Construction Management Semester 8 (BE Fourth Year) BE Civil Engineering University of Mumbai Topics and Syllabus

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University of Mumbai Semester 8 (BE Fourth Year) Construction Management and their Unit wise marks distribution

#	Unit/Topic	Marks
100	Introduction to Construction Management	-
200	Construction Projects	-
300	Construction Project Planning and Scheduling	-
400	Resources Management and Allocation	-
500	Project Monitoring and Cost Control	-
600	Safety and Health on Construction Sites	-
700	Quality Control	-
800	Construction Labors and Legislation	-
	Total	-

100 Introduction to Construction Management

Concept of Management, Principles of management, contribution by eminent personalities towards growth of management thoughts.
Significance of construction, management, objectives and functions of construction management
Resources required for construction.

200 Construction Projects

Unique features of construction industry.
Construction projects- classification, characteristics life cycle concept of project etc.
Roles and responsibilities of various agencies associated with a Construction project.
Pre-requisites of commencing construction work sanctions, approvals to be sought, and feasibility studies.
Site layout, organizing and mobilizing the site

300 Construction Project Planning and Scheduling

Stages of planning in the view of owner/Department as well as contractor.
W.B.S, Bar Charts.
Network-Terminology, Network Rules, Fulkerson’s rule, skip numbering, Precedence network etc.
C.P.M - Activity and event with their types, activity times, event times, critical path, forward pass, backward pass, float and its types.
P.E.R.T- Assumption underlying PERT analysis time estimates, slack and its types, probability of completing the project etc.

400 Resources Management and Allocation

Material Management- Importance, objectives, functions of material management, inventory control, A-B-C analysis, E.O.Q etc.
Human Resource Management- Manpower planning, recruitment, Selection training, performance evaluation of worker etc.
Financial Management- accounting and Accounting principles, source of finance, cash flows associated with project, time value of money, economic appraisal criterias for project.
Resources Allocation Methods- Resource leveling resource smoothening.
Introduction to project Management MS Project and PRIMAVERA

500 Project Monitoring and Cost Control

Supervision, record keeping, Periodic progress reports etc.
Updating- Purpose of frequency of updating method of updating a network etc.
Time cost optimization in construction projects compression and decompression of network etc.
Common causes of time over run and cost overrun and Corrective measures.

600 Safety and Health on Construction Sites

Common causes of accidents on construction sites, costs of accident, precautionary measures to avoid accidents,
Occupational health hazards in construction industry.
Safety and Health Campaign.
O.S.H.A

700 Quality Control

800 Construction Labors and Legislation

Need for legislation
Acts applicable to Indian construction labours such as payment of wages act, min wages act, workmen’s compensation act, factories act etc.