Academics Course

Course Details

1 Title of the course
(L-T-P-C)		 Construction Engineering and Management
(2-1-0-6)
2 Pre-requisite courses(s)
3 Course content Fundamentals of construction project management: Introduction, Project Initiation, and Planning, Time Value of Money, Investment Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis; Construction schedule management: Work Breakdown Structures, Development of project activity networks, Precedence Diagram Method, Critical Path Method (CPM), Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Line Balance Methods in scheduling.

Construction material management: Resources in construction, Resource levelling, the crashing of project schedules, earned value analysis

Construction Quality and safety: Safety and occupational hazards in construction, Fundamentals of quality control in construction, Safety in construction - Cost of Accidents - Safety norms - Safety aids

ntroduction to Construction Contracts: Estimation, Tenders & Contracts - EOI- Prequalification - Types of Contracts - Terminology used, fundamentals of delay analysis and claims, Construction Finances – decision making,

Advances in construction management: Introduction to Building Information Modelling (BIM), Lean construction, and Integrated Project Delivery in construction
4 Texts/References
  1. Kumar Neeraj Jha, “Construction Project Management: theory and practice” Pearson Education India; 2nd edition, 2015.
  2. F. Lawrence Bennett, “The Management of Construction: A Project Lifecycle Approach”, Routledge; 1st edition, 2016.
  3. 3. S. Choudhury “Project Management”, McGraw Hill Education, 2017.
  4. Riggs, James L., David D. Bedworth, and Sabah U. Randhawa., “Engineering Economics”, McGraw Hill Education; 4th edition, 2004.
    5. li>Garold D. Oberlender, “Project management for engineering and construction”, McGraw Hill Education; Second edition, 2014.li>Chitkara, K. K. “Construction Project Management”, McGraw-Hill; Forth Edition, 2019.

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