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THE PROPOSED TITLE OF MY REPORT WILL BE:

Optimising construction projects through the application of project
management principles: A case study of reclamation civil works at the Ahafo
mine.
SYNOPSIS OF PROPOSED PROJECT:
The Ahafo mine is an operating mine in the portfolio of the US-based
Newmont Mining Corporation, one of the largest gold mining companies in
the world. The mine is enjoined by corporate and statutory requirements to
rehabilitate areas disturbed through operations of the mine; which occurs on
an annual basis as projects with defined objectives. The
rehabilitation/reclamation is executed in two phases, comprising the civil
works and revegetation phases, with the former being the focus of this study.
This recurring project is executed utilizing a framework of project
management to achieve three prime objectives; completion to schedule,
scope and budget. All three prime goals are not consistently achieved, with
the various elements in each stage of the project lifecycle not systematically
implemented to the later with its resultant success.
The study will seek to analyse the life cycle of the reclamation civil work
project; identify the various bottlenecks at each stage impeding achievement
of the objectives; propose remedial actions based on principles of project
management and a system to ensure consistent application of the actions
therein.
Existing literature from various sources will be reviewed, however the main
reference will be Lock, Dennis. Project Management (9th ed.) 2007.
For this study, data will be gathered on various elements of the project
impacting on the schedule, scope and budget over the period 2012 to 2014.
The data will seek to corroborate the problem statement and ideally support
the solutions to be identified.