CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT I

SET 1
1. (a) Explain the different phases of a project specifying the activities to be carried
out in each of the phases
(b) Find out the contribution of the construction activities in the GDP of a country
2. A construction company engaged in undertaking small projects has recently
been awarded a project. The project activities and the estimated time for their
completion are listed in the table below along with the information on the
immediate predecessors.
(i) Construct a network for the project
(ii) Determine the critical path and the project completion time
(iii) What is the probability of completing the project in the completion time you
have arrived at?
(iv) Determine the time interval within which the probability of completion the
project will be 90%.
Days
Activity
Immediate predecessor
to
tm
tp
A
8
10
12
B
6
7
9
C
3
3
4
D
10
20
30
A
E
6
7
8
C
F
9
10
11
B,D,E
G
6
7
10
B,D,E
H
14
15
16
F
I
10
11
13
F
J
6
7
8
G,H
K
4
7
8
I,H
L
1
2
4
G,H
3. (a) State and explain briefly the classification of equipment according to their
kind of job, working process, etc.
(b) What is the importance of time and motion study
4. (a) Explain the causes of accidents on a construction site
(b) What are the different functions of material management
5. Explain the common types of engineering contracts and compare the following
types of contracts
(i) Item rate contract vs. lump-sum contract (ii) Cost plus contract vs. turnkey
contract
6. (a) Distinguish between Project Report and Feasibility Report of the construction
project.
(b) Explain Planning, scheduling and controlling in Project management.
7. Write short notes on
(i) M Book
(ii) Resource scheduling (iii) Work breakdown structure (WBS)

8. Write short notes on

(i) What is the content of specification and different types of specifications?
(ii) What is meant by earnest money deposit, price escalation clauses, liquidated
damages and penalty
(iii) Differentiate between CPM and PERT models for the project scheduling
SET 2
1.

(a) State the role of construction industry in infrastructure development

(b) What is role of construction industry in economic development?
2. Compute the total, independent and free float for a seven activity
activity relationships and durations are as under:
Activity
Description
Predecessors
Duration
A
Preliminary design
6
B
Evaluation of design
A
C
Contract negotiation
D
Preparation of fabrication plant
C
E
Final design
B, C
9
F
Fabrication of Product
D, E
G
Shipment of Product to owner
F

project whose

1
8
5
12
3

3.
(a) List out the factors that affect the selection of equipments
(b) Explain the need of time and motion studies in construction industry.
4. (a) Define Human Resource Management and describe a procedure suitable for
employment in large construction industry.
(b) Explain the safety measures to be adopted in the construction sites
5. (a) Define Tender. What are the documents to be attached along with tender
form?
(b) Describe the various dispute resolution mechanism adopted by construction
industry
6. (a) Explain in detail the purpose of construction scheduling and factors effecting
scheduling?
(b) What is work breakdown structure? Explain with an example.
7. (a) Explain the significance of the material management in construction industry.
State how material
management can be made effective.
(b) Discuss the utility and planning of resources for construction industry.
8. Write short notes on:
(i) Explain how floats useful in effective management of projects
(ii) How does the safety campaign plays a major role in construction industry
(iii) Explain inspection and quality control in construction industry.

ADVANCED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Set 1
1. a) Discuss comparison of flexibility and stiffness methods for analyzing a
structure
b) Generate flexibility and stiffness matrices by illustrating corresponding coefficients for the plane truss shown in figure below and subjected to two loads Al
and A2

2. (a) Explain the assembly of global or system stiffness matrix.

(b) Explain the process of element flexibility to system flexibility
3. Analyze the continuous beam in fig 1 by flexibility method

4. Analyze the frame shown in fig 2 by stiffness method.

5. (a) Why are Buildings with Shear Walls preferred in Seismic Regions?
(b) Explain static condensation techniques
6. (a) Explain sub structuring techniques for the analysis of structural systems.
(b) Set up the force transformation matrix for the beam shown in fig 3

7. (a) Derive the element flexibility matrix of the cantilever element shown in Fig 4

(b) Write short notes on Band Matrix and semi Band width
8. Analysis the frame shown in fig 5 by flexibility method

Set 2
1. (a) Explain the procedure of obtaining the overall stiffness matrix for a given
stable structure by the direct stiffness method
(b) Why is it necessary to transform the element stiffness matrix into global
coordinates?
2. a) Explain statical and kinematic indeterminacy with few examples.
b) Develop the displacement transformation matrix and calculate the structure
stiffness matrix. Using that system stiffness matrix, determine the internal forces of
the rigid jointed frame as shown in fig 1. Neglect axial deformations.

3. Determine the reactions at the supports and draw B.M.D and S.F.D for the
continuous beam loaded and supported as shown in Fig. 2 using the stiffness
approach.

Fig 2
4. Analyse the frame shown in Fig. 3 by flexibility matrix method to determine
reactions at supports A and D.

Fig 3

5. a) What is a shear wall. Discuss the structural behavior of a frame with and
without a shear wall.
b) Explain briefly factors influence the selection of shear walls and suitability of
framed-shear walls and coupled-shear walls?
6. Draw BMD of the portal frame shown in fig 4 using stiffness method.

7. a) Derive the expression for transformation of stiffness matrix from local to global
coordinates.
b) Explain the significance of proper-node numbering when analyzing by matrix
methods
8. Write short notes on
(i) Degrees of Freedom for trusses and frames with examples
(ii) Local and Global coordinate system with examples
(iii) Procedure of static condensation technique