Engineering Management Report: Warka Water Tower Project Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the Warka Water Tower project, focusing on its budget, cost estimation, and key stakeholders. The Warka Water Tower is presented as an alternative water source designed for rural environments, addressing challenges in accessing drinking water due to infrastructure limitations. The report outlines the tower's design, components, and construction, estimating a total project cost of AUD $10,000-20,000. It includes a detailed budget breakdown with tasks, durations, resource allocation, and associated costs. The report also identifies and discusses the roles of various stakeholders, such as the project manager, contractor, finance manager, material suppliers, and architect, emphasizing the importance of their engagement for project success. A cash flow diagram illustrates the project's financial aspects over time. The document concludes by highlighting the potential for high revenue and commercial benefits through the implementation of such water towers, providing drinking water and serving other purposes for people in rural areas. Desklib offers more solved assignments and resources for students.

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Part 2: Project budget, estimate and project stakeholders
This part of the report depicts the importance of project budgeting, its estimation and
stakeholders associated. In order to accomplish any project successfully, it is necessary for the
stakeholders to keep themselves engaged to job roles. Warka water tower which is an alternative
water source that provides service to the people belongs to rural environment. Wherever, any
water supplier faced some critical challenges during the access of drinking water due to
infrastructure lacks in terms of community isolation, easy construction different independent
systems like Warka Water Tower can be installed. The model or design basic of the Warka
Water Tower is quite strong and the components of the water tower are as follows:
 The total height of the tower: Fiber structure of 30 feet
 The basement is: 10 feet
 Above that a water collecting tank is prepared
 All above a mesh is present which is closed with a dome
 3 feet of air passing passage between the mesh and the water collecting tank
The brilliant design of the water tank harnesses drinking water from the thin air, was first
installed in the year of 2014. This design is capable to produce potable water through harvesting
fog, rain etc. This water tower is comprises of bamboo frame, rope, mesh that is recyclable,
canopy etc. Basically, this kind of water tank can be prepared with a minimum budget. The total
cost estimated or this project is AUD $10000-20000. However, the total budget estimated for the
project must be approved by the project sponsors. Based on the scope, deliverables and
objectives of the project the project budget have been prepared.
Task Name Duration Start Finish Resource Names Cost

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Warka water tower
project planning 138 days Tue
4/10/18 Thu 10/18/18 $174,880.00
Project kickoff 14 days Tue
4/10/18 Fri 4/27/18 $23,520.00
Selection of
location where the
Warka water tower
will be developed
2 days Tue
4/10/18 Wed 4/11/18 Project manager $2,240.00
Site investigation 4 days Thu
4/12/18 Tue 4/17/18
material
suppliers ,Project
manager
$7,040.00
Identification of
water issues in that
location
3 days Wed
4/18/18 Fri 4/20/18 architect, material
suppliers $4,800.00
Development of
project concept 5 days Mon
4/23/18 Fri 4/27/18 Project manager $5,600.00
Preparing ½
scaled prototype 4 days Mon
4/23/18 Thu 4/26/18 contractor $3,840.00
Milestone 1:
Completion of
project kickoff
0 days Fri 4/27/18 Fri 4/27/18 Project manager $0.00
Requirement
gathering and
analysis
28 days Mon
4/30/18 Wed 6/6/18 $34,880.00
Full scale
prototype
development
2 days Mon
4/30/18 Tue 5/1/18 architect $1,920.00
Testing materials
(PE meshes and
Juncus)
4 days Wed 5/2/18 Mon 5/7/18 architect $3,840.00
Development of
parametric design 5 days Tue 5/8/18 Mon 5/14/18 Project manager $5,600.00
Concept
development phase 3 days Tue
5/15/18 Thu 5/17/18 architect, Project
manager $6,240.00
Optimization of
material 5 days Fri 5/18/18 Thu 5/24/18 material suppliers $3,200.00
Transport and
modularity
development
3 days Fri 5/25/18 Tue 5/29/18 Project manager,
operation manager $6,720.00
Lightening
material optimization 4 days Fri 5/25/18 Wed 5/30/18 material suppliers $2,560.00
Prototype
construction and
contract sign
5 days Thu
5/31/18
Wed 6/6/18 architect $4,800.00

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agreement
Milestone 2:
Completion of
milestone gathering
and analysis phase
0 days Wed 6/6/18 Wed 6/6/18 Project manager $0.00
Research and
development of the
implementation
34 days Thu 6/7/18 Tue 7/24/18 $42,400.00
Development of
design 2 days Thu 6/7/18 Fri 6/8/18 architect $1,920.00
Developing
collector 3 days Mon
6/11/18 Wed 6/13/18 architect, Project
manager $6,240.00
Material
upgradation to
bamboo
7 days Thu
6/14/18 Fri 6/22/18 material suppliers $4,480.00
Design and
development of
workino
6 days Mon
6/25/18 Mon 7/2/18 architect $5,760.00
Wind testing and
rope network
designing
5 days Tue 7/3/18 Mon 7/9/18
material
suppliers ,Project
manager
$8,800.00
Launching
crowdfunding 5 days Tue
7/10/18 Mon 7/16/18 Project manager $5,600.00
Crowdfunding
campaign 4 days Tue
7/10/18 Fri 7/13/18 contractor $3,840.00
Workino
development and rain
water collection
6 days Tue
7/17/18 Tue 7/24/18 architect $5,760.00
Milestone 3:
Completion of
research and
development phase
0 days Tue
7/24/18 Tue 7/24/18 Project manager $0.00
Design testing 41 days Wed
7/25/18 Wed 9/19/18 $47,840.00
Testing phase 1 24 days Wed
7/25/18 Mon 8/27/18 $28,320.00
Fog harvesting
for mesh
development
5 days Wed
7/25/18 Tue 7/31/18 architect, material
suppliers $8,000.00
Water filter
testing 4 days Wed 8/1/18 Mon 8/6/18 Project manager $4,480.00
Fog harvesting
test 6 days Tue 8/7/18 Tue 8/14/18 architect $5,760.00
Development 4 days Wed Mon 8/20/18 Project manager $4,480.00

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of canopy 8/15/18
Gathered data
analysis 5 days Tue
8/21/18 Mon 8/27/18 operation manager $5,600.00
Testing phase 2 17 days Tue
8/28/18 Wed 9/19/18 $19,520.00
Water storage
distribution 3 days Tue
8/28/18 Thu 8/30/18 architect $2,880.00
Dew collection 4 days Fri 8/31/18 Wed 9/5/18 architect $3,840.00
Construction
and maintenance
manual
5 days Thu 9/6/18 Wed 9/12/18 architect $4,800.00
Evaluation and
design finalization 5 days Thu
9/13/18 Wed 9/19/18 contractor ,material
suppliers $8,000.00
Milestone 4:
Completion of
project testing phase
0 days Wed
9/19/18 Wed 9/19/18 Project manager $0.00
Pilot installation 12 days Thu
9/20/18 Fri 10/5/18 $18,080.00
3 pilot
installation for
various location
5 days Thu
9/20/18 Wed 9/26/18
material
suppliers ,Project
manager
$8,800.00
Monitoring trial 4 days Thu
9/27/18 Tue 10/2/18 Project manager $4,480.00
Material testing 3 days Wed
10/3/18 Fri 10/5/18 architect, material
suppliers $4,800.00
Milestone 5:
Completion of pilot
installation phase
0 days Fri 10/5/18 Fri 10/5/18 Project manager $0.00
Project closure 9 days Mon
10/8/18 Thu 10/18/18 $8,160.00
Stakeholders
signoff 5 days Mon
10/8/18 Fri 10/12/18 Project manager $5,600.00
Final submission
of document 4 days Mon
10/15/18 Thu 10/18/18 material suppliers $2,560.00
Milestone 6:
Completion of
project closure phase
0 days Thu
10/18/18 Thu 10/18/18 Project manager $0.00

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However, during the ongoing phase of the project, it has been found that, an important
equipment is missing that cannot be undertaken without third party outsourcing. The third party
outsourced for the project, is allocated on a budget rate of AUD $5000-20000.
In order to prepare such water tower the stakeholders nominated include: Project
manager, contractor, Finance manager, material supplier, architect, third party sponsors. It can be
said that in order to prepare such Warka water tower, minimum cost will be needed. It is
expected that, with the implementation of such water tower the company or industry will be able
to get high revenue and commercial benefits. It will supply drinking water and water to serve
other purposes, to the people of rural areas.
A complete budget, stakeholders through estimating cost for each of the project activities
are prepared in this report and elaborated in the below section. It can be said that, successful
utilization of the stakeholders, budget and time will lead the project towards success. The
schedule of the project is as follows:

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Figure 1: Gantt chart of the Warka Water tower project
(Source: created by author)
2.1 Stakeholders associated to the project
Resource Name Material
Label Max. Units Std. Rate Ovt. Rate Cost/Use
Project manager 100% $140.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00
finance manager 100% $120.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00
operation manager 100% $140.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00
contractor 100% $120.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00

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architect 100% $120.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00
material suppliers 100% $80.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00
2.2 Cash flow Budget of the project

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2018
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Chart Title
Cumulative Cost
Figure 3: Cash Flow diagram of the project
(Source: created by author)

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