MEHRAN UNIUVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

FRM-001/00QSP-004
Dec.01.2001

TENTATIVE TEACHING PLAN

DEPARTMENT/INSTITUTE/DIRECTORATE: CIVIL ENGINEERING
Name of Teacher: Prof. Dr. Tauha Hussain Ali
Subject: Construction Management & Planning

Batch: 07CE Year: Final Term: Final

Term Starting Date: 19-07-2010

Term Suspension Date: 07 -11-2010

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Lecture
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TOPICS

Introduction and overview of the subject.

Construction Management /Engineering, their characteristics, objectives
and functions
Constructions industry, players and their roles, types and organizational
hierarchy
Project Management, identification of project, project life cycle, project
stake holders
Functions of project management, skills and responsibilities of managers
Engineering contracts, procurement methods, types and contractual
relationship
Miscellaneous topics in contract administration
Introduction to value engineering and its objectives
Introduction to engineering economics, time value of money,
compounding and discounting, cash flow diagrams and examples
exercise
Project financial appraisal, methods, depreciation, types
Introduction to planning and scheduling in construction
Types and tools for planning and scheduling, WBS
planning and scheduling by different techniques, bar chart, Gantt chart,
A-O-A
A-O-N, critical path method (CPM), examples and class exercise
Introduction to precedence diagram method (PDM)
Four different relations examples and class exercise
Crashing network techniques
Program evaluation and review techniques (PERT), examples and class
exercise
Planning and scheduling resources (labour), histograms, LOB technique
Planning and scheduling of resources (materials)
Selection of construction equipments
Factors affecting the selection of equipments, cost of owing and
operating of equipment, depreciation, salvage value
Technical report writing
Revision class
TOTAL

Signature of Teacher:

Dated:

Remarks by DMRC
Signature of Chairman:

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