11170 - Building Site Organisation

Learning outcomes

Main course task is to learn to plan, to schedule and to control technical and economical activities that aim to optimise the production process, and to execute design choices.

Course contents

1.      Planning and scheduling of construction projects. Construction planning tools: barcharts, Location Based Planning Systems, Critical Path Method CPM, Precedence Diagramming Method PDM and Program Evaluation and Review Technique PERT. Time / cost trade-off. Resource optimization: traditional method, minimum moment method. Project control. The Earned Value Method.

2.     Building site health and safety. Health and safety laws and regulations for construction. Responsibility of professionals and of workers. Safety plans and safety technical codes. Building site layout, scaffoldings, site power plant, demolition, excavation. Noise, vibration and chemical related hazards.

 3.      Building process and professionals: owner, designer, general contractor, subcontractors, technical element suppliers, project supervisor, production manager, testing surveyor. Construction companies and construction industry: history, organization, legal assesment, work specialization, enterprising activity. Bidding analysis. Different bidding systems, different types of building design, working design documents; analysis of design for construction; analysis of laws and technical codes for construction concerning materials quality control, occupational health and safety and project supervision's codes of practice. Public works: construction phase. Public Works laws and regulations: general issues, bidding accounting, professionals' responsibility.

4.      Cost engineering and economical assessment of construction projects. Budgeting: direct and indirect costs; site and company costs; fixed costs and variable costs; estimate costs and final statement costs. Accounting methods in bidding contracts. Economic parameters for equipment selection. Cost accounting. Construction project cost control.

5.      Design of construction operations. Analysis of construction processes, work classification, time and resource assessment of construction activities; Construction equipment, equipment choice, productivity, costs and maintenance. Equipment amortization. Control of construction process and quality control. Activity plan and economical resource plan. Different types of construction site. Site layout and its elements and connections.

Readings/Bibliography

• Bragadin Marco A., La programmazione dei lavori con i metodi reticolari, Maggioli 2008
• Moro Andrea M. Il Piano di Sicurezza e Coordinamento. Ed. Dario Flaccovio, 2010.
• Guizzardi Roberto, Elementi di Organizzazione del Cantiere, Ed. Il mio libro, 2009
• Course notes.
• Rigamonti Giuseppe - La Gestione dei Processi di Intervento Edilizio. Utet 2001
• Gottfried A., Trani M.L.; Manuale di Sicurezza nei Cantieri Edili Hoepli 2002
• Lacava M., Solustri C.; Progetto e Sicurezza del Cantiere Ed.Carocci 1997
• Picone M. “Tecnologia della Produzione edilizia”, Utet, 1984.
• Auteri A. Dibennardo U. Pasqua A. “Il cantiere edile” NIS Roma 1996.
• Amato R. Chiappi R. “Tecniche di project management” FrancoAngeli, Milano.
• Flores A., Conti M. “Manuale della sicurezza nel cantiere”, Il sole 24 ore Pirola, Milano, 1998.
• Gottfried A., Trani M.L. (a cura di) “Il coordinatore per la sicurezza nelle costruzioni in fase di progettazione ed esecuzione” Maggioli, Rimini, 1997.
• Zignoli V. “Costruzioni edili”, Utet, Torino, 1974.

Teaching methods

In - class lessons, mandatory homework assignments, project- work

Assessment methods

Final exam:

In - class quizzes or exercises.

Oral exam is mandatory.

Homework will be evaluated and discussed in final exam.

Teaching tools

Personal Computer, Projector, homework and building site visit.

Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/docenti/marcoalvise.bragadin

Office hours

See the website of Marco Alvise Bragadin

See the website of Andrea Moro