ES4D5-15 Construction Management
Introductory description
ES4D5-15 Construction Managment
Module aims
The module aims are providing the students with grounding in construction management of building and civil engineering works. The module shall prepare students for working in the construction industry through an understanding of the important interactions between construction processes, strategic and business management. Students shall be able to apply this understanding to achieve safe, economic, timely and quality outcomes over the life cycle of a project.
Outline syllabus
This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.
o Introduction to Construction Business and Project Management
o Construction Management Roles and Responsibilities
o Obtaining the project
Bids (Pre-qualification and Tendering; Estimating)
Selection methods
Contracts (standard forms of contract; construction law and resolving disputes)
o Project stages
Design (planning approval; stages of design, RIBA; Design Management BS 7000-4; site investigation)
Pre-construction
Procurement
Construction (project management; contract administration; billing; getting paid; cost management; time management, quality management; safety management; environmental management)
o Time management, cost management, and resources management.
o Sustainability in Construction
o Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Requirements
BIM maturity levels
o Site Design and Operation
Health and Safety in Design and Construction, CDM Regulations
Site Waste Management Plans
Site Organisation
Learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
- o Identify, use and critically analyse the range of processes involved in design, construction and post construction of civil engineering projects.
- o Identify and interpret forms of contract and documents associated with a typical construction project.
- o Demonstrate an advanced understanding and critical awareness of team collaboration and building information modelling and management in civil engineering projects.
- o Demonstrate systematic knowledge and critical awareness of the process of strategy formation and implementation in the construction business and project environment.
- o Creatively apply and evaluate aspects of construction management and planning based on standard codes of practice.
- o Demonstrate effective communication, both verbal and written, to a technical and non-technical audience.
Indicative reading list
CIOB (2014), Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development, Wiley Blackwell, 5th ed., ISBN: 978-1-118-37808-3
Harris F., Ronald McCaffer , Francis Edum-Fotwe (2013) Modern Construction Management, Wiley Blackwell, 7th ed. ISBN-10: 047067217X, ISBN-13: 978-0470672174
Powell, G. (2016) Construction Contract Preparation and Management: From Concept to Completion. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN-13: 978-1-137-51114-0
Chuck Eastman, Paul Teicholz, Rafael Sacks, Kathleen Liston (2011) BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors, 2nd Edition ISBN: 978-0-470-54137-1
March, C.,(2009), Operations Management for Construction, Taylor & Francis, ISBN-10: 0415371139, ISBN-13: 978-0415371131
Subject specific skills
- Ability to conceive, make and realise a component, product, system or process
- Ability to develop economically viable and ethically sound sustainable solutions
- Ability to be pragmatic, taking a systematic approach and the logical and practical steps necessary for, often complex, concepts to become reality
- Ability to seek to achieve sustainable solutions to problems and have strategies for being creative and innovative
- Ability to be risk, cost and value-conscious, and aware of their ethical, social, cultural, environmental, health and safety, and wider professional engineering responsibilities
Transferable skills
- Numeracy: apply mathematical and computational methods to communicate parameters, model and optimize solutions
- Apply problem solving skills, information retrieval, and the effective use of general IT facilities
- Communicate (written and oral; to technical and non-technical audiences) and work with others
- Plan self-learning and improve performance, as the foundation for lifelong learning/CPD
- Exercise initiative and personal responsibility, including time management, which may be as a team member or leader
- Awareness of the nature of business and enterprise in the creation of economic and social value
- Overcome difficulties by employing skills, knowledge and understanding in a flexible manner
- Ability to formulate and operate within appropriate codes of conduct, when faced with an ethical issue
- Appreciation of the global dimensions of engineering, commerce and communication
- Be professional in their outlook, be capable of team working, be effective communicators, and be able to exercise responsibility and sound management approaches.
