Course Details

Building Economics

Academic Year 2023/24

BVA025 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Winter Semester 4th year

Sectional course.
Fundaments of the problematic of technical economical disciplines (technical standardisation, rewarding, calculations), economical disciplines (prices, accounting, financing, taxes, investments).
Fundaments of the problematic of commercial and managerial disciplines (marketing, management, project management).
Application of general knowledge on the construction company. Link to the building law and technical construction disciplines.

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Tomáš Hanák, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Objective

To acquire ability to orient in construction production.

Knowledge

Ability to orient in economy of building production and in valuation with respect to conditions on building market.

Syllabus

1. Indroduction to the building economics
2. Construction products and constructing, coding, classifications
3. Investments
4. Financing
5. Taxes
6. Accounting
7. Material costs
8. Remuneration of labour force
9. Machinery costs
10. Valuation of construction production
11. Cost estimates of constructions
12. Construction order management
13. Engieering activity

Prerequisites

Knowledge of basic economic terminology and relations. Basics of macroeconomic and microeconomic theories.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 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/272929

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Indroduction to the building economics

2. Construction products and constructing, coding, classifications

3. Investments

4. Financing

5. Taxes

6. Accounting

7. Material costs

8. Remuneration of labour force

9. Machinery costs

10. Valuation of construction production

11. Cost estimates of constructions

12. Construction order management

13. Engieering activity

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Classification

2. Contracts for work

3. Investments

4. Finances

5. Taxes

6. Costs for material

7. Costs for labor

8. Costs for machines

9-10. Calculation of the price of construction work

11. Price of building object

12. Cost calculation of engineering works and marketing

13. Credit test and credit