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Introduction

Physical fitness, hygiene, health and an extended life is the desire of today’s people. The trend has been changing over the years and today people want to live a life full of happiness, joy, health and without any worries. People want to see themselves fit. Therefore, in order to improve the quality of life and taking proper care of the health and lifetime fitness of the people, the demand for the health and fitness clubs and spa clubs has been increasing over the years. There are thousands of health and fitness clubs around the world providing different services to its members. However, the purpose of this project is to create a lifetime health and fitness club that is aimed at providing a healthy lifestyle to its members so that they could enjoy a happy life.

Project Charter

Project Title: Lifetime Health & Fitness Club Project

Project Start Date:1^st-July-2015

Project Finish Date: 30th-December-2015

Project Objective

The objective of this project is to create the best lifetime fitness club that will provide its visitors with the best quality of services and highest national standards. For the enjoyment, ease and luxury of the users, building, designing and the commissioning of the required infrastructure would be done over a minimum air conditioned space of about 8000 square feet and the best quality equipment would be placed for providing high level of services. The high level equipment are going to include the cardio theatre setting where concept II rowers would be placed, recumbent bikes, upright bikes, cross trainers and treadmills. Apart from these a variety of the weight machines would also be placed where the users could perform functional training and get a full body workout facility. In the workout area, barbells and dumbbells would be also placed and these would have weights ranging from 1 pound to 55 pounds. Along with this an incline bench, smith machine and power racks in different weight stations would also be placed.

Project Team

First of all the main responsibility for the organization and the planning of the whole project would be of the project manager. It would also be the responsibility of the project manager to hire the right staff and preparing and finalizing the contracts with the contractors and the suppliers. Along with the project manager, a design manager would also be there who would be responsible for the choice of the equipment, pool and project design. Finally, in order to oversee the site and the construction work a construction manager would also be there.

Authorized Budget: $750,000

Integration

The integration of all the activities would be achieved with the combined efforts of the project manager, design manager and the construction manager.Integration management is basically one of the core component of the entire project management. It ensures that all the processes and all the activities as highlighted in the time and cost part, are properly coordinated. A coherent and consistent document would be produced which is going to integrate the whole project plans. Integration basically means combining and coordinating all parts of the project, therefore, the entire integration for all the activities could be seen in the following spaghetti diagram.

Stakeholder Management

There are going to be many stakeholders associated with the lifetime fitness club and all of them are going to have a varying degree of interest and power to influence the activities and the decisions regarding the project. The most associated stakeholders for this project are identified according to the set of questions as mentioned in the table below:

	Question	All stakeholders that apply. Use people’s names whenever possible.
1.	Funding approval?	This is the responsibility of the project manager who is the most significant stakeholder of the project.
2.	Approves functional requirements?	Design Manager
3.	Technical requirements approval?	Project Manager
4.	Design decisions approval	Design Manager
5.	Approves changes to requirements?	Design Manager
6.	Approves changes affecting schedule?	Project manager
7.	Approves changes affecting cost?	Project Manager
8.	Users of the products and services?	Visitors, individuals, college students, teens, adults.
9.	Sets the goals of the organization?	Project owner
10.	Determining the project team members and their working hours?	Project Manager
11.	Approves contracts for suppliers?	Construction manager
12.	Project sponsor?	Project Owner
13.	Manager of the project?	Project manager
14.	Represents organization policies governing this project?	Project owner
15.	Represents laws and regulations affecting the project?	Project manager, design manager
16.	Will be working over the project?	Project manager, design manager, construction manager
17.	Will participate in phase gate decisions to approve moving the project to the next phase?	Project manager

Scope

The scope and the purpose of the lifetime fitness is very vast. The main purpose for which this lifetime fitness club is being constructed and designed to serve and provide a wide variety of facilities to teens, adults, students, businessman and all type of individuals in the society that care for their health and a healthy and high level lifestyle...............

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