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CVEN3101 Engineering Operations and Control

Term 3, 2020

Group Assignment – Part B: Engineering Report on Construction Operations and Control

Due time and date: 17:00, Sunday, 22 November 2020, Week 10

Method of submission: Softcopy only, submit your Group Assignment through Turnitin under the

Moodle’s ‘Assignments’ section. Only ONE copy of the Group Assignment – Part B needs to be

submitted from each group. After submitting in Moodle, always check what you have submitted. Do

not email your Group Assignment – Part B to your course coordinator or your demonstrator.

Weight of the Group Assignment – Part B: 20 Marks

Late submission penalty

Submit as early as possible since late submissions will receive a 10% deduction penalty per day. Late

submissions up to 5 days late will be marked and will receive the appropriate penalty deductions. Any

submissions made that are more than 5 days late will not be accepted for marking.

Important Notice

It is not necessary to visit your nominated construction project to prepare your Engineering Report. If

you plan to inspect the site, under no circumstances are you to enter the construction area.

Scope of Work

Each group is required to nominate a construction project and review its construction engineering and

management operations. Based on your course learnings and the information you obtain from your

selected project, you are to prepare an Engineering Report which must include:

1. An introduction of the selected construction project including its background, its scope, its

purpose, and its stakeholders

2. Project cost estimation including its cost breakdown to its work packages

3. Project time estimation including the provision of WBS and activities sequencing network

4. Discussion on project lifecycle and the activities covered in each phase

5. Discussion on how different activities of the project can be compressed and what types of

resources are required to crash the project duration

6. Discussion on safety and quality management procedures implemented in the selected

construction project and how they can be improved

7. Discussion on how professional conduct and engineering ethics are followed and how they

can be improved

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Engineering Report Writing and Structure Requirements

In preparing your Engineering Report, you are advised that you are to prepare it to these requirements:

− Fill the cover sheet for Group Assignment – Part B and use it as the first page of your

Engineering Report. All group members must write their full name and zID in the cover sheet.

The blank cover sheet is provided in Moodle.

− The structure of the Engineering Report is to be compiled as follows:

Cover Page

Executive Summary

Table of Contents

Introduction

[In the main body of your Engineering Report, you are to develop some headings according to

those elements you previously nominated in Group Assignment – Part A.]

Conclusion

References

Appendix (if needed)

− Your Engineering Report is to be drafted in the following format:

Headings: 14-point Times New Roman font bolded.

Text: 12-point Times New Roman black font, 1.5 line spacing, page numbered, 20 mm margins

at top and bottom, and 30 mm side margins. Your writing should be left and right margin

justified.

− The length of the Engineering Report is to be approximately 3000 words (±10%) excluding

References and Appendix sections.

− ‘Executive Summary’ and ‘Table of Contents’ are needed for any Engineering Report. These

sections must be in the second page and the third page of your Engineering Report

respectively after the Cover Sheet as your first page. Executive Summary is a concise 1-page

summary of your report and is totally different from the Introduction.

− Page numbering is required in the footers. Nothing else must be written in headers or footers.

− Proof-reading is required for spelling and grammar checking. English writing must be at the

expected academic standard.

− The Engineering Report is to be written in the third person.

− You are permitted to use up to five types of illustrations in the body of your Engineering Report:

including pictures, figures, tables, graphs, and charts. They need to be captioned using 10-

point Arial font and sequentially numbered:

e.g. (Figure 1: [caption]; Figure 2: [caption]; Table 1: [caption]; Table 2: [caption], etc.)

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− Each illustration needs to be cited in your Engineering Report to link it to the writing content.

Any further details are to be included in an Appendix alongside with a table listing the site visits

dates and students attended each site visit.

− In preparing your Engineering Report, you need to provide references and in-text citation to

those sources. Referencing is to be to Harvard Standard. For this work, it is expected that you

will use a minimum of 10 reference sources. If you are using Internet source references, they

need to be properly referenced. Wikipedia is not acceptable as a reference. All references

need to be cited throughout your writings according to Harvard Standard practice, and a full

list of your used references (Author-Surname alphabetically sorted) must be provided at the

end of your Engineering Report under the ’References’ heading. A detailed guide can be found

from UNSW website: https://student.unsw.edu.au/harvard-referencing

Marking Criteria

1. Technical Content (14 marks in total)

− Project cost estimation including its cost breakdown (3 marks)

− Project time estimation including the provision of WBS and activities sequencing network (3

marks)

− Discussion on project lifecycle and the activities covered in each phase (2 marks)

− Project crashing by compressing activities duration (2 marks)

− Discussion on safety, quality, and engineering ethics, and improvement (4 marks)

2. Engineering Report Format and Structure, Written English, and Referencing (6 marks in total)

− Your Engineering Report will be judged in its format, structure, and academic writing including

referencing to Harvard Standard and in-text citation. Your group must exhibit good flow

throughout the Engineering Report in linking what you have observed on site and what you have

learnt in the course.

Submission Requirements

Prepare your Group Assignment – Part B in Microsoft Word and on completion convert it to a PDF file

which will be the file you will submit. Your PDF file is to be named accordingly:

[Group Number_CVEN3101_Part B_2020],

e.g. [Group 10_CVEN3101_Part B_2020].