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Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) - ANSWER 1997 regulations changed allowing design build procurement
Florida Law 1997 - ANSWER QBS could be used in Design Build
Construction Management Association of American - ANSWER Formed 1982, Provided a service not a delivery method, they held no liability and it added a third contract.
CM at Risk Disadvantages - ANSWER 2 Contracts, 2 Conflicting Agendas leading to change orders
CM at Risk Advantages - ANSWER Early GC involvement = cost info earlier to prevent budget overruns. Drives to a better schedule to mitigate selections and procurement schedule. Design and construction overlap. Good for complex phasing and schedule constraints. Allows for Value Engineering.
CM as Agent/Advisor - ANSWER Add on Services, No liability, can be used in any delivery method
"At-Risk" in CM at Risk - ANSWER Liable for construction cost, quality and schedule as well precon advice. NOT LIABLE FOR DESIGN.
Disadvantages of Design Bid Build - ANSWER Owner carries all risk, No engagement b/t architect or contractor allowing no creativity or innovation leaving VE as an afterthought.
Advantages of Design Bid Build - ANSWER Familiar, Suited for "lowest price" competitive bidding, No legislation hurdles, Owner highly involved in design.
DBIA began - ANSWER 1993 by Haskell
CMAA, 1982 - ANSWER Construction Management Association of American
First DBIA Public Project - ANSWER School project in Indiana 1968
American Institute of Constructors (AIC) - ANSWER 1971 formed for professional certification for a constructor.
Kansas City Hyatt Regency Collapse - ANSWER Deadly structural collapse, increased insurance premiums for errors and omissions insurance and general liability insurance. Shifted risk to subs after this.
Professional CM - ANSWER Independent entity that manages design and construction process acting as an agent or advisor to the owner. The may manage multiple prime contracts and provide preconstruction services.
CURT - ANSWER Formed in 2000 to help create competitive advantage for construction users in the marketplace.
Lean Construction - ANSWER Projects should be managed as a whole process rather than as a collection of independent elements and activities. A Procedure for Managing Production.
Relational Contracting - ANSWER The relationship of the contract and the products and services (transactional) aspects of the contract.
Alliance Contracting - ANSWER Similar to relational contracting. Cooperative model
Key Characteristics to Design Build Delivery - ANSWER 1 - Solicitation/Basis of Award 2 - Team Approach 3 - DB Entity 4 - Risk Management 5 - Performance Requirements 6 - Who controls design details 7 - Design-Cost Relationship 8 - Integrated Design Build Scheduling 9 - Contracting Approach
Design Entity - Order of Most Common - ANSWER 1 - Contractor Led 2 - Integrated 3 - Designer Led (most often engineering) 4 - Joint Venture or Developer Led
Does the Spearin Doctrine apply in DB? - ANSWER NO - Design Builder warrants plans and specifications, you cannot seek for errors and omissions insurance.
Functional Requirements - ANSWER BIG Picture to help develop performance requirements. Overall goals, constraints and challenges.
Performance Criteria - ANSWER Must be included w/ performance requirements so that you can determine if the project performs as intended. Examples: Written Standards, Field and Lab Tests, 3rd Party Calcs, On-site Mock-ups and Manufacturers Warranty.
Two Stage Procurement - ANSWER 1 - Shortlist using QBS 2 - Choose off of Best Value
Fixed Price/Best Design - ANSWER Owner discloses project budget and then only evaluates the technical proposal using a criteria matrix.
Standard Care of Warranties - ANSWER Performance based standards obligate the DB to warranty the construction and design.
Draw-Build - ANSWER A Form of Bridging, 35% or more of design is complete. Price Based Solicitation.
Progressive Design Build - ANSWER Two part contract. Part A: QBS solicitation where designer designs 60-70% for a lump sum amount. Part B: Triggers completion of design and construction.
Technical Transfusion or Technical Leveling - ANSWER Risks to BAFO or Equivalent Design/Low Bid
Enhancement Criterion - ANSWER Evaluation Item on a design-build RFP that involves something the owner wants to see improved. May include bridging documents. Given quality points.
Project Improvement Strategy - ANSWER Compete on basis of design improvements to bridging documents. Price is divided by quality points to get the price PER quality point.
Design Criteria Design Build - ANSWER 5-25% design complete, given programming and scope. Design Build team must provide a complete design solution.
Preliminary Design Build - ANSWER 20-35% = Bridging. Included in the RFP and proposers are expected to use. Bridging architect holds no liability.
