CLE211CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT Course Pre-requisites: Construction Materials and Technology (CLE 204) Version No. : 1.01 Objectives: 1. To provide techniques to develop personal skills of practical use in the Management and

implementation of Civil Engineering projects 2. To know the Management techniques, the development of personal, interpersonal and

Project Management skills 3. To know the project management skills 4. To provide a fundamental of understanding of the social, economic, resource management

within which the Construction Project takes place. Expected Outcome: Students will be able to 1. Implement generic and special Construction Project Management skills to a higher level 2. Understand the special management skills required in multidisciplinary and global

Construction Industry 3. Integrate and apply theoretical concepts, ideas, tools and techniques to Construction

practice. UNIT I: Principles of Management Definition – Importance – Functions of Management – Relevance to government and Quasi Government departments – Private Contractors – Contracting firms – Organizational structure. UNIT II: Construction Planning and Labour Welfare Collection of field data – Preliminary estimates – Approval and sanction of estimates – Budget provisions – Scheduling using MS project software - Relationships between management and labour – Problems – Labour legislations – Minimum Wages act – Industrial Psychology – Safety procedures in construction – MS Project Application. UNIT III: Management Techniques Concepts of Network – Network methods CPM/PERT – Cost control – Principles – Control by graphical representation, by bill of quantities and by network analysis. UNIT IV: Project Management Tendering - Arbitration - International projects – Detailed Project Reports (DPR) / Build Own Operate (BOO) / Build Own Operate Transfer (BOOT) Projects / Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) – case studies. UNIT V: Accounts and Stores Measurements of work – Checking – Types of bills – Mode of payment – Claims – Banking settlements – Types of accounts - Cash book – Storing – Maintenance Inspection - Inventories – Transfer of surplus and accounting of shortage stores – Procedures adopted in PWD and CPWD. Text Book: 1. Sengupta (2002), Construction Management, Tata McGraw Hill. 2. Construction Management and accounts (2002) by J.L. Sharma, Satya Publications Reference Books: 1. Subramaniam (2001), Construction Management, Anuradha Agencies. 2. Joseph.L (2000), Essential of Management, Prentice Hall of India. 3. Mote Paul and Gupta (2001), Management Economics, Tata McGraw Hill. 4. Manie (2005), Essentials of Management, Prentice Hall of India. Mode of Evaluation: Assignment, Seminar and Written Examination. Recommended by the Board of Studies on: 13/11/2010 Date of approval by the Academic Council: xx/xx/xxxx

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