Course detail
Construction Management
FA-RES-KEAcad. year: 2022/2023
Subject is aimed at problems of preparation and realization phase of building construction and deals with principles if investment process, with tasks of construction participants and public discussion of construction works. Problems of land planning, land and building permission proceedings and related documentation. Subject is closely aimed at importance, content and division of building preparation and elaboration of basic documentation. Subject also includes acquainting with supply and investment systems in building construction and acquaints students with activities and means of control of production process and common agenda of site engineers and site foremen. Further, relations on time planning, finance draw, assurance of quality of building works in input control, control between operations and output control, general technical requirements on building construction and principles of safety execution of building works will be explained. Students also gain knowledge from the field of mechanization and automation of building processes and optimal employment of building machines.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
– Students gain basic information and knowledge about modelling of time, space and technological structure of the building and optimization of sources – finance, materials, workers and machines.
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Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Exam is written and oral. Students can go to oral part, if they successfully pass written part.
Course curriculum
- Introduction to the subject, investment policy, investment process, preparation and realization phase, participants on site, public discussion, main legal regulations
- Building Act, zoning and building management, documentation for building management, procedures, deadlines and its requirements according to the implementing decree
- Activities in production process, working site acceptance, works acceptance, acceptance process, approval process
- Working site equipment, concept of operation on working site, working site equipment objects, transport on the working site and out of the working site, underground services, determination of landfill areas, areas for BSO (building site objects)
- Time planning, models, outputs, time and financial working schedules, continuous financing, partial invoicing, network charts - basic models, rules
- Selection procedures, specificity of building manufacturing, contracts
- Basics of tax system and tax in construction. Ways of financing construction. Basics of construction budgeting
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
HANNA, Nessim; DODGE H. Robert. Pricing: Policies and Procedures. Macmillan International Higher Education, 2017. ISBN: 9781349134472. (EN)
HARRIS, Frank; McCAFFER, Ronald; EDUM-FOTWE, Francis. Modern construction management. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. ISBN: 978-0470672174. (EN)
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Elearning
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Exercise in computer lab
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Elearning