Examination in Construction Productivity Analysis
Examination in Construction Productivity Analysis
Examination in Construction Productivity Analysis
MANAGEMENT
1) You are the project manager for the transportation facility project of the DOTr.
Engr. Manahan, a project team manager, is confused about what QA is. Which of
the following best describes QA? Discuss briefly your answer: a) QA is quality
assurance for the overall project performance, b) QA is quality acceptance
according to scope verification, c) QA is quality assurance for the project
deliverable, d) QA is quality assurance for the project stakeholders.
2) You are the project manager for the road project of the DPWH, which must map
to industry standards in order to be accepted by the customer. You and your team
have studied the requirements and have created a plan to implement the
deliverables with the appropriate level of quality. Explain what process is this in
construction.
4) You are the project manager of the contractor of the World Bank funded project,
which requires quality that maps to their guidelines. During a quality audit, you
discover that a portion of the project work is faulty and must be done again. The
requirement to do the work is an example of which of the following? Explain your
answer. a) Cost of quality, b) cost of adherence, c) cost of non-conformance, d)
the cost of doing business
5) Your organization uses a total quality management as part of its quality assurance
program. Engr. Fidel Guevarra, a leader in your organization’s quality assurance
program, informs you that she will be reviewing your project to determine if your
project management activities comply with the total quality management
program. This is an example of which one of the following? a) Process analysis,
b) quality control mechanism, c) enterprise environmental factors, d) quality
audit. Explain your answer.
6) A project manager has elected not to enforce safety measures on his construction
project. One of the project team had been injured because of this oversight, and
the job site is closed until an investigation into the lack of safety measures is
completed. The project will now likely be late, be fined for the error, and will lose
profitability with the costumer. This is an example of which of the following? a)
risk, b) trigger, c) cost of poor quality, d) cost of quality. Explain briefly your
answer.
7) Engr. Guevarra is the project manager of the project. Quality audits of the
deliverables show several problems. Management has ask Engr. Guevarra to
create a chart showing the distribution of problems and their frequencies. Given
this, management wants which of the following? a) control chart, b) Ishikawa
chart, c) Pareto diagram, d) flowchart. Explain briefly your answer.
Part II:
A) The tools of modern quality management relate to problem solving through uniform
processes that provide information which leads to recognizing process changes and
correcting them to further analyze the productivity of the workers. Discuss at least four
tools in problem solving in productivity analysis and modern quality management.
B) Discuss briefly the construction quality assurance tools and techniques. Give an
example in each tools and techniques.