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Construction Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The time between the purchase date and delivery date of long-lead items.
Fast-Track(ing)
Completion Schedule
Long-Lead Time
Start-Up
2. The bidder who has submitted the lowest competitive proposal as determined by a cursory examination of the bids submitted.
apparent Low Bidder
Lien
Bid
Progress Payment
3. Also: Warranty/Guarantee Phase; Warranty Phase; Guarantee Phase A stipulated length of time following the construction phase - during which contractors are bonded to ensure that materials - equipment - and workmanship meet the requirements of their c
As-Built Drawings
Final Completion
Life-Cycle Cost
Occupancy Phase
4. An agreement by which a party accepts responsibility for fulfilling an obligation.
Guarantee
Specifications
Construction Schedule
Progress Meeting
5. Costs accruing from expended labor excluding the bonus portion of overtime - insurances - and payroll taxes.
Contract Documents
Direct Material Costs
Estimated Final Cost
CM Services
6. The term used to describe the use of the overlapping expertise of each team member during team decision making.
Long-Lead Time
Checks and Balances
Lump Sum Fee
Technical Specifications
7. A job title usually reserved for the administrative level person who supervises the work of an on-site contractor .
General Conditions (of the Contract for Construction)
Superintendent
As-Built Drawings
Estimated Final Cost
8. The initial Design Phase on an architectural project when the A/E delineates the owner's needs in a general way.
Superintendent
Schematic Design Phase
Specifications
Direct Material Costs
9. A fixed dollar amount which includes all costs of services including overhead and profit.
Performance Bond
Superintendent
Schematic Design Phase
Lump Sum Fee
10. The time between the purchase date and delivery date of long-lead items.
Lump Sum Fee
Change Order
Preliminary Design Phase
Long-Lead Time
11. A physical location where trade contractor proposals are fled the day before general contractor bids are to be received by an owner for pickup - opening - acceptance - or rejection by general contractors bidding the owner's project.
Technical Specifications
Bid Depository
Sub-subcontractor
Change Order
12. Check: Letter of Intent; Notice to Proceed A letter from an owner to a contractor stating that a contract has been awarded to the contractor and a contract will be forthcoming.
Guaranteed Maximum Price CM (GMPCM)
RFP (Request For Proposal)
Construction Budget
Notice of Award
13. Line-item amounts in the project budget - dedicated to specific cost areas where oversight is an inherent problem in project delivery.
Contingencies
Clerk-of-the-Work
Notice to Proceed
Superintendent
14. The continuous chain(s) of activities from project-start to project-finish - whose durations cannot be exceeded if the project is to be completed on the project-finish date. A sequence of activities that collectively require the longest duration to c
Fast-Track(ing)
Final Completion
Critical Path(s)
Owner's Representative
15. The list of contractors that have survived prequalification tests.
Milestone
Field Construction Manager
Approved Bidders List
Direct Costs
16. Detailed statements covering procedures - and quantitative and qualitative and qualitative information pertaining to material - products - and equipment to be incorporated into a project.
Specifications
Labor and Material Bond
Long-Lead Items
Superintendent
17. The documents which collectively form the contract between the contractor and the owner. They consist of the bidding documents less bidding information plus pre-award addenda and post-award Change Orders.
Approved Bidders List
Contract Documents
Preconstruction Phase
Approved Changes
18. Check: As-Built Drawings A set of contract document drawings - marked up as construction proceeds - which show the exact location - geometry - and dimensions of all elements of the constructed project as installed.
Drawings
Letter of Intent
Record Drawings
Reimbursable Expense
19. Also: Field CM; Level 3 Manager; Level 3 Person; Superintendent - Site Manager A person designated by the CM firm to interface with the owner's and A/E's representatives on the project team at the third management level. A person located at the site
Field Construction Manager
Milestone
Schematic Design Phase
Contract Administration
20. A technical review process; the close matching of engineering design to the value an owner derives from the design.
Construction Management
Occupancy Phase
Value Engineering
RFP (Request For Proposal)
21. Also: Account Codes; Codes of Accounts An alpha/numeric identification system for budget line items that ensures that project expenditures are properly debited/credited in the project budget as payments are made in behalf of the project.
Superintendent
Warranty
Chart of Accounts
Bid
22. The target cost of the project established by the owner and agreed to be achievable by the team. The Project Budget usually includes the cost of construction and the CM fee - plus any other line-item costs (land - legal fees - interest - design fees
Preliminary Design Phase
Project Budget
Conditions of the Contract
Milestone Schedule
23. The target cost figure covering the construction phase of a project. It includes the cost of contracts with trade contractors - construction support items other purchased labor - material and equipment - and the construction manager's cost but not th
Record Drawings
Changed Conditions
Construction Budget
Schedule of Values
24. A form of the CM system where the construction manager guarantees - in addition to providing ACM services - a ceiling price to the owner for the cost of construction.
Chart of Accounts
Guaranteed Maximum Price CM (GMPCM)
Substantial Completion
Warranty
25. All required phases prior to the start of construction.
Approved Changes
Direct Costs
Change Order
Preconstruction Phase
26. The cost of purchasing - installing - owning - operating - and maintaining a construction element over the life of the facility.
