by the inhabitants
for the storage or for sheltering the goods would be constructed.
Group I: Hazardous Buildings
This would be mainly consisting of those buildings which would be used for storing as
well as for handling, manufacturing and processing of the materials which are highly explosive
and combustible and are having the liability of getting burnt at an extreme rate. This materials

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might also be associated with production of highly poisonous elements for the storage handling
(Almahmoud and Doloi 2015).
Major demands of the project:
The house that is to be built would be acting as the societies first unit and the primary
unit of this would be including the human habitation. The house which would be built would be
aimed at granting protection against the various climatic conditions like the wind, changing
weathers and for providing insurance against the various physical insecurities (Senouci and
Mubarak 2016). Some of the major features related to the demands includes its unique nature and
is dependent upon the following factors that are listed below:
 The cheap finance availability
 The skilled labors availability
 Good transport facilities availability
 The cost of the labors and the materials needed for construction
 Predicting the future demand
 The rate of interest upon the investments for example the low interest rate
associated with the facilitation of the long term payment which might be associated with
facilitating the investment in the housing (Williams 2016)
 The rate of growth in population along with the urbanization
 The supply of the plots which has been developed at prices which is seen to be
reasonable in nature
 The real estate taxation policy
 The planning of the town and the environmental conditions.

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Appropriate selection of the plot and Study:
Selecting the appropriate plot is one of the most important task and this is mainly done
for the purpose of having a mixed development which would be consisting of residential, retail
and commercial buildings. The site that is to be selected would be near to the beach that is in the
Bambalapitiya, should be a good place where there would be existing a community along with
services which are convenient. However this services should not be so closed in nature so that it
is not becoming a source of any kind of inconvenience or makes the surrounding noisy (Naoum
2015). Additionally, there must exist convenient transportation which is important not only
because of the current existing needs but is also very much important for the retention of the
value of the entire plot in the future which are seen to be very much closely related to the
transportation, or shopping or other facilities which are also necessary (Monghasemi et al. 2015).
Besides this some of the things that are to be observed regarding the conditions of the nearby
roads includes the fact that if there exists any kind of indication related to future development
and many more. Some of the major factors which needs to be considered for the purpose of
selecting the building site includes the following things:
 Access to the nearby parks and the playgrounds
 The agricultural polytonality of the land
 The availability of the various public utility services which specially includes the
water, electricity and the disposal of the sewage
 The distance from the place of work (Cao et al. 2015)
 The ease of drainage facility
 Distance from places like the school, college and the public buildings
 The transport facilities

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 The velocity and direction of the wind
Surveys of the sites of be desired building:
Some of the survey which needs to be conducted includes the following:
1. The reconnaissance survey: some of the major findings of the reconnaissance
survey includes the following:
 The location of the site is situated nearby
 The site is consisting a very clear plan without any kind of ably dry grasses or any
other kind of throne plants over the entire site
 There is no need of leveling as the site is uniformly leveled.
 The site is also consisting of soft ground
 Labors are also available from the sites surroundings
2. Detailed Survey: The major reason lying behind the conducting of the detailed
survey is for the determination of the boundaries of the area that is required by the site
(Wong, San Chan and Wadu 2016). This has been done by taking help of the theodolite
and the compass.
The building buy laws and regulations:
Some of the building buying lays and regulations have been listed below:
 The line of the building frontage and the minimum size of the plots
 Open spaces that surrounds the residential buildings
 The minimum standard dimensions of the elements required for the building
purpose
 The provisions related to the lightning and the ventilation

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 The provisions related to the safety from any kind of explosions
 The provisions related to the various means of access
 The provisions related to the drainage and the sanitation
 The provisions related to the safety of the workers against any kind of hazards
 The requirements related to the off-street parking space
 The requirements related to landscaping
 The special requirements related to the low income housing
 The size of the elements required for building the structure.
Arrangement of the rooms in the residential buildings:
The arrangement of the rooms inside the house would be including the following:
Living room:
This would be including the area for general use and for this reason the living along with
the drawing room is to be planned in such a way that it faces the sun in the colder days that is
towards south and would be receiving sunshine which would be acting as a welcoming feature.
Kitchen:
This would be built in the Easter aspects so as to admit the sun in the morning so as to
receive fresh and pure air.
Bathrooms:
The bathrooms along with the W.C are generally to be combined with one of the room
and attached to the bed room and it is necessarily to be made sure that it is finished in a well-
mannered way. The bathrooms are to be filled with items like the bath tubs, shower, and hand-

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wash basins, W.C, towels shelves and many more (Abanda et al. 2015). The entire bathroom
would be furnished with white glazed tiles and the floors would be mosaic or made of white
glazed files. Besides this instead of having attached bedrooms and W.C in all bed rooms it is
better to have a separated baths it is better to provide the latrines and baths.
Reading rooms or class rooms:
This would be in the Northern Aspects which would be making it much more suitable
due to the fact that there would not be existing any kind of sun from the northern side in most
part of the year.
Bed rooms:
Bedrooms might also be provided with attached bathrooms toilets and besides the size of the bed
room is generally dependent upon the number of beds that are to kept inside the room and
besides this the things are to be arranged in such a way that privacy is provided along with
accommodation for the other things like chairs, cupboards and many more.
Verandah:
Verandah is to build in the rear as well as in the front. The front verandah would be built
with the purpose of serving setting place for the male members and weighting place for the
visitors (Zolfani et al. 2018). The back verandah would be associated with serving the ladies
apartment for their sitting, controlling their works, their kitchen works and many more. Verandah
would be projecting the room against the direct sunlight, rain and all other weather effects they
would be used as the sleeping place at summer and rainy seasons as well as are used for keeping
various things in the verandah so as to provide appearance to the building.