This case is based on a project introduced in Chapter 6 (p. 209). You will need to use the project plan created in the Ventura Baseball Stadium case to complete this assignment.

Ventura Baseball Stadium is a 47,000-seat professional baseball stadium. G&E Company began construction on June 10, 2019, and will complete it on February 21, 2022. The stadium must be ready for the opening of the 2022 regular season. G&E would accrue a $500,000-per-day penalty for not meeting the April 3, 2022, deadline.

The project started on time and was progressing well until an accident occurred during the pouring of the lower bowl. Two workers were seriously injured, and the activity was delayed four weeks while the cause of the accident was investigated and the site cleared to proceed.

The president of G&E Company, Percival Young, is concerned about the delay of the project. The project began with roughly six weeks of cushion between the expected completion deadline and the imposed deadline of April 3 (opening day). Now there is only a two-week cushion with over a year's worth of work still to be completed. He has asked you to consider the following options to reduce the duration of the project and restore some of the time buffer that has been lost.

• Assign overtime to complete the installation of seats in 120 days, not 140 days.
• Assign overtime to complete the infrastructure in 100 days, not 120 days.
• Introduce a start-to-start lag whereby construction of the roof begins 70 days after the start of building roof supports.
• Introduce a start-to-start lag whereby installing the scoreboard can start 100 days after the start of construction of the upper steel bowl.
• Introduce a start-to-start lag whereby installing seats can start 100 days after the start of both pouring the main concourse and constructing the upper steel bowl.

Complete the following:

1. Do you agree with each of the options above to reduce the duration of the project? Why or why not?
2. Write a short memo to Young, detailing your recommendation and rationale. Please be detailed in your explanation, including reference and in-text citation