Design risks in design build - ANSWER 1 - Design Services = accuracy, design delivery, designing to budget.
Aspects of culture you can see - ANSWER All of the above (literature, manners, language, history)
Australia is one of the most urbanised countries of the world with: - ANSWER 89% people living in cities
The type of market entry that requires more control but higher risks too is:- ANSWER Direct foreign investment Arguments for globalization - ANSWER --Economies perform better w/ improved living standards --Better healthcare --Reduced cost, increased access to goods --Interdependence --Environmental awareness and better technology
Arguments for and against globalization-- ANALYSIS Arguments against globalization -- ANSWER -- Restructuring causes skills loss, job loss --Migration, brain drain (Philippines), labour conditions --Uncompetitive economies w infant industries; vulnerability to downturns --Migration, cigarettes, pollution = health impact --Mono-culture, land clearing Total trade in goods and services - ANSWER -- $608 billion --Since 2006, total trade values have increased by average 6.4% per annum while volumes have increased 4.8% per annum --2011 trade surplus
Existing FTA's - ANSWER -- ASEAN-Australia-NZ --Chile FTA --NZ Closer Economic Relations --US FTA --Malaysia FTA --Singapore FTA --Thailand FTA
Guanxi - ANSWER Relationship before business
Major imports - ANSWER --Traditionally sophisticated manufacturing --Recently less so
Main export destinations - ANSWER 1. China
- Japan
- Kore
- India
- US
Main import sources - ANSWER 1. China
- US
- Japan
- Singapore
- Germany
How many of Australia's top 10 export markets are Asian? - ANSWER 8
--Make prices reflect all costs; internalize externalities
Ross Garnaut - ANSWER --Commissioned by the government to provide an independent update to the 2008 Climate Change Review --Independent expert adviser to the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee
How much electricity will the Macarthur Wind Farm produce? ANSWER --420 MW, powering 220,000 homes --Takes Australia's total wind energy output to 50%
What committee vets FDI in Australia? - ANSWER --AAAC --Foreign Investment Review Board recommends --Assets more than $231 million need prior approval, as do offshore company takeovers, direct investments by governments, and purchase of Australian real estate
Largest shares in FDI in Australia: - ANSWER --Mining --Manufacturing --Finance/insurance
Market entry strategies - ANSWER Least to most control, risk: --Internet --Exporter --Importer --Distributor --Direct sales --Licensing/franchising --Strategic alliance --Joint ventures/consortia
--Direct foreign investment
How many disabled people are supported by government business services? - ANSWER 18,
Largest share of primary disability in Australia - ANSWER Intellectual disability
Disability Support Pension - ANSWER $310 per week
Exemption 16 - ANSWER Government procurement protocol that forbids preference for ADEs
3M size - ANSWER --88,000 employees --70+ countries --70% overall sales outside US; decentralized production
NPVI - ANSWER --New Product Vitality Index --60%
3M's business divisions - ANSWER --Consumer --Electronics/energy --Healthcare --Industrial --Safety/graphics
3M decisionmaking structure - ANSWER --Matrix format by product division and country --Very decentralized --Weighted in favor of regional autonomy for product development
Alexa - ANSWER Amazon-owned statistical processing (SIP)
Westpac size - ANSWER --40,000 employees --12.5 million customers --Oldest Aussie bank, instituted pre-federation by NSW gov. --Top 5 global bank by market cap.
Carbon price - ANSWER $23 fixed for first few years
Government carbon permit units - ANSWER --Kyoto: Assigned Amount Units (AAU) --EU: EUAs --NZ: NZUs --Australia: ACUs
Accepted carbon offset units - ANSWER --International: CERs, ERUs --Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs)
LEPID - ANSWER Liable Entities Public Information Databse
Internet advertising in Australia may be expected to surpass: - ANSWER A and B only (free to air TV or newspapers)
Captain Cook claimed to have discovered Australia for Great Britain in the year: - ANSWER 1770
The British fleet first arrived in Sydney in: - ANSWER 26th January, 1788
Australia became a Commonwealth in the year: - ANSWER 1901
ANZAC day is celebrated and remembered by Australians to honour: - ANSWER The fallen soldiers during World War 1 at Gallipoli
Australian exports are too highly reliant on: - ANSWER Resources
Austrade operates in: - ANSWER 50 countries
Australia's most valuable resource is: - ANSWER Water
Australia is lagging behind in infrastructure in all of the following areas: - ANSWER *All of the above, telecommunications, road, rail, water catchment
Australasia - ANSWER Australia, NZ, New Guinea, New Caledonia
Oceania - ANSWER Australia, NZ, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, etc.