Study time
Type | Required |
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Lectures | 25 sessions of 1 hour (17%) |
Seminars | 2 sessions of 1 hour (1%) |
External visits | 1 session of 2 hours (1%) |
Online learning (independent) | 6 sessions of 1 hour (4%) |
Private study | 115 hours (77%) |
Total | 150 hours |
Private study description
115 hours of guided independent learning
Costs
No further costs have been identified for this module.
You must pass all assessment components to pass the module.
Students can register for this module without taking any assessment.
Assessment group A5
Weighting | Study time | Eligible for self-certification | |
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Assessment component |
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Written Assignment | 100% | Yes (extension) | |
Written Assignment (4000 words) |
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Reassessment component is the same |
Feedback on assessment
Individual feedback will be given on the assignment together with general feedback.
Courses
This module is Core for:
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UESA-H211 MEng Civil Engineering
- Year 4 of H211 Civil Engineering
- Year 4 of H20A Civil Engineering with Business Management
- Year 4 of H20C Civil Engineering with Fluid Dynamics
- Year 4 of H20B Civil Engineering with Sustainability
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UESA-H217 MEng Civil Engineering
- Year 4 of H217 Civil Engineering MEng
- Year 5 of H217 Civil Engineering MEng
- Year 4 of UESA-H219 MEng Civil Engineering with Exchange Year
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UESA-H212 MEng Civil Engineering with Intercalated Year
- Year 4 of H212 Civil Engineering with Intercalated Year
- Year 4 of H20N Civil Engineering with Intercalated Year with Appropriate Technology
- Year 4 of H20G Civil Engineering with Intercalated Year with Business Management
- Year 4 of H20J Civil Engineering with Intercalated Year with Fluid Dynamics
- Year 4 of H20H Civil Engineering with Intercalated Year with Sustainability
This module is Core optional for:
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UESA-H218 MEng Civil Engineering with Intercalated Year
- Year 4 of H218 Civil Engineering with Intercalated Year
- Year 5 of H218 Civil Engineering with Intercalated Year
This module is Optional for:
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UESA-H107 MEng Engineering
- Year 4 of H107 Engineering MEng
- Year 4 of H10E Engineering with Appropriate Technology MEng
- Year 4 of H10J Engineering with Automotive Engineering MEng
- Year 4 of H10C Engineering with Business Management MEng
- Year 4 of H10G Engineering with Communications MEng
- Year 4 of H10H Engineering with Computer Engineering MEng
- Year 4 of H10M Engineering with Fluid Dynamics MEng
- Year 4 of H10F Engineering with Instrumentation MEng
- Year 4 of H10K Engineering with Robotics MEng
- Year 4 of H10D Engineering with Sustainability MEng
- Year 4 of H10L Engineering with Systems Engineering MEng
- Year 4 of UESA-H114 MEng Engineering
- Year 4 of UESA-H117 MEng Engineering with Exchange Year
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UESA-H109 MEng Engineering with Intercalated Year
- Year 5 of H109 Engineering with Intercalated Year MEng
- Year 5 of H10Q Engineering with Intercalated Year with Appropriate Technology MEng
- Year 5 of H10U Engineering with Intercalated Year with Automotive Engineering MEng
- Year 5 of H10N Engineering with Intercalated Year with Business Management MEng
- Year 5 of H10S Engineering with Intercalated Year with Communications MEng
- Year 5 of H10T Engineering with Intercalated Year with Computer Engineering MEng
- Year 5 of H10X Engineering with Intercalated Year with Fluid Dynamics MEng
- Year 5 of H10R Engineering with Intercalated Year with Instrumentation MEng
- Year 5 of H10V Engineering with Intercalated Year with Robotics MEng
- Year 5 of H10P Engineering with Intercalated Year with Sustainability MEng
- Year 5 of H10W Engineering with Intercalated Year with Systems Engineering MEng
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UESA-H115 MEng Engineering with Intercalated Year
- Year 4 of H115 Engineering with Intercalated Year MEng
- Year 5 of H115 Engineering with Intercalated Year MEng