CM 1011 Final

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Our guest speaker graduated in CM at LSU

True

Our guest speaker works for D.R. Horton

True

Palmisano Construction does mostly commercial projects

True

Palmisano is a design-build / design-assist company

True

"TQM" stands for Terminal Quality Management

False

A Certificate of Substantial Completion should not be recorded at the courthouse

False

A bid is the same as an estimate

False

A site layout plan does not include employee parking

False

All of the subcontract bids were in conformance with the specifications

False

An RFI means a "requirement for information."

False

An SOV is the contractor's budget.

False

BIM is not a good tool for site planning

False

BIM is not good for "what if" situations

False

BIM is two dimensional

False

Bidding is an area that is not affected by ethics

False

Change orders are an area where ethical violations do not occur

False

Change orders should be seen as an opportunity to make a large profit

False

Corrective action has to wait until the project is completed

False

D.R. Horton mostly builds custom houses in the million dollar range

False

D.R. Horton self performs about 50% of the work it does

False

D.R. Horton started as a construction company in 1948

False

Delays in construction are expected and cannot be measured

False

Documentation should include opinions of the person preparing it

False

Drafting the contract documents is one of the contractor pre-construction tasks

False

Estimating is used in BIM as a sixth dimension

False

Ethics decisions are always either black or white

False

Ethics is innate; it cannot be taught

False

Field observations are useless for tracking quality

False

Final payment is usually made before final submittals

False

Goals for the construction team should be set by the superintendent alone

False

Hiring is unimportant regarding company ethics

False

Inspection is not needed when determining quality

False

It is best to calculate productivity from the RSMeans book

False

Knowing the contract will not help you when it comes to a change order

False

Litigation is the preferable solution to disputes

False

Most industrial contractors sub out around 90% of the work

False

Our guest lecturer, Rudy Comeaux, works for Turner Industries

False

Our guest speaker on residential construction was Michael Casteneau

False

Our guest speaker was Marc Bourgeois, President of Brown Eagle Construction Co

False

Palmisano does not use Post-It stickies on its construction projects

False

Palmisano uses ProBuild for its field management

False

Permits are not part of the execution plan

False

Quality is the most important thing for a contractor on a project

False

Removing and reworking incorrect work costs approximately twice that of doing it right the first time

False

Retainage is a penalty amount kept by the owner

False

Scheduling addresses "how much" and "what"

False

Substantial completion is when the project is completely paid

False

Superintendent responsibilities include processing pay applications

False

Testing of materials is part of Quality Assurance, not Quality Control

False

The LSU group was awarded the project as low bidder

False

The class chose a profit of eight percent

False

The critical path is the network path with the most floats

False

The guest lecturer, John Manion, works for Boh Brothers

False

The guest lecturers on Technology work for Parkinson Construction

False

The network CPM is ideal for showing the owner the status of the project

False

The network logic stage comes before the sequence stage when producing a schedule

False

The preconstruction conference should be among only the contractor and owner

False

The quality of the work force does not impact performance

False

The status of productivity is unimportant in management of a project

False

There were seven subcontractors bidding on the overhead doors

False

Unforeseen conditions do not justify a change order

False

"BIM" stands for Building Information Modeling

True

A change order means accepting more risk

True

A clean site equals a safe site

True

A construction project should be monitored to assure contract compliance

True

Activity on Node (AON) is the most common network diagram used in construction

True

BIM allows building a project in a virtual world before actually building it

True

BIM is a good tool for communicating with the owner

True

BIM is a good tool for presentations

True

BIM is used mostly in commercial construction

True

Building code inspections are part of Quality Control

True

Change orders may arise from regulatory compliance

True

Changes are inevitable

True

Commissioning is part of construction close-out

True

Completion date forecasts are part of management reports

True

Construction impact issues may include dust control

True

Contract administration is managing the conditions of the contract

True

Cost control requires documentation

True

D.R. Horton built 41,000 houses in 2016

True

D.R. Horton has a mortgage division

True

D.R. Horton's reputation was built on word-of-mouth

True

Deliveries and inspection of materials are superintendent responsibilities

True

Documentation includes material delivery tickets

True

Durations have to do with how long an activity will take

True

Equipment is one of the scopes to consider when pricing a change order

True

Establishment of site rules is one of the purposes of the preconstruction conference

True

Ethical violations should be addressed by management

True

Ethics has to do with what is right and wrong

True

Ethics starts at the top

True

Everyone in a company needs to "buy in" to the company ethics

True

Final payment is part of contract close-out

True

Interns at D.R. Horton first meet altogether in Fort Worth at the home office

True

It is a good idea to have diversity in abilities on a construction team

True

It is the will to prepare to win that separates success from failure

True

Key performance indicators measure performance against the goals

True

Marc called the summary sheet (shown on the screen) a "top sheet"

True

Meetings with subcontractors should be at least weekly

True

Mini-schedules are used for more detail on an item of work

True

One of Palmisano's core markets is restorations

True

One of the objectives of QA/QC is doing the job correctly the first time

True

Operation and maintenance manuals are part of contract close-out

True

Palmisano self-performs concrete work

True

Palmisano uses Bluebeam for estimating

True

Palmisano uses Primavera P6 for its scheduling

True

Palmisano uses a Job Box on its construction sites

True

ProCore is a construction management program

True

Procurement activities are associated with obtaining materials and equipment

True

Punch list is part of construction close-out

True

Quality is "meeting or exceeding the requirements established in the design documents"

True

Quality is determined by the owner's expectations

True

Quality is meeting the acceptance criteria 100% of the time

True

Scheduling is used in BIM as a fourth dimension

True

Selection of subcontractors is part of Quality Assurance, not Quality Control

True

Subcontractor performance is important in evaluating project performance

True

Submittals include shop drawings

True

Superintendent responsibilities include subcontractor coordination

True

Team activities include identifying who has what responsibilities

True

The Chicken Coop was so big it required an overhead crane

True

The competing bidders were Bama, Ole Miss, and Auburn

True

The example bid project was The LSU Chicken Coop

True

The payment procedures should be discussed at the preconstruction conference

True

The presenter's first rule regarding changes to the work is "First, do no harm"

True

The primary problem with a bar chart is the lack of interconnectivity of the work items

True

The primary tool for planning is the schedule

True

The three primary ethical directives are loyalty, honesty, and responsibility

True

There are legal implications to consider when doing a change order

True

There are three project close-out reports

True

Time is one of the scopes to consider when pricing a change order

True

Training is part of Quality Assurance, not Quality Control

True

When the plan doesn't work, stop and re-plan

True


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