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CEM-801 Construction Project Administration
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Campus
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SCEE (NIT)
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Programs
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PG
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Session
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Spring Semester 2017
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Course Title
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Construction Project Administration
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Course Code
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CEM-801
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Credit Hours
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3
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Pre-Requisutes
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Course Objectives
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Course Objectives: To teach best practices in project administration; from understanding the contract and its implications to meeting facilitation and field inspections, paperwork completion and reporting, to accessing and interpreting documentation helpful to a projects success.
Course Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Describe the critical elements of pre-construction operations
- Explain critical inputs to the process for construction planning and scheduling.
- Monitor work progress
- Diagram the elementary work activities given for the job
- Track time duration information for activity completion
- Outline a logical order in which given work items must be done
- Compare variations in type and elements of basic construction contracts
- Describe standard procedures for quality control in materials and workmanship
- Describe standard procedures for handling changes, claims and disputes
- Administer standard documents and procedures for construction project closeout
- Explain the documents required to recommend/allocate the final phase of payment and waiver of liens
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Detail Content
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- The construction industry.
- Projects and professional construction management.
- Project manager and project organization.
- Value engineering. The value concept.
- Budgeting. Feasibility analysis.
- Project planning. Project plan elements.
- Bidding for construction projects.
- Construction resource mobilization.
- Manpower planning and personnel management.
- Materials management. Materials requirement planning.
- Communication and project management information systems.
- Project control. The planning-monitoring-control cycle.
- Project evaluation, auditing and termination. Purposes of evaluation.
- Health and safety in construction.
- Productivity issues in construction.
- Quality issues in construction.
- Contract law and construction contracts.
- Construction claims.
- Construction insurance.
- International contracting.
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Text/Ref Books
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- Fellows, R. Langford, D. Newcombe, R. and Urry, S. (2002). Construction Management in Practice. Blackwell Science Ltd.
- Levy, M. Sidney. (2000). Project Management in Construction. McGraw-Hill.
- Hendrickson C. and Tung Au (1989). Project Management for Construction. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
- Frisk, E. R., (1988). Construction Project Administration. Wiley.
- Dunham C. W. and Young R. D. (1986). Contracts, Specification and Law for Engineers. McGraw-Hill.
- Roy Plicher (1992). Principle of Construction Management. McGraw-Hill.
- Oberlender, D. Garold. (1993). Project Management for Engineering and Construction. McGraw-Hill.
- PMI. (2000). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Project Management Institute, USA.
- Kerzner, Harold (2000). Project Management: A System Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Time Schedule
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Spring Semester 2015
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Faculty/Resource Person
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Lec. Shahnila Gul
MSc, Kingston University, UK
Discipline: Civil Engineering
Specialty: Construction Engg & Management
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