6220BEUG Construction Project Report: Yale College Redevelopment Programme Management

Assignment Brief:

Project Background

The project involves the redevelopment of Coleg Cambria’s Yale Campus in Wrexham by Wynne Construction.
Demolition works, including asbestos removal, and site clearance works are taking place under a separate enabling works contract and will be completed prior to your involvement with the scheme.

You have been awarded the contract for the construction of a new three storey structure as per the drawings issued alongside this brief.

The client expects the construction of the new building to take no more than 78 weeks with a 6 week mobilisation period included within the overall time period.

Site Location

Located on the northern side of Wrexham Town Centre, Coleg Cambria’s Yale Campus is primarily accessed from Grove Park Road with secondary pedestrian access from Chester Road, which constrains the eastern boundary. The campus is bound to the west by Rhosddu Road and by the A5152 to the north. To the east lies one of the main retail areas of Wrexham commercial town centre and to the west public transport hubs and links to the university.

The site largely consists of areas of hard standing and existing college buildings which are due to be demolished as part of the scheme under separate contract. External areas consist of boundary walls and hedgerows with trees.

6220BEUG Tasks

You are employed as the Contractor’s Project Manager on the Yale College Redevelopment, and you must produce some information for reporting to the Client as follows:

Task 1

A Construction Phase Programme for the new three storey Yale College Building, developed using Asta Powerproject. The programme is to be based upon the information and drawings provided and discussions within workshops and tutorials.

The programme should be suitable for monthly reporting to the client under an NEC form of contract.

The programme should show the key milestone dates that you think relevant, links between tasks, the critical path, total or free float and terminal float as required by the contract.

The Principal Contractor will Start On Site on Monday 1st September 2025, at 08:00 hours = Date Zero. Please assume a 5-day working week and ensure all annual holiday periods are included.

The overall programme duration should not exceed 76 weeks. The programme detail should be 100 rows +/- 20.

Task 1 programme should be saved as a PDF and submitted as: Yale College_Programme 1_Contract Programme Any assumptions or justification for decisions made during the development of the programme should be listed within the report submission.

NB Duration Calculations as per Task 2 will need to be completed and included in this programme.

Task 2

You are required to allocate resources on your programme and show resource usage for the following trades: –

• Installation of passenger lifts
• Internal doors as per the GA plans
• Specialist Sports Hall flooring

Please provide a narrative to explain what you have done, to include quantities, durations, calculations, allocations and a resource histogram, or histograms, that shows resource usage in relation to the programme during the relevant time periods.

This task requires a second programme to be submitted, that shows the resource histogram(s) and the tasks that they are assigned to, clearly and concisely. This programme should be saved and submitted as: Yale College_Programme 2_Resources

Task 3

You are required to provide a progress report for the client after the following delays have been considered:

• Some exceptionally poor weather impeded works to the roof coverings and caused a 3-day delay.
• Supply chain issues caused the flooring contractor a delay with materials delivery to site, which impacted their works for 5 days.

This programme should be saved and submitted as: Yale College_Programme 3_Progress
As your programme is individual, you will have to determine which week of the programme it is most appropriate to complete the progress report(s) based upon the above scenarios being considered within your own timeline.
For task 3, please supply some narrative/Asta screen shots to explain the effects of these delays on other activities and the resultant effect on the projected completion date of the project, including any contraction of the terminal float. The narrative should also propose a method or solution for recovering the time lost on the programme.

General Points To Note

The drawings for the Project and other relevant information can be found on Canvas>Assessment.
This is an individual piece of coursework. Whilst you may talk to your peers and lecturers about your work, each submission is individual, and no collusion is tolerated.

The programme must be prepared using Elecosoft Asta Powerproject software. This is accessible on campus and via the virtual desktop.

The Programmes (Task 1, 2 and 3), duration calculations (Task 2) and narrative on the project delays (Task 3) must be submitted in a report format, together with any assumptions/justification/explanation/narrative you feel is required to support your submission. There is word limit of 2000 words for the written elements of the report.

