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

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

The latter is further subdivided into 3 modules:
ME & CP - Module 1 - M. Massanelli;
ME & CP - Module 2 - S. Magnani;
ME & CP - Module 3 - U. M. Coraglia

Module 2, deals mainly with the theoretical part of Managing Engineering and Construction Processes and foresees a final test with open and multiple answers.
Modules 1 and 3, on the other hand, involve the classroom development of a project that will be subject to a final assessment.

Each course includes dedicated lectures and practical classroom exercises.

Both courses address common topics treated from different points of view.

Regular attendance of both courses and their modules is recommended as the final assessment will be a single one, through the average of the marks received.

Depending on the number of students enrolled, students may be divided into groups to develop the final project work.

Assessment methods

The final assessment consists of the average of the marks obtained through the following assessment methods:

Construction and Facility Management - Preparation and presentation of a paper on a specific topic from among those covered during the lectures;
ME & CP - Module 2 - S. Magnani - Open and multiple-choice tests on the topics covered;
ME & CP - Module 1 & 3 - M. Massanelli and U. M. Coraglia - Practical project developed in the classroom, in groups of a maximum of 3 students.

A minimum score of 18/30 (eighteen/thirty) on each test is compulsory for the final assessment.

Teaching tools

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

Office hours

See the website of Ugo Maria Coraglia

See the website of

See the website of Sonja Magnani