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Construction Management

INTRODUCTION

  • Project characteristics
  • Project life cycle

SCOPE MANAGEMENT

  • Project selection
  • Basic and executive design
  • Work breakdown structure (WBS)

TIME MANAGEMENT

  • PERT/CPM technique
  • Activities duration: deterministic and probabilistic
  • Critical path, floats, early/late dates
  • Schedule definition and tracking

COST MANAGEMENT

  • Labor, material and equipment cost
  • ABC Curve
  • Interface estimating-planning
  • Direct and indirect costs
  • Profit
  • Cost monitoring and controlling

PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT

  • Lump sum
  • Unit price
  • Cost reimbursable contracts
  • Bids and contracts

QUALITY MANAGEMENT

  • Quality audit and quality control
  • Nonconformities
  • Checklists

RISK MANAGEMENT

  • Risk identification
  • Risk assessment
  • Time and cost contingencies
Cost Estimating

ESTIMATING

  • Degrees of estimates
  • Cost spreads
  • Production rates

LABOR

  • Wage and benefits
  • Factors that affect production rates

EQUIPMENT

  • Ownership and operation cost
  • Definition of equipment crews

OVERHEAD

  • Fixed and variable costs
  • Profit and mark-up

BID

  • Bidding and types of contract
  • Bid closing techniques

EXAMPLES

  • Several practical examples
Job Supervision

CONTRACT

  • Understanding bidding
  • Understanding contracting

ESTIMATING

  • Labor, material and equipment cost
  • Overhead, profit, mark-up
  • Change order value

PLANNING AND SCHEDULING

  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • PERT/CPM fundamentals
  • Detection of delays and cost overruns

JOB TRACKING

  • S Curves
  • Earned Value Analysis

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

  • Issues log
  • Documents and records
  • Progress payment
  • Contract claims
  • Dispute resolution
Planning and Controlling

PDCA CYCLE

  • Plan
  • Do
  • Check
  • Act

PERT/CPM TECHNIQUE

  • PERT/CPM technique
  • Activities duration: deterministic and probabilistic
  • Critical path, floats, early/late dates
  • Schedule definition and tracking
  • Long, medium and short-term periodic program
  • PPC technique (percent of program complete)

JOB TRACKING

  • Status date and progress
  • Schedule updating and analysis
  • Interpretation of updates
  • Real production rates

EARNED VALUE ANALYSIS

  • Earned value
  • Planned value
  • Schedule and cost variations
  • Schedule and cost performance indexes
  • Estimate to complete and at completion
  • Variation at completion
Ms Project

MS PROJECT – MODULE I: BASICS – SCHEDULING AND CONTROLLING

Critical Path Method

  • Activities duration
  • Critical path, floats, early/late dates
  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Microsoft Project

  • Project information
  • Project calendar
  • Activity list and WBS
  • Durations
  • Predecessors and successors
  • Baseline
  • Schedule updating
  • Reports

MS PROJECT – MODULE II: ADVANCED – RESOURCES AND COST

Resources

  • Types of resource
  • Resource assignment
  • Histograms
  • Overallocation and resource levelling

Cost

  • Fixed cost
  • Cost of resources
  • Cost histogram
  • S Curve
  • Earned Value Analysis
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