CROSS COUNTRY

PIPELINE

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 Cross Country Pipeline
A cross is running across 24kms length. The project is been aplitted into 5 phases and in each
phase the work is started currently. The duration for each activity are found out. Draw the network
diagram. Find the project completion date. The start date of the project is

01/09/2001. The activity details are listed below.

ID Activity Description Preceded By

1 Start Of Project -
2 Survey – 1 1
3 Cleaning & Clearing Debris - 1 2
4 Marking - 1 3
5 Clearance Of Drawing – 1 4
6 Indenting for Pipes - 1 5
7 Trenching – 1 4
8 Stringing Of Pipes - 1 6
9 Welding Of Pipes - 1 8
10 Inspection & Testing Of Joints – 1 9
11 Sand Blasting & Black Coating – 1 10
12 Lowering Of Pipes - 1 7,11
13 Tie – in Joint - 1 12
14 Inspection & Testing Of Joints After Lowering – 1 13
15 Sand Blasting & Black Coating After Lowering – 1 14
16 Back Filling – 1 15
17 Cleaning the Pipes - 1 16
18 Pressure Testing Of Pipes – 1 17
19 Repairing of Joints (if necessary) - 1 18
20 Clearing the Site - 1 17,18

The activities 2 – 20 are common for all the phases. Apart from this there are seven more
activities. They are:

ID Activity Description Preceded By

21 Final Cleaning of Pipes 4
22 Final Pressure testing for the full 24 Km. Long Pipe 5
23 Repairing of Joints 10
24 Commissioning of Project 10
25 Project handover 1
26 Doing Maintenance 7
27 Closing of Project office 2

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The duration of each phase of the activity are given below:

ID Phase I Phase I I Phase I I I Phase IV Phase V

2 4 4 4 4 3
3 7 7 7 7 5
4 3 3 3 3 2
5 1 1 1 1 1
6 1 2 1 1 1
7 10 10 10 10 8
8 6 6 6 5 5
9 20 25 24 22 22
10 15 16 16 14 15
11 10 10 10 10 6
12 18 19 17 16 14
13 19 22 18 20 17
14 8 9 10 7 6
15 3 3 3 3 2
16 10 10 10 10 8
17 5 5 5 5 3
18 7 7 7 8 5
19 4 4 4 4 4
20 2 2 2 2 2

Report Requirements:

The working days/week is taken as 6 days & the hours of work per day are 10 hours (8.00

AM – 6.00 PM). Find the project finish date. There is a lead-time of a days for activity 9 &
for activity 12 there is a lead time of 5 days each for its predecessor.

a) Find the total duration of the

project. b) Find the critical path in the
project.

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Cross Country Pipeline

The activities involved and their corresponding duration are listed in the module 1
workbook. The resource & cost for each activity are found out. Draw the network diagram.
Find the project completion date, resource & cost estimation. Use the constraints wherever
applicable. The start date of the project is 01/09/2001.

The constraints that are available for the project are discussed below.

a) The phase – II trenching has got delayed by 3 days due to local villagers
problem. b) In phase I,II,& IV due to the road crossing available to trenching in
certain parts

are done during night by special night duty team comprises of one engineer,
two supervisor, ten helpers, three welders, two fitters, one QC Engineer & one
QC supervisor. one black coating team comprising of one supervisor & four
helpers are also involved. Apart from this, the team has got one crane & one
excavator. Their work starts from 9.00 P.M. to 5.00 A.M. the next day. Phase –
I two days, phase –II three days & Phase IV one day.

c) Cost – engineerà900/d, supervisorà600/d, QC engineerà1000/d, QC

supervisor 600/d, Fitter 450/d, welder 550/d, Helper 200/d.

d) Due to the non clearance of papers from the police department some parts of
the trenching is get delayed in Phase III by a day.

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Resource Availability
Resource
Project manager (PM)
Resident Engineer (RE)
Personnel manager (PR)
Legal Offer (LO)
Account manager (AM)
Materials manager (MM)
Planning Engineer (PE)
Office assistant (OA)
Accountant (AC)
Store keeper (SK)
Time keeper (TK)
Transportation officer (TO)
Stores Assistant (SA)
Purchase Officer (PO)
Purchase Assistant (PA)
Civil Engineer (CE)
Quality Controller (QC)
Quality Supervisor (QS)
Engineer (Er)
Supervisor (S)
Fabricator (F)
Fitter (Ft)
Welder (W)
Electrician (E)
Mechanic (M)
Rigger (R)
Helper (h)
Driver(D)
Crane Operator(CO)
Excavator Operator(EO)
Crane(C)
Excavator (EX)
Jeep(J)
Welding Machine (WM)
Tool Set (TS)
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No of Units Cost/day (Rs.)
2 1200
1 800
1 800
1 700
1 700
1 1000
2 1000
3 200
1 400
1 200
1 400
1 500
1 150
1 300
1 200
4 800
3 900
3 500
5 800
8 500
7 400
7 350
12 450
5 350
3 350
35 150
30 125
9 200
5 250
5 250
5 750
5 750
9 500
12 750
- 300
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Resource Distribution

