COSC 153 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024 NEW UPDATE
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COSC 153 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024 NEW UPDATE
What does the construction manager do asides form the technical skills? - Answer-have the ability to solve problems and make quality decisions
What percentage of design/build projects are led by contractors? - Answer-approximately 56%
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COSC 153 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2024 NEW UPDATE
What does the construction manager do asides form the technical skills? - Answer-have
the ability to solve problems and make quality decisions
What percentage of design/build projects are led by contractors? - Answer-
approximately 56%
Who selects project delivery? - Answer-the owner
Who is the chief engineer on a project while also reporting to the project manager? -
Answer-project engineer
Who matches daily and weekly activities with the overall schedule, as well as being the
companies representative as the site? - Answer-project superintendent
How is cost determined? - Answer-estimate or budget
Difference between at-risk and agency construction management? - Answer-at risk = 2
contracts (owner & manager, owner & designer)
What is an agreement where the designer and the contractor share in the financial risk
of a project? - Answer-Joint venture
What process is used to determine who gets the contract for public projects? - Answer-
open bid process
For private projects to take place in open bidding they must take what action? - Answer-
send out "invitation for bids" to numerous contractors
When it comes to placing bids, which selection method would work best when price is
the only criteria? - Answer-low-bid selection
What piece of legislation requires that qualifications based selections must be used to
purchase architecture and engineering services and that price negotiations are not a
consideration in the selection processes? - Answer-Brooks Act 1972
Today, bid runners (wait/do not wait) by phones with any last minute bids that may
come in to alter the number lower - Answer-do not wait
, What are some categories which a contractor must include when submitting a bidding
estimate? - Answer-all materials, equipment, labor, subcontracts, overhead, profit
necessary
A document, written by the owner, requesting pricing and a technical solution for design
and/or construction services - Answer-RFP (request for proposal)
The process in which an owner, based upon minimum financial, management, and
other qualitative data, determines whether a construction firm is fundamentally qualified
to compete for a certain project or a class of projects? - Answer-prequalification
Used with private projects and is not open to the public - Answer-closed bid
Public notice providing info regarding bidding procedures for public projects - Answer-
advertisement for bids
In ancient Egypt, architecture, engineering, and construction were all the responsibility
of one person, called? - Answer-master builder
5 sectors of the construction industry? - Answer-residential, commercial, heavy civil,
industrial, & environmental
3 primary players in an construction project? - Answer-owner, designers, & contractors
apartments, condos, & townhomes are referred to as? - Answer-multi-family dwellings
what 2 types of professionals are engaged in the construction process? - Answer-
Architects & engineers
who is the driving force behind the construction industry? - Answer-owners
Rule of 6? - Answer-No more than 6 people communicate with on one project
what is a written contract? - Answer-written on paper
what is a verbal contract? - Answer-an agreement that is spoken
3 categories of residential builders? - Answer-custom, small value, & production
builders
whats an exterior cladding system thats supported entirely by the frame of the building,
rather than being self-supporting or load bearing? - Answer-curtain wall
what is NAMC? - Answer-National Association of Minority Contractors
What was used to teach people certain skills in the middle ages? - Answer-guilds
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