- Author
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O'Connor, J. T.
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Satori, T. R.
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Pugh, T. E.
- Title
- Navy Demonstration Project: Testbed for Selected CII Principles.
- Coporate
- University of Texas, Austin
- Report
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Research Report 22-11
December 1995
209 p.
- Keywords
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construction
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methodology
- Identifiers
- Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) approach to project management, characteristics of Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity (SIMA) projects, and the implementation of change; new tactics for project management; comparative analysis of SIMA project performance
- Abstract
- The Construction Industry Institute (CII) and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) initiated a research study in late 1988 for the purpose of demonstrating innovative managerial and technological principles developed by CII. The primary objective of the study was to assess the validity and applicability of selected CII principles. A secondary objective was to track lessons learned in the implementation of change. The U.S. Navy's Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity (SIMA) Project P-320 at Portsmouth, Virginia, was selected as the testbed for assessing the validity and applicability of selected CII principles. This project is a small-to-medium sized light industrial facility that houses shops for maintaining ship-board equipment. A SIMA project was selected because of the numerous SIMA projects previously constructed (and correspondingly, the existence of historical project performance data), and because of the special challenges it has historically presented to project managers. The six CII principles selected for implementaion and analysis included the following: Project Objectives, Scope Definition, Design Effectiveness, Team Building, Constructability, and Materials Management. The first three were implemented during the design phase of the SIMA project. The later three were targeted for implementation during the construction phase only.