Course Details

Construction Company Economy

Academic Year 2023/24

NVB061 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-GK Winter Semester 1st year

Management of the production in the construction company.
Efficiency of company’s construction activity.
Planning in the structural firm. Company’s evidence and information.
Control of company’s activity with the use of control systems.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Tomáš Hanák, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Knowledge of labour engineering and fundamentals of costing and price setting in civil engineering, company finances and accounting.

Aims

To acquire ability to manage production costs in construction firm with utilisation of control systems.
Knowledge of manage production costs in construction firm with utilisation of control systems.

Basic Literature

Synek Miloslav a kolektiv. Manažerská ekonomika. 5., aktualizované a doplněné vydání. 2011, Grada, ISBN: 978-80-247-3494-1 (cs)
Stephen Grunenberg, Noble Francis. Economics of Construction. 2018, Agenda Publishing, ISBN: 9781788210140 (en)
Petra Taušl Procházková, Eva Jelínková. Podniková ekonomika - klíčové oblasti. 2018, Grada, ISBN: 978-80-271-0689-9 (cs)

Prerequisites

Knowledge of labour engineering and fundamentals of costing and price setting in civil engineering, company finances and accounting.

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/271079

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.–3. Costs in the company, the costs theory.

4.–5. Material management.

6. Wages and the labour power.

7. Working machines and machinery.

8-10. Efficiency and planning of the company’s activity.

11.–12. Basic attributes of the controlling in the construction company.

13. Basic attributes of the benchmarking. Company’s evidence.