Czech

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Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Students will get knowledge and skills from project management. They will adopt processes and methods in construction project management. They manage flow planning method, they use space-time graph for the time, resource, cost and financial planning of construction. They handle the issue of risk management in construction. These all forms the knowledge base for the realization of projects.

Common knowledge of construction production in the Czech Republic, legislative processes connected with construction, documentation of construction projects, technology of construction production and basics of network analysis, basic knowledge in the area of financing, prices and management in civil engineering.

Ability to handle managerial work in the construction company in terms of management and human resources management.
Knowledge of management of construction contracts including links inside and outside the organization.

Education is divided into lectures and seminars.
The lecturer prepares a presentation in PowerPoint for each lecture. Basic displayed ideas are developed further orally. Theory is discussed, completed with brief examples, diagrams, pictures or graphs. There is a brief summary at the end of a partial block of education and its understanding is verified with control questions by a teacher. At the end of the lecture, students are invited to a discussion.

Study of the course is completed with credit and examination. Credit is awarded after completion of all obligations, i.e. attendance, submission of individual work and successfully passing credit test.
The exam consists of written and oral part. Participation in the exam limited with obtaining the credit. The written test consists of five questions. After a positive evaluation follows an oral exam done in the form of the debate over the three issues randomly selected from a from previously know

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

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

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

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

DOLANSKÝ, Václav, MĚKOTA, Vladimír a NĚMEC, Vladimír: Projekotvý management. Praha: Grada, 1996. ISBN 80-7169-287-5. (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)
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)