Benimhanna Leisure Company Project

Benimhanna leisure company’ project

Project life cycle

Nicholas (2004) states that, the Project Life Cycle refers to a logical sequence of activities to accomplish the project’s goals or objectives. According to the Benimhanna’s project, let’s take a closer look at each stages:

1) Initiation

The �Benimhanna’ Project is about creating a new Health and Fitness Club which will incorporate new facilities and services. The focus for the project is bringing together health, fitness and relaxation. The aim of the project is to create a high quality health and fitness suite and providing the opportunity for users to exercise and relax in a state-of-the-art environment.

Construction Scale and Contents of the Project

The new fitness club will be larger than Benimhannas’ existing clubs. The plan is to build a main stadium and five halls, namely, swimming hall which it has a modern and functional 25 x 12 metre swimming pool ceiling with poolside lighting to create a more enjoyable swimming experience for the customers. A fitness hall includes the fitness facilities. The centrepiece of the project is a new 80-piece gym area equipped with an appropriate selection of cardio and weight training equipment. A training hall which has a health suite (including 5 tanning beds, and a sauna and steam room). This area will be easy to maintain, with requirements fitting existing schedules, and the focus will be on relaxation. This will be an area which members will want to visit as an activity in itself, rather than something that is done after a workout. A dancing hall including 2 aerobic/dance studios; a meeting hall which has 2 meeting rooms, a small cafeteria/bar lounge area and the additions of a hall which has a small 100 seat cinema, and a spa hall that has an extensive beauty spa.

2) Planning

Firstly, we need to focus on the stakeholders and related people issues. Our goal of this project is to provide a signature development of a high-quality health and fitness club contributing to the health and well-being of local people. We need to find out who our stakeholders are. As part of this, we need to think of all the people who are affected by our work, who have influence or power over it, or have an interest in its successful or unsuccessful conclusion. We decide that the stakeholders in the Benimhanna’s project are, the bosses, shareholders, government, senior executives, alliance partners, trades associations, suppliers, our team members, interest group, customers, the public, prospective customers, future recruits, the community, the press, lenders and so on. So we need to prioritize our stakeholders, understand our key stakeholders. We need to know how they are likely to feel about and react to our project. We also need to know how best to engage them in our project and how best to communicate with them.

Secondly, in the early stage of this project, we would use the PEST and SWOT analyses to highlight the issues. A PEST analysis refers to Political, Economic, Social and Technological factors. A SWOT analysis refers to Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. We would use these tools to analysis the business environment.

Third, we should focus on the internal and external risks. Nicholas (2004) points out that there are two main categories of internal risks are market risk and technical risk. Market risk is the risk of not fulfilling either market needs or the requirements of particular customers. Technical risk is the risk of not meeting time, cost, or performance requirements due to technical problems with the end-item or project activities. And the external risks is out of project managers and stakeholders’ control, it includes market conditions, government regulations, weather, material or labor resources(shortages), external control by customers or subcontractors over project work and resources and so on. But a higher risk might be associated with greater benefits, so if we can try to eliminate such a risk might also reduce the payoff. Risk can be reduced by employing an experienced team, minimizing project complexity, implementing careful planning and scheduling, using proven methods and technology, and monitoring critical-path and high-risk activities closely. For areas of high risk, contingency plans with alternatives for dealing with new problems should be developed.

Finally, we need to decide the cost and the budget if this project. We divide these cost categories such as labor cost, nonlabor cost, overhead cost and general and administrative cost. Direct labor cost is the charge of labor for the project. For each task indicated on the project schedule, an estimate is made of how many people will be needed in