Course detail

Project Management

FAST-CV16Acad. year: 2010/2011

In the subject students take up with the history and present of project management. Attention is next focused on projects connected with construction. Life cycle of project is divided into particular phases that are ensured from the organizational aspect and there is planned their running. There are explained techniques of planning with orientation on network analysis usage for time, sources, costs and financial planning. Part of education there is also the area of risks in construction.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jana Korytárová, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Knowledge and skills from the area of project management and assumption of specific methods in preparation and realization of buildings.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in area of financing, prices and management in civil engineering.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

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, feasibility study, logical frame method
4. Evaluation of project proposal, planning, structuring of construction project, structuring of construction object.
5. Work organization of project, construction project participants, kinds of project management, personnel provision
6. System of construction project planning, historic development, types, actualizations 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, relations between participants of investment project.
9. Function of statistics, basic terms, statistical classification and registers, inflation, price statistics
10. Risks and changes management, risks engineering
11. Risks in construction, project risks management

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Usage of general knowledge and skills from the area of project management and assumption of specific methods in preparation and realization of buildings.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

NOVÝ, Martin, NOVÁKOVÁ, Jana a WALDHANS, Miloš: Projektové řízení staveb I. Brno: VUT v Brně, Fakulta stavební, 2006. Elektronická studijní opora. (CS)

Recommended reading

DOLANSKÝ, Václav, MĚKOTA, Vladimír a NĚMEC, Vladimír: Projekotvý management. Praha: Grada, 1996. ISBN 80-7169-287-5. (CS)
MATĚJKA, Vladimír: Management projektů spojených s výstavbou. Praha: Informační centrum České komory autorizovaných inženýrů a techniků činných ve výstavbě, 2001. ISBN 80-86364-56-9. (CS)
NĚMEC, Vladimír: Projektový management. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2002. ISBN 80-247-0392-0. (CS)
LEVY, Sidney, M.: Project management in construction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN 0-07-139587-3. (EN)
ROSENAU, Milton, D.: Řízení projektů. Praha: Computer Press, 2003. ISBN 80-7226-218-1. (CS)
SVOZILOVÁ, Alena: Projektový management. Praha: Grada, 2006. ISBN 978-80-247-3611-2. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch R , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch R , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch R , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, obligation not entered

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jana Korytárová, Ph.D.

Exercise

26 hours, obligation not entered

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jana Korytárová, Ph.D.