Essay on Unicon

A basic definition for the procurement is “the way the building is realised” and “involves assembling and organising the skills and services of a team of construction professionals”. (the Construction Round Table, 1995). More precisely, the construction industry describes procurement as “a system that establishes the roles and relationships which make up a project organisation”; hence the overall organisation and communication structure for the management, administration and control of a project is established by the procurement system. (D.C.H Coles, 2010)

Facades and slabs are becoming the growing trend. Together they make up 54% of Unicons sales. This is becoming the industry trend amongst general contractors.

Use trial and error to find the quantity of tile sets per month that yields the highest profit.

Explanation: Catawba Industrial could produce just the light weight compressors. It can be determined the capacity units based upon the maximum hours worked per week of 2000 hours, which would thus be divided into the number of hours per unit of 62.5.

Based on our estimate cost, we will need different number of employees each month to finish the project. This is going to be a big construction which will include different type of staffing. We will rely on both an architect and a contractor.

Size of desks park = number of businesses in delivery area x number of employees (you might want to refine this number based on the sector as not all employees have desks)

$1.6 billion / 466 thousand tpy = $3,433 (cost of capital per ton of capacity)

A company manufactures a product currently using two machines. Each machine averages 225 units of the product per day. However,  annual demand is forecasted to reach 150000 units of product in year 2013. How many machines in total should the company plan to use in order to be able to satisfy demand in the future? Assume 240 workdays per year. 225x240=54,000 so 150,000/54,000=2.78 or 3

③Third step is to estimate costs. Since the average number of CMI pads need per year is 204,750(question 2), the number of CMI pads per month is about 17,000. So, the additional capacity

The total number of units that has to be produced is 200 in which 100 should be produced during the first 12 months. The remaining 100 units would be produced and delivered in two bits of 5o units each and would be produced at 3-motnth intervals.

Client and the contractor have same priorities. Basically, contractor will make the decision in turnkey approach and client will just accept in silent. In this project, the contractor and the client have the same focus and priorities therefore the relationship between the contractor and client is good and there is no overruns or communication problems between both sides.

In this project, the critical path is the A + B + C + G + I + J = 3 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 16 days which consists the activities of pouring the foundation which takes 3 days; building the frame takes 4 days as well as placing the roof; setting the rough-in frame takes 2 days as well as painting the garage; and clean-up takes 1 day. To sum up, the duration of the project would take 16 working days, which means that there will be a deduction of $100 from the $500 bonus due to the one-day extra work.

There however are challenges in the industry occasioned by uncertainty on future spending on construction projects by the government. Moreover, the cost of doing business and the ability to increasingly make revenue have created a challenging environment for the construction firms. Therefore stakeholders in the construction industry are concerned with whether the government would increase its spending and whether the public construction projects will be available in the future since less than 10 percent are currently financing their clients.

Another ‘fast track’ strategy where work can be carry out before the design is complete. Construction manager is appointed in early state may benefit to the client. For this strategy, client have direct contract with the trade contractor. Same as management contracting, the final cost for the project can not be identified until the final work has been awarded.

The purpose of this report is to summarize and analyze the various construction procurement methods used in the construction industry. This report was commissioned by SMRC medical research corporation. This report will identify a recommended method to the commissioner for the development of their new research facility.