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Boston Harbor Project Analysis

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority was responsible for the Boston Harbor Project, which involved planning, designing, constructing, and starting up a $3.6 billion wastewater treatment system to serve over 2 million people in the Boston metropolitan area. A dedicated in-house team and Program/Construction Manager were established to focus solely on the project and bring a systematic management approach. One of the major contributions of the Construction Manager was planning for site-wide support services contracts. Effective management of the construction schedule was a key element to controlling costs. The most important lesson learned was to integrate constructability and operability concerns into the design process.

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Boston Harbor Project Analysis

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority was responsible for the Boston Harbor Project, which involved planning, designing, constructing, and starting up a $3.6 billion wastewater treatment system to serve over 2 million people in the Boston metropolitan area. A dedicated in-house team and Program/Construction Manager were established to focus solely on the project and bring a systematic management approach. One of the major contributions of the Construction Manager was planning for site-wide support services contracts. Effective management of the construction schedule was a key element to controlling costs. The most important lesson learned was to integrate constructability and operability concerns into the design process.

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ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITCNICA DEL LITORAL

FACULTAD DE INGENIERA EN CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA

Construccin

Homework#1

Reinaldo Salazar
01-11-16

Give a short answer to the following questions, related to the Case of Study:

1. Which is the independent state authority responsible for this project?

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA).

2. Give a brief project description.

The Boston Harbor Project (BHP) is one of the largest wastewater projects ever undertaken in the United
States. The project involves the planning, design, construction and start-up of a vast new wastewater
treatment system costing $3.6 billion. Except for final paving and landscaping, the project is complete as
of December 2000.

3. What is the scope of the Project?

To provide secondary treatment of wastewater generated by more than 2 million residents and over 5,500
businesses in the greater Boston metropolitan area.

4. What are the Project Constraints?


Schedule constraints
Site constraints
5. What are the advantages in creating a dedicated in-house team?
Prevent the project from consuming the resources of existing engineering and construction staff.
Focus the full attention of a specific group of individuals on the harbor project rather than involving
staff with multiple responsibilities.
Provide the opportunity for the MWRA to recruit personnel with the needed program management
skills from within and outside MWRA.
6. Why a Program/Construction Manager (P/CM) was incorporated into the management structure?

To bring an organized, systematic approach to managing the program from preconstruction planning and
design through start-up and acceptance of the new facilities.

7. Which was one of the major contributions made by the CM, and why?

One of the major contributions made by the CM was the planning for site-wide construction support
services contracts such as: transportation, security, concrete supply, etc. This was very important because
of the sites remote location and the restrictions placed upon the authority to mitigate the projects
impact on neighborhood communities. With a substantial pre-construction planning effort, the difficulties
posed by working on an island-site have been overcome.
8. What was a key element in controlling the cost of the Boston Harbor Project?

A key element in controlling the cost of the Boston Harbor Project has been effective management of the
projects construction schedule.

9. Of the lessons learned in this Project, which one you consider the most important, and why?

In my opinion the most important lesson was to integrate constructability and operability concerns into
the design process because I think the designer should worry about the designs to be feasible, so the
people that is going to build the project does not have any troubles later in the construction. Linking
construction with design was definitely a good idea.

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