Case Description

The City of Toronto has progressed on so many fronts since the October 2019 municipal election saw a liberal-minded mayor elected to office. The dark, backward days of former Mayor Bobby Bored and his conservative, hawkish brother are a distant memory.

In addition to new public transit plans, the city moved quickly to initiate a project to replace its professional baseball stadium. The current stadium, built in the late 1980s is outdated and generally recognized as the worst professional stadium in North America.

The G&E Company is preparing a bid to build the new 74,000 seat Avignon Stadium (named after a beautiful town in southern France). The construction must start June 1, 2020, and be completed in time for the start of the 2024 season. A penalty clause of $100,000 per day of delay beyond April 20, 2024, is written into the contract.

Ben Keith, the president of the company, expressed optimism at obtaining the contract and revealed that the company could net as much as $5 million on the project. He also said if they are successful, the prospects for future projects are quite good since there is a projected renaissance in building classic baseball parks with modern luxury boxes.

Deliverables

1. Work Breakdown Structure (25-30 items)
   • Create WBS in MS Word using either tabular or chart form
   • Minimum 3 levels of work in your WBS (levels 1 and 2 are provided in the case)
   • Minimum 3 work packages at level 3
2. Detailed Project Schedule (Gantt Chart - 80-100 items)
   • First activity should be project name | your name | student number
   • Create activities from the work you created in the WBS
   • Include summary tasks
   • Task dependencies with proper links
     • At least 1 activity with Finish to Finish dependency
     • At least 1 activity with Start to Start dependency
   • Identify milestones
   • Resource details
     • Add the following work resources: Site Superintendent, Security Team, Demo Team (apply 500% to units), Concrete Team and Steel Workers
     • Add a cost resource called Inspections (add cost of $20,000)
   • Resources assigned to tasks
   • Calendar
   • Activity Table (below - for a baseline)
     • Some of the durations in the table are blank. You must decide on a duration to use for each of those activities
   • Expand activities to include sub-activities. The total number of activities of your project should be between 80-100 tasks.
3. Narrative
   • 150-250 words that describes the logic behind your WBS and MS Project File (do not repeat the question).