Review Question Answers

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Building Industry

  1. Commercial Building, Infrastructure, Industrial, and Residential
  2. False
  3. a. Natural Gas Power Plant
    b. Commercial Building
    c. Residential
    d. Infrastructure
    e. Industrial
    f. Residential
    g. Infrastructure
    h. Commercial Building (Note that even though it will house residents, this is considered a commercial building)
  4. True
  5. False
  6. True

Chapter 2: The Lifecycle of a Building Project

  1. Plan Facility, Design Facility, Construct Facility, and Operate Facility
  2. False
  3. True
  4. True
  5. Schematic Design (SD), Design Development (DD), Construction Documentation (CD)

Chapter 3: Project Participants and Roles

  1. False
  2. True
  3. False
  4. True
  5. True

Chapter 4: Project Delivery Methods

  1. True (for this class – note that many people use different conventions)
  2. True

Chapter 5: Introduction to Construction Cost Estimating

  1. Rough Order of Magnitude; Square Foot; Assemblies; and Detailed
  2. Land Cost
  3. True
  4. 5,497
  5. False

Chapter 6: Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Cost Estimating

  1.  False
  2. $ 143 / SF
  3. 15,400 gross square feet (GSF)

Chapter 7: Modeled Square Foot (SF) Cost Estimating

  1. True
  2. True
  3. True
  4. True

Chapter 8: Assemblies Cost Estimating

  1. False
  2. True

Chapter 9: Unit Price Cost Estimating

Chapter 10: Procurement

Chapter 11: General Conditions and Project Staffing

Chapter 12: Introduction to Project Scheduling

Chapter 13: Network Scheduling

Chapter 14: Designing a Site Utilization Plan

Chapter 15: Value Engineering

Chapter 16: Risk Management

Chapter 17: Introduction to Project Management and Control

Chapter 18: Cost and Financial Management

 

Chapter 19: Schedule Management

 

 

Chapter 20: Quality Management

 

 

Chapter 21: Safety Management

 

 

Chapter 22: Managing Information for Projects

 

 

Chapter 23: Building Information Modeling

 

 

Chapter 24: Introduction to Lean Construction

 

 

Chapter 25: Managing an Organization

 

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