ID PM RE PR LO AM MM PE CE QC QS Er S F Ft W E M OA
2 - 1 - 1 - - - 1 - - - 2 - - - - - -
3 - - - - - - - 1 - - - 2 - - - - - -
4 - 1 - - - - - 1 - - - 2 - - - - - -
5 1 1 - - - - 1 - - - 1 - - - - - - 1
6 - 1 - - 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - - 2
7 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 - - - 2 - - - - - 2
8 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - - - 1 2 - 3 - - - 2
9 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 - - - 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 2
10 1 1 - - 1 1 1 - 2 2 - - - - 1 1 1 2
11 - - - 1 - 1 1 - - - - 1 - - - - - 1
12 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 - - - 1
13 - 1 - - - 1 1 - - - 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 1
14 - - - - - - - - 2 2 - - - - 1 1 1 1
15 - - - - - - - - - - - 1
16 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1 - - - 2 - - - - - 1
17 - - - - - 1 1 - - - 1 2 1 1 - - 1 1
18 1 1 1 1 - - 1 - 1 - 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1
19 - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - - 1 - - -
20 - 1 1 - 1 - 1 - - - - 1 - 1 - - - 1
21 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 - - - - 1 1 1 - - 1 1
22 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1
23 - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - - 1 1 - 1
24 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 - - - 1 - - - - - - 1
25 1 1 1 - - - 1 - - - 1 - - - - - - 1
26 - - - - - - 1 - 1 - - 1 - - - - - 1
27 - 1 1 1 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - 1

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ID AC SK TK TO SA PO PA R H D CO EO CR EX J WM TS WR
2 - - - - - - - - 6 1 - - - - 1 - - -
3 - - - - - - - - 10 1 - - - - 1 - - -
4 - - - - - - - - 8 1 - - - - 1 - - -
5 - - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - 1 - - -
6 - - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - 1 - - -
7 1 1 1 1 1 1 - - 16 1 - 1 - 1 1 - - -
8 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 7 2 1 - 1 - 2 - - -
9 1 1 1 1 2 - 2 8 7 2 1 - 1 - 2 2 2 -
10 1 1 - - 2 - - 2 4 1 - - - - 1 1 - -
11 1 1 1 - 1 - - 2 3 - - - - - 1 - - -
12 1 1 1 1 1 - - 8 7 2 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 -
13 1 1 1 1 1 - - 8 7 1 1 - 1 - 1 2 2 -
14 - 1 - - 1 - - 2 4 1 - - - - 1 1 - -
15 1 - 1 - - - - 2 3 1 - - - - 1 - - -
16 1 - 1 - - - - - 8 1 - - - - 1 - - -
17 1 1 1 - - - - 3 5 1 - - - - 1 - - -
18 - 1 - - - - - 3 5 2 - - - - 2 - 1 -
19 - - - - - - - - 3 1 - - - - 1 1 - -
20 - 1 - - - - - - 3 1 - - - - 1 - - -
21 - 1 - - - - - 2 3 1 - - - - 1 - - -
22 - 1 - - - - - 1 3 1 - - - - 1 - - -
23 - 1 - - - - - - 2 1 - - - - 1 1 - -
24 - - - - - - - - 1 2 - - - - 2 - - -
25 - - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - 1 - - -
26 - - - - - - - - 2 1 - - - - 1 - - -
27 - - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - 1 - - -

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Report Requirements

The working days/week is taken as 6days and the house of work per day is 10
hours(8.00AM–

6.00PM). Find the project finish date and also which sources are over allocated &
after leveling. Find the project finish date. Finally after learing leveling & the
annual leveling.

a) Find the total cost of the project.

b) Before doing the progress obtain the report of one-week look-

ahead schedule. c) Also obtain the list of activities assigned to the
Civil Engineer.

d) The progress is done as shown in the table given below.

e) After doing the progress get the two-week look-ahead report.

f) Analyse the tracking progress using graphical reports & also find the Earned
Value

Analysis. Find whether the project is ahead or behind the schedule.

ID 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
% Comp 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 75 60 50 40 25

ID 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
% Comp - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Find the total cost, which has been expended & also find the
remaining cost for completing the project.

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