Course Details

Construction Company

Academic Year 2023/24

BVA018 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / E Summer Semester 4th year

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

Credits

6 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Tomáš Hanák, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

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 Management of the production in the structural firm

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)

Syllabus

1.–3. Costs in the firm, the costs theory.
4.–5. Material management.
6. Wages and workforce.
7. Working machines and machinery.
8. Efficiency of the firm’s activity.
9. Planning.
10. Basic attributes of the controlling in the construction company.
11. Basic attributes of the benchmarking.

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/272935

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

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

4.–5. Material management.

6. Wages and workforce.

7. Working machines and machinery.

8. Efficiency of the firm’s activity.

9. Planning.

10. Basic attributes of the controlling in the construction company.

11. Basic attributes of the benchmarking.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Assignment of semestral work.

2. Calendar working time.

3. Costs for labor.

4. Costs for material.

5. Costs and revenues.

6. Production calculation.

7. Performance indicators.

8.–9. Modelling measures for next year.

10. Evaluation of model measures and their combination.

11. Control and handing-in semestral work, presentation of results.