Course Details

Project Management of Building Constructions 1

Academic Year 2023/24

BVA011 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / E Winter Semester 4th year

In this course students will acquaint with the history and present of project management. Attention is also focused on projects associated with construction. Project life cycle is divided into individual phases, which provide the organizational and plan their course. Scheduling techniques focusing on the use of network analysis for term, resource, cost and financial planning are discussed. Part of teaching is also managing issues of risk management in construction. Students will acquaint with Microsoft Project.

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Hromádka, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Objective

To get common knowledge and skills of project management and adopting concrete procedures and methods of construction project management. Necessary knowledge for planning and management of projects from the investor’s side. Presumption for acquiring project manager certification in Czech Republic according to IPMA policy for level D „Certified Project Management Associate".

Knowledge

Knowledge of common procedures and specific skills of project management.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to project management – historic evolution, current conception, suitable use, subject and content, fundamental terms.
2. Project connected with construction, construction as subject of construction project, participants of construction process, construction code.
3. Pre-investment phase of project, initiation, goals setting, documentation, project management, feasibility study.
4. Evaluation of project proposal, planning, structuring of construction project, structuring of construction object.
5. Work organisation of project, construction project participants, organisation structure, ways of construction, personnel provision, project manager.
6. System of construction project planning, types, actualisations and levels of project plans, techniques of project planning, terminal planning.
7. Network analysis, CPM, PERT method, Gantt chart, planning of sources, planning of sources outputs, sources histogram, cost planning, financial planning.
8. Financing of project, proposal prices of project works.
9. Relations between participants in investment project, work contract, command contract, model contract according to FIDIC.
10. Risks and changes management, risks engineering, risks in construction, project risks management.
11. Construction management models, software Microsoft Project.
12. Project controlling, analysis of achieved performance values and progress of project costs, system of progress reporting and cost controlling.
13. Information for construction and civil engineering, termination of lectures.

Prerequisites

General knowledge of construction production in Czech Republic, legislative processes associated with construction development, documentation of construction projects, technology of construction production and basics of network analysis.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

6 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

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/272942

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction to project management – historic evolution, current conception, suitable use, subject and content, fundamental terms.

2. Project connected with construction, construction as subject of construction project, participants of construction process, construction code.

3. Pre-investment phase of project, initiation, goals setting, documentation, project management, feasibility study.

4. Evaluation of project proposal, planning, structuring of construction project, structuring of construction object.

5. Work organisation of project, construction project participants, organisation structure, ways of construction, personnel provision, project manager.

6. System of construction project planning, types, actualisations and levels of project plans, techniques of project planning, terminal planning.

7. Network analysis, CPM, PERT method, Gantt chart, planning of sources, planning of sources outputs, sources histogram, cost planning, financial planning.

8. Financing of project, proposal prices of project works.

9. Relations between participants in investment project, work contract, command contract, model contract according to FIDIC.

10. Risks and changes management, risks engineering, risks in construction, project risks management.

11. Construction management models, software Microsoft Project.

12. Project controlling, analysis of achieved performance values and progress of project costs, system of progress reporting and cost controlling.

13. Information for construction and civil engineering, termination of lectures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Program of teaching, instruction and guidance. The interpretation and practical examples – Modelling of course of the project, methods and examples of the use of network analysis.

2. Examples of calculation of network graph, reserves and their use.

3. The course of a construction project. Processing flowchart of construction project, correction network graph.

4. 1st task – project definition by method of the logical framework, processing a problem analysis.

5. Continuing work on the 1st task, processing a target analysis and own logical framework.

6. Public presentation of the project definition by method of the logical framework by each group.

7. 2nd task – processing schedule for a specific site in the form of a network diagram, organizational chart, stakeholder responsibility matrix, resource analysis

8. Continuing work on the 2nd task.

9. 3rd task – processing the organogram and functional diagram for particular building.

10. Correction 3rd task.

11. 4th task – Processing and analysing well arranged a schedule of particular building for gross phases of planning and realization, updating and modification of this schedule. The part of this task is processing a costs plan, deployment plan of factual resources and financial plan

12. Continuing work on the 4th task – correction, credit test.

13. Continuing work on the 4th task – correction. Submission of all processed documents in a folder. Credit.