Approved Bidders List
Guarantee
Life-Cycle Cost
Checks and Balances
27. Also: Feasibility Phase The phase prior to the start of design.
Preliminary Design Phase
Sub-subcontractor
Pre-design Phase
Construction Budget
28. A contract held by an owner.
Performance Bond
Life-Cycle Cost
Lien
Prime Contract
29. Also: Warranty/Guarantee Phase; Warranty Phase; Guarantee Phase A stipulated length of time following the construction phase - during which contractors are bonded to ensure that materials - equipment - and workmanship meet the requirements of their c
Value Engineering
Progress Payment
Construction Management
Occupancy Phase
30. Changes of any nature in contract requirements which have been agreed upon through a change approval process and approved by the owner.
Professional Liability Insurance
Lien
Design-Build (D-B) Contracting
Approved Changes
31. An estimate of the cost still to be expended on a work-scope in order to complete it. The difference between the Cost to Date and the Estimated Final Cost.
Estimated Cost to Complete
Estimated Final Cost
Change Order
Construction Management
32. Also: As Builts; Check: Record Drawings Drawings produced during or after construction and amended to show the exact location - geometry - and dimensions of the constructed project. As-Built Drawings are not the same as Record Drawings.
Special Conditions
As-Built Drawings
Technical Specifications
Progress Payment
33. Check: Surety; Performance Bond A guarantee provided by a surety to pay claims against the owner from contractors and suppliers who have not been paid for labor - material - and equipment incorporated into the project.
Labor and Material Bond
Lump Sum Fee
Approved Bidders List
Shop Drawings
34. Also: Detailed Construction Schedule A graphic - tabular or narrative representation or depiction of the construction portion of the project- delivery process - showing activities and durations or activities in sequential order.
Lump Sum Fee
Construction Schedule
Field Construction Manager
Guaranteed Maximum Price CM (GMPCM)
35. Also: Supplementary Conditions Amendments to the General Conditions that change standard requirements to unique requirements - appropriate for a specific project.
Long-Lead Time
Special Conditions
Design-Build (D-B) Contractor
Approved Changes
36. Also: Field CM; Level 3 Manager; Level 3 Person; Superintendent - Site Manager A person designated by the CM firm to interface with the owner's and A/E's representatives on the project team at the third management level. A person located at the site
Construction Management
Design-Build (D-B) Contracting
Drawings
Field Construction Manager
37. Check: CM Project Manual Written information that augments the drawings. The Project Manual contains the General Conditions - Supplementary and Special Conditions - the Form of Contract - Addenda - Change Orders - Bidding Information and Proposal For
Project Manual
Bid Bond
Changed Conditions
Critical Path(s)
38. A contractor that provides design and construction services under a single responsibility contract to an owner .
Design-Build (D-B) Contractor
Project Team
Conditions of the Contract
General Contractor
39. Also: Concealed Conditions; Latent Conditions Conditions or circumstances - physical or otherwise - which surface after a contract has been signed and which alter the circumstances or conditions on which the contract is based.
Pre-design Phase
Changed Conditions
CM Services
Superintendent
40. Also: Concealed Conditions; Latent Conditions Conditions or circumstances - physical or otherwise - which surface after a contract has been signed and which alter the circumstances or conditions on which the contract is based.
Contract Document Phase
Changed Conditions
Approved Changes
Progress Payment
41. Check: Notice of Award; Letter of Intent A notice from an owner directing a contractor to begin work on a contract - subject to specific stated conditions.
Notice to Proceed
Commissioning
Design-Build (D-B) Contracting
Project Budget
42. The list of contractors that have survived prequalification tests.
Performance Bond
Approved Changes
As-Built Drawings
Approved Bidders List
43. A contractor who has a contract with a prime contractor.
Bid
Project Manual
Subcontractor
Estimated Final Cost
44. An estimate of the final cost of a work item based on its Cost to Date and the estimated cost to complete it. The sum of the Cost to Date and the Estimated Cost to Complete.
Estimated Final Cost
Clerk-of-the-Work
Design-Build (D-B) Contractor
Project Team
45. Material and equipment required for construction which have delivery dates too far in the future to be included in a contractor's contract at bid time. They are pre-purchased directly by the owner.
Estimated Cost to Complete
Long-Lead Items
Construction Budget
Fast-Track(ing)
46. The process of designing portions of a project while portions already designed are under construction. A series of controlled design-build sequences that collectively constitute a complete project.
Technical Specifications
Construction Management
Bid Depository
Fast-Track(ing)
47. The term used on architectural projects to describe the transitional phase from the Schematic Phase to the Contract Document during design.
Design Development Phase
Subcontractor
Notice of Award
Contract Documents
48. Selected strategic events of signal importance to progress used in the milestone schedule.
Milestone
Clerk-of-the-Work
Special Conditions
Construction Management
49. Applies to engineering projects; the initial design effort following signing of the owner; engineer agreement. It is followed by the Final Design Phase.
Guaranteed Maximum Price CM (GMPCM)
Owner's Representative
Prime Contract
Preliminary Design Phase
50. A person assigned to a project to represent the owner on the project team at one to the three management levels.
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