Problems(result)
| Reasons(cause)
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A two-week delay in excavation
| The excavator broke down
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The machines drivers couldn’t start work until week 3.
| Excavation was delayed.
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Steel erectors had to wait for two weeks.
| Machine drivers hadn’t completed their work on time.
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Consequently, the cladding fixers could not start until week 17.
| Steel erectors were delayed by 2 weeks
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The bricklayers were working three weeks longer than expected.
| Bricks were in short supply during weeks 15 to 20
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The plumbers and the roofing contractor started three weeks later.
| The delay in brickwork
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Both the carpenters and the glaziers started one week late.
| In week 30 the joiners went on strike which was settled after one week.
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Decorating was delayed by one week.
| The wrong paint was delivered to the decorators
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By putting on extra men the building was completed on schedule.
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1. You are a general contractor working on the construction of a trade center. You’ve got a request from the building owner to inform him about the delay in constructing the building. You have to write a report including the information about:
- what has gone wrong on the building site
- what the reasons were
- what measures you are going to take to make up for the time lost
- when the construction will be completed/ finished
- show all the changes in the project schedule and attach it to the report.
To get the necessary information for the report fulfill the following tasks:
a. Study the table below and match the problems with the reasons. Use the project schedule to help you.