Credit Structure: (3-0) 3

Catalog Description:
Profile of the construction sector; company and site organization and types of contracts. Construction projects; estimating, tendering, planning and execution. Professional responsibility and engineering ethics. Productivity, quality, health and safety issues. Construction equipment; selection criteria, hourly cost determination and output analysis of excavators.

Course Objectives:
• To introduce the students a general picture of the construction industry together with the contemporary management topics.
• To provide the students with basic information on principles of construction project management and increase their awareness on major tasks of a construction manager.
• To present some of the techniques and methods used during the management of a construction project such as network analysis, cost estimating techniques, hourly output estimation of equipment etc.
• To help the students to understand the roles and responsibilities of all parties involved in a construction project, basic phases of a construction project and the way different parties work together to increase performance in a construction project.
• To give them brief information about the Turkish construction industry and Turkish practice giving reference to current rules and regulations (eg. Health and Safety Regulations for Public Works)
• To increase the awareness of students on the issues of quality, health and safety, professional responsibility, engineering ethics etc. and the environmental and economic impacts of the construction industry.
• To increase their understanding about the basic management functions (planning, controlling etc.) at both project and corporate management levels.
• To drive their attention to the importance of management of intangible resources (human resources, information resources etc.) together with financial resources, which is usually ignored in other courses of civil engineering curriculum.
 

Prerequisites:
None

Textbook(s):
“Modern Construction Management”, Harris, F., and McCaffer, R. (2001), 5^th Edition, Blackwell Science, UK

Reference(s):
“Construction Management”, Halpin, D. W., and Woodhead, R. W. (1998), 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, USA
“Engineering Project Management”, Smith, N. J. (1996), Blackwell Science Publications, UK
“Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods”, Peurifoy, R.L., and Schexnayder, C. J. (2002), 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, International Edition
“Principles of Construction Management”, Pilcher, R. (1992), 3rd edition, McGraw Hill International Series in Civil Engineering
 

Syllabus:
 

Week
1	Construction industry in general
	1. Role of construction industry in national economy
	Construction demand and supply, input-output relations with other industries, employment etc.
	2. Construction industry characteristics
	Differences from manufacturing industry, type of products,  project-based, bidding process, pricing construction work, construction value chain etc.
	3. Turkish construction industry
	Share in GNP, different sub-sectors (residential, infrastructure, industrial etc.), major players (clients, contractors etc.), contractors (TCA), internationalization of Turkish contractors (history and current status
2	Construction Project Management
	1. Definitions
	Project
	Project management
	Phases of a construction project (feasibility, design, construction etc.)
	Parties involved in a construction project, professional responsibility, engineering ethics
	Example from a construction project
	2. Tasks of a construction manager
	Development of the project plan
	Setting up the project and mobilizing resources (financial, human resources etc.)
	Managing the project (project objectives, planning and control-time, cost, quality )
	3. Company organization
	Company organizational structures
	Head office functions (business development, bid preparation, R&D, administration-IT, finance and accounts etc.)
	4. Overview of the course (seeing the overall picture)
	Contractor’s management functions (estimating, planning, resource management-quality, health, safety, environmental impact, materials, equipment- process improvement, productivity etc.)
	Client’s functions (project delivery systems, contract strategy etc.)
3-4	Project Delivery Systems – Contract Strategy
	1. Overview of project delivery systems
	Types of PDS: Design-bid-build, design-build, lump-sum, unit price, cost-fee etc.
	When to use each PDS, risk of each PDS to the client, contractor etc.
	2. Contract strategy
	Elements, terms and conditions of contract, contract administration, plans and specifications, contract management, how to develop a contract checklist, sub-contracts
	FIDIC Conditions of contract, General Specification for Public Works practiced by Turkish Ministry of Public Works and Settlement
5-6	Cost Estimating and Tendering
	1. Introduction
	Parties involved
	Estimating process
	Work breakdown structure
	2. Productivity
	Productivity definition, importance, problems
	Sources of poor productivity
	Non-productive activities
	Factors affecting productivity
	3. Bill Of Quantity (BOQ) estimating
	Decision to tender, programming the estimate
	Collection and calculation of cost information
	Labour, plant, materials, subcontractors
	4. Project study
	Drawings, site visit, method statements
	5. Preparing the estimate
	Types of estimates (operational, unit-price)
	Unit rate estimating
	6. Site overheads
	7. Tendering and bidding adjustments
7-9	Planning and Execution
	1. Introduction
	Definitions of planning, levels and stages of planning (top, middle, low levels/goals, means, solutions)
	Reasons of planning: execution, coordination, communication, control, forecasting etc.
	2. Process of planning
	Information gathering and preliminary planning:
	Deciding on the planning team,
	Contract documents, drawings and specifications – work breakdown structure
	Site and environmental conditions
	Construction technology, method statement
	Internal and external resources (availability, cost etc.)
	Goals and constraints dictated by top management, client, others.
	Deciding on level of details, scheduling techniques, frequency of updates.
	Preparation of plans:
	Resource planning, site layout, temporary facilities, work and resource schedules, cash flows.
	3. Monitoring plans and information diffusion
	4. Controlling, forecasting and revising plans
	5. Network analysis in planning
	6. Examples using network analysis
10	Managing Quality
	1. Definitions
	Quality, Quality control, Quality assurance, TQM
	Quality policy, quality manual, quality procedures, work instr.
	Quality standards (ISO 9000-9001)
	Developing and implementing quality systems
	2. Quality-related costs
	Prevention, appraisal, failure costs
	Cost of poor quality in construction
	3. Duties of a quality manager
	Setting up the quality system, writing procedures, staff training, monitoring performance, internal quality audits, working with assessors, revising the system.
11	Managing Health and Safety
	1. Brief information about worker safety and health
	2. Accidents
	Problem areas in accidents
	Type of fatal accident events
	3. Elements of an effective safety program
	Safety philosophy
	Scope
	Safety personnel
	Project safety program
	Training
	Owner’s guidelines
	Safety meetings
	Emergency plans
	4. Safety procedures
	Equipment operations
	Construction plants
	Excavations
	Construction of structures
	Marine or over-water construction
	5. Turkish practice: Health and Safety Regulations for Public Works
12-14	Construction Equipment
	1. Introduction to construction equipment
	Reasons to use construction equipments
	Importance of maintanance of equipment
	Standard vs. special equipments
	2. Estimating hourly rate of an equipment
	General output formula
	3. Excavating equipment
	General
	Power shovel, trucks

Grading System:
25 % Midterm 1
25 % Midterm 2
10 % Homework Assignments
40 % Final
 

Maximum Class Size and Student Quota:
50 for Department Students
None for Non-Department Students

Homeworks, Quizzes, Projects:
10 % of the Overall Grade

Computer Usage:
None

Laboratory Work:
None

Category Content:
Mathematics and Basic Sciences: None
Engineering Design: None
Engineering Sciences: None
Humanities & Social Sciences: 1
Departmental: 2

Instructors:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Talat Birgönül