Course detail

Management of building production

FAST-CW03Acad. year: 2014/2015

Commercial code in relation to the origin of individual legal subjects – companies. Participants of construction work and their relations. Forms of control structures in companies. Supplier´s forms of construction, financing of buildings, contract for work. Problems of building manufacture, production plan, balance of sources. Building production management, tasks of managers. Control and operational elements of building production, delegation of powers and responsibilities. Preparation of employees, materials and machines. Final acceptance of site, written documents of site agent. Methods of work planning on site, management of employees and their motivation. Monitoring of labour safety, outputs and quality, acceptance proceedings in relation to sub-suppliers and to the client. Invoicing and final accounting of construction work.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Boris Biely

Department

Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management (TST)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

After taking the course, the students will understand the execution process primarily from the point of view of the contractor. Students will learn to work with the software tools for time and financial planning. They will understand the principles of the creation of time diagrams for individually selected constructions and the ways of resource management. Later on, students will learn to understand the connection between the complex time model and its component parts, the so-called operative plan. In the following parts of the course, the students will learn to work with construction books and to write the most important reports. Part of it is also understanding of record writing and outcomes from the inspections to the construction site. Students will also learn to make models for construction quality control, securing and health protection during the work, and environment protection and its application to the individual projects.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of complete construction process and rights and obligations of individual subjects in construction incl. requirements of public hearing. Knowledge in the area of general construction preparation.

Co-requisites

Students will use in this course their knowledge from other courses, which are connected to the issues of production control, such as production processes modeling, inspection and documentation of construction sites.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The teaching methodology depends on the applied teaching method and it is described in the article 7 of the Study and Examination Regulations, Brno University of Technology.
The course is divided into lectures and seminars, which take place every week. In the seminars the students are given individual assignments, they elaborate partial solutions and consult their proposals with the teacher. In the lectures the teacher presents theoretical and practical activities of the selected fields concern

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The conditions for the course completion are: obtaining the credit, which is acquired by attendance to the seminars (one missed class is permitted), student’s activity while consulting the individual assignments, and submitting all the reports on the required topic and with an appropriate layout. The conditions for passing the exam are: obtaining the credit, satisfactory completion of the written and oral parts of the exam.

Course curriculum

1.Basic terms of the Commercial Code for the establishment and operation of construction companies, alternatives of obligation relations, parties in the construction, their right and obligations
2. Supplier systems of construction, Contract for Work (sub-contractor, ordering client), financing of constructions
3. Principals of successful management, inter-personal relationships in the management process, transformation of a specialist in a manager, motivation of managers and subordinates, control and operation features of general management principles, delegation of competence and responsibility
4. Specific features of building production, production plan, balance of sources
5. Organisation of construction companies with stress laid on production section and its links
6. Initial data files for construction management, realisation documentation, production and operation preparation
7. Passing over and take-over of the site, obligations of individual entities
8. Planning as an integral part of the management, operational plan and its link to production calculation and accounting files
9. Supporting sections of the construction management at the level of a company, dispatch, specialised centres, mechanisation
10. Work management and organisation on site, obligations of the main contractor´s site managers (chief site managers), contractor´s site managers, foremen
11. Agenda of the site manager, basic documents on the course of work on site, keeping of builder´s log, care for building production quality, quality inspection
12. Care for occupational safety and work hygiene from the point of view of the employer and employees
13. Acceptance procedure in relation to sub-contractors and to ordering client, invoicing and final accounting of construction

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Making the student acquainted with basic rules of construction company management and operation, its division, competences of individual departments. Daily routine, rights and obligations of the operational management of construction companies, documents important for their management activity, safety rules to be met. Pre-production, production and operation preparation of constructions. Bidding and tender proceeding in construction in the link to the activities of the contractor. Contacting of students with managers of particular construction companies with stress laid on their specific activities.