APAC - ANSWER East Asia + Southeast Asia + Oceania
NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT - ANSWER Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Canberra, Darwin
What % of land is suitable for agriculture? - ANSWER 6%
What size is the new marine reserve network? - ANSWER 36% the size of Australia
How much coast-line is in Australia? - ANSWER 30,000km, 11,000+ beaches (Nigel's
Australia GDP per capita - ANSWER $680,000 USD, ranked #5 in the world
When is the Melbourne Cup? - ANSWER 2nd Tuesday in November, public holiday since 1861
Dutch explorers - ANSWER --The Duyfken, 1606, Cape York, QLD (William Jansz) --The Leeuwin, 1627, Southwest WA --The Batavia, 1629, WA Coast --Abel Tasman, 1642, Van Dieman, TAS
English explorers - ANSWER --The Roebuck, 1699, WA Coast (William Dampier) --The Endeavor, 1770, Botany Bay, NSW (James Cook)
James Matra - ANSWER -- --New Yorker and strategic visionary aboard the Endeavor --Recommended that American loyalists and British convicts settle --Searched for international commercial linkages
Arthur Philip - ANSWER --First governor of Australia --Lost tooth considered to be a sign of leadership by Aboriginals
Matthew Flinders - ANSWER --First to sail around Australia, 1804 --First map of Australia --Died at age 40 due to poor health and imprisonment
John Macarthur - ANSWER -- --British army officer, businessman, designer, and settler
--First to promote agriculture --Died of insanity; credit to wife Elizabeth
William Bligh - ANSWER -- --Harsh NSW governor, famed for Mutiny on the Bounty --Spurred Rum rebellion --Undermined by Macarthur --Arrested in his home but acquitted by Britain
Lachlan Macquarie - ANSWER -- --Replaced Bligh --Reformed colony and set foundation for Sydney
Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth - ANSWER -- --Explored the West to find fertile land --Crossed the Blue Mountains
Gold Rush - ANSWER --1851 onward --Gold first discovered by Edward Hardgraves at Bathurst, NSW --Stimulated railway and road development
Eureka Rebellion - ANSWER -- --Work conditions at issue --Long term mateship and democratic ideals developed
James Stephens - ANSWER -- --Trade Union Leader led stonemason's strike for 8 hour day
Women's suffrage -- ANSWER --1894 SA --1902 nationally --One of the first, a year after NZ White Australia Policy - ANSWER --1901- --Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 favoed white Brits and used dictation tests to exclude unwanted immigrants --Pacific Islanders Labourer's Act banned Pacific Islanders from working in Australia Andrew Fisher - ANSWER --Labor PM, 1908- --Established ACT and Northern Territory --Established Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1912 --Trans-Australian Railway John Monash - ANSWER -- --WW1 General who paved the way for victory --hating the War, but then applied technology and recon
Commonwealth Electoral Act - ANSWER -- --Forced voting.
Flying Doctor Service - ANSWER -- --Rev John Flynn.
General MacArthur - ANSWER - Supreme Commander Allied Forces in SWPA --Supported Australia defence from key US resource
Battle of Coral Sea - ANSWER - --Battle That saved Australia
Ben Chifley-ANSWER- -Labor PM - 1946- populate or perish Campaign --Snowy Mountain Hydro scheme with 100k immigrations from 30 different nationalities Robert Menzies - ANSWER --Liberal PM for 18 years, 1949- --Longest period of economic prosperity --Developed Canberra and 8 universities --ANZUS treaty, 1951 1967 Historic Referendum - ANSWER --2/3 majority required --Repealed discrimination against Aborigines in constitution Gough Whitlam - ANSWER --Labor PM, 1972- --Fast reformer --National health service, higher education, abolished death penalty, ended White Australian policy, reformed legal code --Constitutional crisis led to "The Dismissal"
Aboriginal Land Rights Act - ANSWER --1976, Malcolm Fraser years --Allowed land reclamation on basis of traditional association --50% of NT, including half of Kakadu National Park
Hawke Keating era - ANSWER --1983- --Keating as Hawke's Treasurer, then PM --Floated the dollar --Deregulated banks --Universal superannuation
Lars and Jens Rasmussen - ANSWER Danish brothers who founded Google Maps platform in Australia in 2003
