Case study: You are assigned to prepare a report on Operations and Project Manag
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Question
Case study:
You are assigned to prepare a report on Operations and Project Management by conducting a research on Dubai Metro project of RTA in Dubai, UAE. You are also expected to prepare a PLC with appropriate documentation to extend the services of Dubai Metro in Sharjah.
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is the government organization responsible for providing and managing all surface transportation in the emirate of Dubai, UAE. The RTA completed the construction of one of its major projects, the “Dubai Metro,” on 9 September 2011. The Dubai Metro, with its 75 km and 47 stations, is the largest driverless metro system in the world. The Dubai Metro employed five main contractors, over 160 sub-contractors, and more than 30,000 workers. The project covered many varying disciplines, including civil, architectural, electrical, mechanical, electronics, communications, and software, among others. The first line of the Dubai Metro was completed in a record period of 49 months. You are expected to research on the challenges that the RTA faced in the different phases of this mega project, namely: concept and studies; design; tendering; construction; and finally, operations and maintenance. Based on your research and discussion in the classroom interaction, prepare a project report on “Dubai Metro”.
Q: Apply each stage of the PLC towards an Extension of Metro to Sharjah project. A business case, and a project plan that includes a WBS must also be developed for the project. Kindly aswer specific to develop a detailed business cases study and work around a PLC that can be implemented into the organization to improve the extension towards Sharjah. )
Explanation / Answer
Project Scope:
Extend the existing Dubai Metro till Sharja with in next 45 months
Lessons Learnt from previous Project Phase -1 of Dubai Metro:
The Dubai Metro employed five main contractors, approximately 160 sub-contractors, and more than 30,000 workers. The project covered experts from civil, architectural, electrical, mechanical, electronics, communications and software.
Challanges faced during Concept and Study:
Dubai being scatered cuty over a large geography of clustered popolation settlement, it was difficult to initially justify the concept of metro. Majority of population were expats and contract workers with varied lifestyle. So preparing for study was challenge
Design Phase:
The biggest challenges during design phase are
1. Soil condition being mostly desert
2. vaiability of drivers
3. Safety
4. Seemless integration to near by living areas
5. Connctivity
Tendering
Major challenges during tendering were
1. Selection of right contractor
2. Knwoeldge of selection
3. Budget and execution methodology
Contrating:
Once the tender was finalised and contracting was signed, the land availability , layout and necessary road blockagaes/aquisitions were needed to be completed on time and hand over to the constructing company in order to ensure timely start of work
Project Life cycle for Extension of Metro to Sharja:
1. Initiation phase:
Prepared a detailed project scope document covring all the aspects of project including the requirement, tendering process, contractr selection process , execution timeline expected, budget allocated, expectations from contract
2. Planning phase:
Prepare a detailed working plan with timeline, work break down structure to include route map, number of stations, expected area of reach, land required and time for quisition, cost of implementations, type of coaches needed, support from government of UAE and necessary approvals from varioud departments to execute the project smoothly
Summary:
With the learnings form previus phase 01 and meticulus planning to cover various aspects listed in abouve can help complete the second phase successfuly