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

To support the study can optionally take advantage of seminars, lectures by experts from practice, visits to construction companies and other events organized for students of guaranteeing institute.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Boyce, T.: The comercial engineer. Hawksmere London, 1990.
Frková J., Tománková J.: Projekt z přípravy a řízení staveb. ČVUT Praha, Fakulta stavební, 2000.
Hájek, V., Jelen, V., Vokálová J.: Ekonomika a management 10, část 1., 2.. ČVUT Praha, Fakulta stavební, 1999.
Harris, F., McCaffer, R.: Modern construction management. Granada publishing, London, 1993.
Jarský Č. Musil F. a kol.: Příprava a ralizace staveb. AA CERM Brno, 2003.
Malý, S.: Legislativa ve stavebnictví. ČVUT Praha, Fakulta stavební, 2000.
Ziegenbein, K.: Controlling. Ludwigshafen, Kiel, 1995.

Recommended reading

Fuller, D.: Vést nebo být veden. London, 1986.
Hájek, V., a kol.: Řízení stavební firmy. ČKAIT, 1999.
Kadlčáková A.: Ceny, náklady, kalkulace. ČVUT Praha, Fakulta stavební, 2000.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch S , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch S , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch S , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Boris Biely

Syllabus

1.Basic terms of the Commercial Code for the establishment and operation of construction companies, alternatives of obligation relations, parties in the construction, their right and obligations
2. Supplier systems of construction, Contract for Work (sub-contractor, ordering client), financing of constructions
3. Principals of successful management, inter-personal relationships in the management process, transformation of a specialist in a manager, motivation of managers and subordinates, control and operation features of general management principles, delegation of competence and responsibility
4. Specific features of building production, production plan, balance of sources
5. Organisation of construction companies with stress laid on production section and its links
6. Initial data files for construction management, realisation documentation, production and operation preparation
7. Passing over and take-over of the site, obligations of individual entities
8. Planning as an integral part of the management, operational plan and its link to production calculation and accounting files
9. Supporting sections of the construction management at the level of a company, dispatch, specialised centres, mechanisation
10. Work management and organisation on site, obligations of the main contractor´s site managers (chief site managers), contractor´s site managers, foremen
11. Agenda of the site manager, basic documents on the course of work on site, keeping of builder´s log, care for building production quality, quality inspection
12. Care for occupational safety and work hygiene from the point of view of the employer and employees
13. Acceptance procedure in relation to sub-contractors and to ordering client, invoicing and final accounting of construction

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Boris Biely

Syllabus

1. Division of the construction into individual construction sites, calculation of the measuring units and their number for the budget costs, construction classification into "JKSO" (individual classification of the constructions) and transfer into CZ-CC (classification of types of constructions). Price calculation for the individual construction units or the whole construction.
2. Requirements for the price calculation of the completion activity of the contractor and the costs connected with the building location. Calculation of the contractor's hourly rate. Elaboration of a calculation schedule (approximate) of the whole construction, use of supportive indicators and software tools.
3. Definition of the structure of a large and small construction enterprise – creation of a bond graph, comments about the advantages and disadvantages of these structures.
4. Composition of a work contract for the construction execution.
5. Construction site handover protocol elaboration, construction handover protocol elaboration - including the small defects and unfinished work, list of the necessary documents.
6. Field trip to a construction site with a special attention to the operative management activity.
7. Completion of a partial budget for a part of the object (at least 3 connected construction parts or technology stages).
8. Partial subsequent time-plan elaboration (bar chart, time-space graph, network graph) for one month for a part of the rough construction and at least 3 technology stages, for example earthworks, foundations, vertical constructions. Resource balance evaluation (manpower, material, mechanical and financial).
9. Operation plan for 2 weeks period from a previously completed schedule including the proposal for necessary resource and the mode of their securing.
10. Completion and contents of a control and trial plan for one month period or 3 technology stages for previously completed time advancement of the construction.
11. Elaboration of security risks and environmental plans of the construction for previously written time plan for 1 month period or 3 technology stages.
12. Elaboration of operational procedure on the construction for 2 weeks period in the building log book and writing in the introductory pages. Report elaboration from one inspection day.
13. Assignments check-up, credits.