Driveway Renovation

first of all.

Hello class.

I hope you are all doing well.

My name's COlwyn and I conducted a project labeled driveway

renovation. So the goal of this project is to finish

off the landscaping surrounding the previously paved driveway by completing

a full driveway renovation.

This includes installing a proper drainage system with a catch

basin To efficiently allow the driveway to drain along well

with placing cloth and covering the area with 226" rock

along the south side.

We will place a retaining wall ensuring the wall is

leveled to the driveway and the final steps will include

installing a gate at the entrance along with cleaning up

the whole area to the project sponsors desire.

Now let me show you some photos and give you

an idea of what the site looked like prior to

renovation. Yeah.

As you can see, I'm standing in the middle of

the driveway and you see the retaining wall yet to

be built.

Sitting beside me.

As we move on to the next page, you'll see

another shot from a different angle just showing um where

we're about to start excavating and so on and so

forth. Now let's move on and go through our three

main stakeholders that we have to keep satisfied.

Doug Win, who was the project sponsor and requires an

update every day.

Shauna win who is the homeowner and does not allow

us to work past three p.m. And lastly, Cory Wynne,

who will be our main labour slash helper.

Therefore we must ensure he is happy to have this

project be a success All three bring in very big

importance. So let's get more into discussing the work that

needs to be done and the five key deliverables we

will aim to complete on time and of course with

quality in mind.

First we installed a catch basin that will require 25

ft of drainpipe properly sloped to allow drainage.

We will then cover the area with dirt, filter cloth

and lastly ornamental river rock to fill the area and

clearing it up.

Second, we excavated and installed a retaining wall that was

total of 100 and 30 square feet, including the inside

outside and to take offs.

Now we have issues with this as we needed it

to stay levels.

We adjusted the plans and leveled out the area with

ground rock, following by watering it down and for good

measure packing it down with a packer that allows us

to place the rocks warm by one at the same

level. The suggestion made it much easier to complete and

sped things up drastically when it came to the retaining

wall. Third, we sculptured the north end of the driveway

to allow for natural drainage falling by placing 420 square

feet of filter cloth and ornamental river rock to clean

up the area and cover everything.

Fourth, we will buy an install a gate to allow

the homeowner to keep the house more private small.

But the sponsor put great importance on this gate being

installed to his desire, which we did end up installing

and he was very satisfied.

Last but not least, we had to clean up the

entire area by pressure, washing and sweeping up all the

dirt and remains that were left behind.

This was much more work than we anticipated.

Mhm. Okay.

So every project has risks and we were able to

mitigate the risk by being prepared.

In our project meeting, we sat down with the project

sponsor and then let us know that we may encounter

gas, electrical or water lines will dig in.

So what we did to prepare for this was have

fortis BC come in prior to start and survey the

ground on top of that.

We will we notice that we will have to protect

against the bobcat wheels with all the rocks as the

pavement can be easily scratched and damaged for good.

We were successful in avoiding this risk by constantly broom

in the rock off of the pavement whenever equipment was

around. And lastly we needed the tools and materials on

time in order to meet the project sponsor requirements.

So we used a small portion of our budget and

ensured we got an early delivery from Bern Co.

Yeah. Now as we hop slides, we'll look at lessons

learned. So one of the lessons we learned was just

never to jump into the work.

Always have a plan and do your best to execute

that plan.

Jumping into the work can cause issues if not thought

out properly.

For example, we had to create a new way to

deal with the retaining wall.

Also, another lesson would be to try and not try

and get as much as you can done at the

start of the project so you have more time to

deal with issues and focus on quality.

This allows this also allows time to ensure that the

project is running smoothly from start to finish.

Overall, we did not have as many issues come up

that we weren't able to solve but how we solved

the smaller ones were keeping the project sponsor up to

date and aware almost each and every day of the

project, ensuring our stakeholders were happy.

We had a budget of $10,000 which was a lump

sum and we ended up meeting this criteria.

We also have a timeline of one month and we

met this deadline as well.

However, changes By the owner extended our project to a

total of 35 days, which was approved by this project

sponsor. All in all, I learned so much from this

project and enjoyed this class more than any other.

I've been a part of the planning from start to

finish along with hands on completing the project, learning the

ins and outs allowed me to enhance my project project

management skills greatly.

Now let's take a look at some of the photos

from the finished project.

Thank you so much and I look forward to answering

any questions that you may have.

Driveway Renovation

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