WITH EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013- 2014
CE 451
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION
Instruction 4 Periods per week
Duration of University Examination 3 Hours
University Examination 75 Marks
Sessional 25 Marks
UNIT-I
Significance of construction management: objectives and functions of construction management, construction management team, principles of organization and types of organisation.
UNIT-II
Construction Planning: Large scale production, economies of large scale production. Construction planning, bar charts, network techniques in construction management, CPM and PERT.
UNIT-III
Time Cost Analysis: Cost time analysis in network planning, updating, simple problems of civil engineering works.
Time estimate: Expected likely, pessimistic and optimistic time, normal distribution curve and network problems.
UNIT-IV
Contracts: Introduction, types of construction contracts and their advantages and disadvantages, conditions of contracts, , safety in construction and safety measures, workmen compensation act, contract labour act. Demolition of buildings.
Tender : Tender form, Tender Documents, Tender Notice, Work Order. Project Delivery Methods : BOT, SBOO, BOOT; Public Private Partnership (PPP), Detailed Project Report (DPR)
UNIT-V
Optimization: Optimisation through linear programming, need for linear programming, linear programming model, graphical method, simplex method and linear programming in construction.
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Suggested Reading:
- 1.Srinath L.S., PERT and CPM: Principles and Application, East-West Press, 1975.
- 2.Peter, F (2009), Construction Project Management an Integrated Approach. Taylor and Francies, Taylor and Francies Group, London & New York.
- 3.Punmia B.C., and Khandelwal, PERT and CPM, Lakshmi Publications, 1990.
- 4.Gahlot. P.S. and Dhiv. B.M., Construction Planning and Management, Wiley Eastern Ltd., 1992.
- 5.Mahesh Varma, Construction Planning and Equipment,
Metropolitan Book Co. Pvt. Ltd., 1985.