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Principles of Construction Management
Prof. Sudhir Misra · IIT Kanpur
About
Though the course primarily targets students of civil engineering in colleges, other engineering students may also find it interesting. The course seeks to present a rounded view of the divers issues involved in the management of construction projects, and includes aspects like construction economics, quality and safety management, and contract management, apart from time management and scheduling, estimation. It is hoped that engineers working in contracting, consulting and other organizations related to construction projects will also find the course useful.
Intended audience: Though the course primarily targets students of civil engineering in colleges, students from other disciplines, especially mechanical and electrical engineering may find it interesting.
Prerequisites: There are no real ‘pre-requisites’ to this course but an exposure to construction projects would make the understanding easier.
Lectures
Week 1 - General overview and project organization
- Lecture 1: Introduction to the course
- Lecture 2: Interdisciplinary nature of modern construction projects
- Lecture 3: Overview of steps in execution of a project
- Lecture 4: Illustrative examples for evaluation of bids based on different schemes
- Lecture 5: Resource management in construction projects
Week 2- Estimation of project cost
- Lecture 6: Estimating quantities
- Lecture 7: Description of items
- Lecture 8: Estimation of project cost
Week 3 - Construction Economics
- Lecture 9: Discussion on the case study of boundary wall
- Lecture 10: Running account bills
- Lecture 11: Economic decision making in construction projects
- Lecture 12: Depreciation of construction equipment
Week 4- Planning & Scheduling part-1
- Lecture 13: Repayment of a loan
- Lecture 14: Introduction to planning and scheduling
- Lecture 15: Introduction to planning and scheduling (continued)
- Lecture 16: Project scheduling
- Lecture 17: Uncertainties in duration of activities -Using PERT in scheduling-
Week 5-Planning & Scheduling part-2
- Lecture 18: Project monitoring and control systems
- Lecture 19: Resource leveling and allocation
- Lecture 20: Crashing of networks
Week 6 - Construction Safety Management
- Lecture 21: Introduction to construction safety
- Lecture 22: Accidents in construction industry - I
- Lecture 23: Accidents in construction industry - II
- Lecture 24: Personal protective equipment
- Lecture 25: Implications of construction accidents
- Lecture 26: Safety organization and safety officer
Week 7 - Quality Management in construction
- Lecture 27: Quality control in construction
- Lecture 28: Quality in construction – welding
- Lecture 29: Epoxy coated bars
- Lecture 30: Quality control of grouts in ducts of post-tensioned PC members
- Lecture 31: Quality control (QC) issues in concrete
Week 8 - Legal aspects of construction projects and closure
- Lecture 32: Legal issues in construction management – An introduction
- Lecture 33: Essentials of a good contract
- Lecture 34: Basics of contracting
- Lecture 35: Dispute resolution in construction projects
- Lecture 36: Types of construction contracts - Definitions
- Lecture 37: Recent developments in contracting
- Lecture 38: Closing the discussion on legal aspects
- Lecture 39: Quality control – concrete sewer pipeline
- Lecture 40: Closing remarks
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kanpur
- Department
- Civil Engineering
- Teacher
- Prof. Sudhir Misra
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Engineering
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
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