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CE401 Construction Management

This course covers the key concepts of construction management including managerial duties, manpower planning, equipment cost estimation, project planning, scheduling, contracts, and quality and safety controls. Students will learn basic construction planning techniques such as defining tasks, precedence relationships, estimating activity durations and resource requirements. Scheduling procedures like critical path method, activity float, resource scheduling will be covered. Cost control, accounting, cash flow management, and schedule and budget updates are also addressed. The course aims to prepare students to efficiently manage construction projects with knowledge of roles, scheduling, costing, contracts and quality assurance.

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CE401 Construction Management

This course covers the key concepts of construction management including managerial duties, manpower planning, equipment cost estimation, project planning, scheduling, contracts, and quality and safety controls. Students will learn basic construction planning techniques such as defining tasks, precedence relationships, estimating activity durations and resource requirements. Scheduling procedures like critical path method, activity float, resource scheduling will be covered. Cost control, accounting, cash flow management, and schedule and budget updates are also addressed. The course aims to prepare students to efficiently manage construction projects with knowledge of roles, scheduling, costing, contracts and quality assurance.

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CE401 CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT [(3-0-0); CREDITS: 3]

Course Objectives:

 To know the managerial duties and responsibilities


 To learn about man power planning and estimation of equipment cost
 To understand project planning and scheduling concepts
 To know the types of construction contracts and their drafting

Construction Planning: Basic concepts in the development of construction plans - choice of


Technology and Construction method - Defining Work Tasks – Definition - Precedence
relationships among activities - Estimating Activity Durations - Estimating Resource
Requirements for work activities - coding systems.
Scheduling Procedures And Techniques - Relevance of construction schedules - Bar charts -
Critical path method - Calculations for critical path scheduling - Activity float and schedules-
Presenting project schedules - Critical path scheduling for Activity-on-node and with leads, Lags
and Windows - Calculations for scheduling with leads, lags and windows - Resource oriented
scheduling - Scheduling with resource constraints and precedence - Use of Advanced Scheduling
Techniques - Scheduling with uncertain durations - Crashing and time/cost tradeoffs -Improving
the Scheduling process – Introduction to application software.
Cost Control Monitoring and Accounting - The cost control problem-The project Budget-
Forecasting for Activity cost control - financial accounting systems and cost accounts-Control of
project cash flows-Schedule control-Schedule and Budget updates-Relating cost and schedule
information.
Quality Control and Safety during Construction Quality and safety Concerns in Construction-
Organizing for Quality and Safety-Work and Material Specifications-Total Quality control-
Quality control by statistical methods -Statistical Quality control with Sampling by Attributes-
Statistical Quality control by Sampling and Variables-Safety.
Organization and Use of Project Information Types of project information-Accuracy and Use of
Information-Computerized organization and use of Information - Organizing information in
databases-relational model of Data bases-Other conceptual Models of Databases-Centralized
database Management systems-Databases and application programs-Information transfer and
Flow.
Course Outcomes:
 To perform the role of a manager efficiently with precise knowledge of the roles and
responsibilities
 To estimate the man power requirement and can recruit suitable candidates for
construction jobs
 To analyse and compare the cost estimates of different construction equipment
 To compute construction schedules, network diagrams and time estimates of projects
 To evaluate and make tenders and contract documents of their own

Text Book:
1. Chitkara, K.K. (2009) Construction Project Management Planning, Scheduling and
Controlling, Tata McGrawHill Publishing Company Ltd. [ISBN 13: 978-0-07-068075-3]
References:

1. B Sengupta and H Guha (1995) Construction Management and Planning, Tata McGraw
Hill Company Ltd. [ISBN-13978-0074623985]
2. Sangareddi P and L Meiyappan (2000) Construction Management, Kumaran
Publications, Coimbatore.
3. Srinath,L.S., “Pert and CPM Priniples and Applications “, Affiliated East West Press,
2001
4. Chris Hendrickson and Tung Au, “Project Management for Construction – Fundamentals
Concepts for Owners”, Engineers, Architects and Builders, Prentice Hall, Pitsburgh,
2000.
5. Moder. J., C.Philips and Davis (1983) Project management with CPM, PERT and
Precedence Diagramming, Vann strand Reinhold Company. [ISBN-13978-0442254155]
6. Clifford F. Gray and Erik W, Larson (2010) Project management-The Managerial
Process, Tata McGraw Hill Company Ltd. [ISBN-13978-9354602078]
7. Momoria (2011) Personnel Management, Himalaya Publishing Company. [ISBN-13978-
9350244517]

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