Course detail

Project Management of Commission

FAST-CV68Acad. year: 2012/2013

In the subject students take up with the history and present of project management oriented on projects connected with construction process. Till this time acquired knowledge is inserted into scheme of the project management and to particular phases of lifecycle of the project, preparation and realization of construction. Part of the subject is created by construction management models, construction and technological preparation and construction processes management. Attention is focused on flow method and with it connected balancing and jointing of particular flows. Students meet software for planning and management of projects. Part of the education it is an area of risks in the construction process, project controlling, quality assurance, assurance of safety, health and environmental protection. The end of the subject is connected with statutory negotiation and documentation in construction process.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will gain general knowledge and skills of project management. They will learn specific techniques and methods in construction project management. They are able to use network analysis for term, resource, cost and financial planning. They manage the issue of risks in construction. They will acquaint with Microsoft Project.

Prerequisites

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

Co-requisites

Realization of particular types of civil structures, usage and application of proper types of mechanisms and devices, time schedule of construction.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The teaching is divided into lectures and seminars.
PowerPoint presentation is prepared at every lecture by lecturer. Basic depiction ideas are developed further orally. Discussed theory is by options completed by brief examples, diagrams, pictures or graphs. Partial block of teaching is at the end of a brief summary and control questions verify its understanding. At the end of the lecture, students are invited to discuss.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Study of the course is concluded by credit and examination.
Credit is given after completion of all obligations, i.e. attendance, submission of partial assignments and successfully passed credit written work.
The exam consists of written and oral part. Attendance at the test is conditioned by awarded credit. The written test consists of five questions. After a positive evaluation an oral examination follows with the debate over the three issues, which are selected from previously known list.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction to project management – historic evolution, current conception, suitable use, subject and content
2. Project connected with construction, construction as subject of construction project, participants of construction process, construction code
3. Construction management models. Organization and definitions of construction firm, construction and technological preparation, production process management
4. Construction contract process as project, production process, methods of construction, flow method
5. Parameters and types of flows, flow period, schema of flow progress, flows balancing, jointing of particular flows. Software for project management
6. Financing of project, proposal prices of project works, relations between participants of investment project
7. Project controlling, analysis of achieved value of outputs and project costs development
8. Risks and changes management, risks engineering, risks in construction, project risks management. Conception, assurance and control of quality
9. Statutory negotiation in the process of preparation and realization of constructions, documentation in construction projects
10. Environmental protection, assurance and liquidation of wastes, recycling, safety and health protection in construction process

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Acquisition of knowledge and skills in the area of the project management and acquiring of specific ways and methods intended for preparation and realization of constructions, mainly on the side of a supplier.

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 II. Brno: VUT v Brně, Fakulta stavební, 2006. Elektronická studijní opora. (CS)

Recommended reading

JARSKÝ, Čeněk: Příprava a realizace staveb. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2003. ISBN 80-7204-282-3. (CS)
KUBÁLEK, Tomáš a KUBÁLKOVÁ, Markéta: Řízení projektů v Microsoft Project 2010. Brno: Computer Press, 2010. ISBN 978-80-251-3266-1. (CS)
LEVY, Sidney, M.: Project management in construction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN 0-07-139587-3. (EN)
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)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch V , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch V , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch V , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Introduction to project management – historic evolution, current conception, suitable use, subject and content
2. Project connected with construction, construction as subject of construction project, participants of construction process, construction code
3. Construction management models. Organization and definitions of construction firm, construction and technological preparation, production process management
4. Construction contract process as project, production process, methods of construction, flow method
5. Parameters and types of flows, flow period, schema of flow progress, flows balancing, jointing of particular flows. Software for project management
6. Financing of project, proposal prices of project works, relations between participants of investment project
7. Project controlling, analysis of achieved value of outputs and project costs development
8. Risks and changes management, risks engineering, risks in construction, project risks management. Conception, assurance and control of quality
9. Statutory negotiation in the process of preparation and realization of constructions, documentation in construction projects
10. Environmental protection, assurance and liquidation of wastes, recycling, safety and health protection in construction process

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Program of teaching, instruction and guidance
2. The course of a construction project
3. Processing flowchart of construction project
4. Structural plan of the construction project and its cost valuation, 1st task – processing of structural plan processing of particular building
5. Continuation of work on the 1st task
6. Organization of construction project, 2nd task – processing of organigram and functional diagram of particular building
7. Timetable, 3rd task – processing and analysis of well arranged schedule of particular building for gross phases of planning and realization, updating and modification of this schedule
8. 3rd task - processing of costs plan, deployment plan of factual resources and financial plan
9. Credit test
10. Submission of all processed documents in an envelope. Credit