The report should be professionally presented with a front cover (See Appendix 1), executive summary, contents page, numbered pages and references in accordance with the Harvard reference standard.

Tasks are to be submitted in electronic format. One single PDF document is preferred, and this is to be uploaded to Canvas. NO ASTA FILES SHOULD BE SUBMITTED (Your Asta programme should be saved as a PDF and submitted with the report).

Programmes should be presented at an appropriate, readable scale (suggestion of circa 50 tasks per page) at A3 size in PDF format. Details on how this can be achieved are provided in IT workshop 5.
All tasks will be submitted on Friday 4th July 2025
Feedback will be provided by Thursday 31st July 2025

Learning Outcomes of 6220BEUG

MLO1 Critically evaluate resource implications for time and cost optimisation and project acceleration.
MLO2 Analyse and assess project risk and create methods for the estimation and management of risk on construction projects.
MLO3 Devise and evaluate quality management systems.
MLO4 Critically appraise health and safety management in relation to production processes, evaluating the Industry in terms of culture, behaviour and ethical practices.

Assessment Criteria:

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

You should submit a single word-processed document saved in PDF format using the following formatting specification:

• Front cover to include module title & code, your student ID and the total word count (Appendix 1)
• Headings and sub-headings in bold and appropriately numbered
• Page numbers and student ID should be included in the footnotes

REFERENCING, FEEDBACK AND DEADLINES

REFERENCING

In your assignments, you should ensure that you cite and reference all your sources, conforming to the Harvard Referencing convention. If you have doubts about how to use this convention, the LJMU study support web pages provide on-line tutorials. You should include references to all cited sources in a single “References” section at the end of the assignment.

FEEDBACK

All feedback and marks provided are un-moderated and subject to change during the internal and external moderation process. You will receive your feedback and mark within 15 working days from your submission date.

REFERRAL/DEFERRAL

Students experience unexpected events in the days leading up to a deadline. These events include laptop or PC failures, hard drive corruption, and forgetting to make backup copies of assignments. None of these reasons warrant an extension to a deadline. Therefore, it is important to plan your work in a way that allows time to handle these unexpected events. Additionally, it’s advisable to verify the holiday hours of libraries.

However, if you believe your circumstances justify an extension to the deadline, then you should send an e-mail to the module leader as soon as you are aware of the problem and before the deadline. If your request is refused, then you may use the Extenuating Circumstances process to ask the Board of Examiners to “defer” your assessment until a later date. Requests for extensions received after the deadline will be refused and you will be advised to seek a deferral.
If you achieve less than 40% overall, you will fail the assessment of learning on the module and you will be “referred” in the module by the next Board of Examiners for the programme. You will be required to submit a new assignment (your “referral” attempt). This may be either on a new topic or on a provided case study. If you are “deferred”, a new deadline will be communicated to you following the meeting of the Board of Examiners.

ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT

Academic Misconduct is deemed to cover cheating, attempts to cheat, plagiarism, collusion and any other attempts to gain an unfair advantage in assessment It is the responsibility of the student to be aware that academic misconduct, in any form, constitutes a serious offence. Penalties can range from the reduction of module marks to exclusion from the University. It is the responsibility of the student to take reasonable precautions to guard against unauthorised access by others to his/her work, both before and after assessment”. If you are found guilty, you may be expelled from the University with no award.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you understand what constitutes Academic Misconduct and to ensure that you do not break the rules. If you are unclear about what is required, please ask.

Personal Circumstances

If something serious happens that means that you will not be able to complete this assignment, you need to contact the module leader as soon as possible. There are several things that can be done to help, such as extensions, waivers, and alternative assessments, but we can only arrange this if you tell us. To ensure that the system is not abused, you will need to provide some evidence of the problem.

More guidance is available at the LJMU’s Guidance Policy and Process.