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You have identified all the construction processes involved in you selected project in PART 2 and 3.

PART 4 assumes that the project will be re-executed, and requires you to:

· Propose changes to the client’s needs that will lead to changes to your group’s original choice of Procurement Route, and fully justify why the original procurement route has to be changed and why the new procurement route will be used

· Discuss how the changes in client’s needs and the change in the procurement route will impact the Construction Plan with full justification

· Discuss how the other project aspects will be impacted due to all the changes, for example, considering project team communication, stakeholder management, and the management of your project in general

Make the discussions and justifications with reference to relevant sources (e.g. web site, class reading material, published reports, peer reviewed journal, text books). [Max 8,000 characters]

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Changes in Client Requirements
During the pre-construction stage, the client has come up with an idea of making the building more eco-friendly and hence, more requirements are rolled out. The following changes are proposed by the client.
· Eco-friendly materials
Few suggestions made by the clients is listed below. Moreover, the client is also open for use of other suggestions pertaining to green building materials
· Use mud brick / rammed earth for the construction of walls instead of bricks.
· Replacement of steel rebars with bamboo reinforcement.
· Red mud based composite door shutters in place of timber and plywood shutters
· Use of pozzolanic materials to partially replace the cement
· Orientation of the building to achieve energy efficiency
Change the orientation of the building in such a way that it takes maximum benefit of the sunlight and wind, in order to use minimum artificial lighting and air-conditioning. The proposal is to increase the energy efficiency of the building and to decrease the dependency on HVAC system.
· Installation of Solar panels
The client is proposing to make the building 100% self-sufficient in energy production, with an option to switch to the power supply provided by the local energy company only during adverse weather and adverse conditions
· Pre-pone the date of completion
Client is proposing to move the commissioning date back by three weeks.
· Budget constraints
The additional requirements are to be accommodated only at an additional cost of 10% of the originally proposed budget.
Change in Procurement System
Originally, traditional procurement system has been adopted. In this method, a contractor with lowest bid is chosen to ensure good design quality within the given budget and completion time. This method has some drawbacks such as longer preparation time for design and eventual probability of delay in start date. Moreover,

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