35493 - Managing Engineering and Construction Processes

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be able to: perform an economic evaluation of the building construction processes; plan the activities related to the maintenance and management of the building heritage; carry out management and control activities in the field of Global service.

Course contents

Prior knowledge requirements

Both fluent spoken and written English is needed as a prerequisite as all lectures and study material will be in English.

In order to properly understand the contents of this course is required a prior knoledge and understanding of basic site building management and building systems.

In addition, students should master software programs that uses spreadsheets to organize numbers and data with formulas, functions and graphics.

Course Contents

1. 
   INTRODUCTION
   • A.1.Life Cicle Cost overview
     • A.1.1.Life Cicle Cost (LCC) and Whole Life Cost (WLC)
     • A.1.2.Present Value (PV)
     • A.1.3.Data Driven Decision – LCC application
       • A.1.3.1.Cash Payment vs Mortgage Payment
       • A.1.3.2.Prefabricated building vs Traditional building
       • A.1.3.3.High energy performance building vs Low energy performance building
   • A.2.Project management triangle: Cost – time - scope
   • A.3.Construction Management – Facility Management
2. CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
   • B.1.Design levels
     • B.1.1.Draft design
     • B.1.2.Preliminary design
     • B.1.3.Definitive design
     • B.1.4.Executive design
   • B.2.Tender
     • B.2.1.Types of bids: open & closed
     • B.2.2.Selection methods
       • B.2.2.1.Low-bid selection
       • B.2.2.2.Best-value selection
       • B.2.2.3.Qualifications-based selection
       • B.2.2.4.Other procurement procedures (cost plus time,…)
     • B.2.3.Payment contracts
       • B.2.3.1.Unitprice
       • B.2.3.2.Lump sum
       • B.2.3.3.Other payment provisions (cost plus fee, guaranteed maximum price, …)
     • B.2.4.Delivery methods
       • B.2.4.1.Design -Bid – Built
       • B.2.4.2.Design – Built
       • B.2.4.3.Other contract models (CM at risk, Public-Private partnerships,…)
   • B.3.Building site management overview: Planning & Scheduling (WBS, PERT, GANTT, Resourse Histogram, Budgeting)
   • B.4.Cost and time management
     • B.4.1.Construction project cost analysis
     • B.4.2.Unit price analysis
     • B.4.3.Time and labor
     • B.4.4.Time and Costs estimates in construction phases
       • B.4.4.1.Design estimates
       • B.4.4.2.Bids estimates
       • B.4.4.3.Construction control estimates
   • B.5.Roles: construction management organization chart
3. FACILITY MANAGEMENT
   • C.1.Definition
     • C.1.1.Soft Facility - Hard Facility
   • C.2.Maintenace terminology
     • C.2.1.Corrective/Improvement/Preventive
   • C.3.Maintenace strategy – selection criteria
   • C.4.RCM – Reliability Centred Maintenance
   • C.5.Maintenance Manual
   • C.6.Facility Management Contract

Readings/Bibliography

Lectures are supported by slides that collect all lessons topics and will be available at unibo class notes site: https://virtuale.unibo.it/

Quick start readings (further links to online documents will be provided):

• EN 13306:2010 - Maintenance — Maintenance terminology
• ISO 15686-5:2017 - Buildings and constructed assets — Service life planning — Part 5: Life-cycle costing

• DfD Design for Disassembly in the built environment: a guide to closed-loop design and building - Author: Brad Guy; Nicholas Ciarimboli; Hamer Center for Community Design. - [University Park, Penn.] : Hamer Center, [2008] - website: http://www.lifecyclebuilding.org/docs/DfDseattle.pdf

• RICS professional guidance, UK Life cycle costing 1st edition, April 2016 website:https://www.rics.org/globalassets/rics-website/media/upholding-professional-standards/sector-standards/construction/black-book/life-cycle-costing-1st-edition-rics.pdf

Teaching methods

The course is a part of the “93720 PROJECT MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP I.C.” learning activity which includes the following two courses:

• Construction and Facility Management
• Managing Engineering and Construction Processes

Each course provides dedicated specific lectures and practical exercises.

Both courses deal with common topics treated from different points of view: it is therefore recommended to attend both courses regularly.

The class deals mainly with the theoretical part of Managing Engineering and Construction Processes but may include some practical exercises and involves the classroom development of a project or.

Assessment methods

The final assessment of both "Construction and Facility Management" and "Managing Engineering and Construction Processes" will be a unique mark consisting in the average of the results obtained in both courses exams.

The final exam of "Managing Engineering and Construction Processes" consists in the discussion of a project developed in the classroom and in a brief oral test.

Teaching tools

Notebook, projector, in-class exercises and project work.

Office hours

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