Course detail

Value Analysis in Construction

FAST-DV57Acad. year: 2009/2010

Value philosophy
Value and price
Production function and costs. Cost curves
Cost analysis
Value and price in various competitive environments
Price policy of company
Price policy of state
Value engineering
Value analysis and profitability

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Costs and prices in the civil engineering, efficiency measuring, utility and benefits as a category in the economic decisions, necessary mathematical apparatus.

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.Value philosophy, the present situation
2.Position of the price generally, costs
3.General principles of the value analysis – summary
4.Processing and evaluation of input information
5.Functional analysis
6.Theme creation, their evaluation
7.Elaboration of variants of the solution
8.Processing and evaluation of the suggestion of solution variants
9.Evaluation of optimal solution variants
10.Typical examples of using of the value analysis in the civil engineering
11.Saves of costs
12.Higher reliability and the lifetime
13.Increasing of the technical and functional level

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Expedient set of methods composition, where the main sense it is the search and the suggestion of the improvement of analyzed construction object functions with the objective to increase its efficiency. It is the analysis of various alternatives of the solution with the review of the set of functions valued from the aspect the importance, when the criteria of the convenience of the solution it is the relative effective value. Mastering of this subject brings the acquisition of the competence to optimize the variant of the structural works delivery from the aspect of all participants of the construction process and also of the needs of all society.

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

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme D-K-C-SI Doctoral

    branch MGS , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme D-P-C-SI Doctoral

    branch MGS , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer