Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

The current subject “Project design” is organized into five main groups of activities: two of them run by the teacher (lectures and problems), another carry out by the students and teacher jointly, a forth one consisting of self-study and finally the assessment written test:

• Lectures: in which the teacher will explain the theorical concepts of the subject topics.
• Practical sessions: The teacher will explain the practical application on the concepts developed at the theorical lectures, resolving practical problems. This session will take place at the classroom or at the computer laboratory.
• Tutorship practical sessions: Using technical software at the computer laboratory students will resolve, individually or in groups of two of them, the practical applications of concepts detailed in above paragraphs. Depending on the duration of these practices it can be only initiated at class time and later on finished as a non-class activity bases.
• Assessment written test: Students will demonstrate the knowledge gained through two not mutually exclusive methods. One by continuing assessment throughout the course or, if these midterms tests are not passed successfully, a global written test on two calls.
• Personal study: Non-class activities in which students have to study the topics learnt at the class activities in order to understand and assimilate the theory taught in lectures and train the practical cases solved in the practical classes and prepare the written test.

Besides these activities there will be individual tutorials based on personalized attention by the teacher in order to help and resolve doubts and questions about the specific areas in which students have found more difficulties to be understood.

5.2. Learning tasks

To the activity groups mentioned at the previous section the following workload has been assigned:

• Lectures / Theoretical classes                     11 hours          
• Practical classes                                        2 hours           
• Tutorship practical sessions                                   38 hours          
• Assesment written test                               9 hours
• Personal study                                           90 hours                      

According this hours distribution a total 150 hours workload is reached, corresponding to the 6 credits  ECTS that the subject has assigned during the second quarter of the third course of the Civil Engineer Bachellor´s degree.

These 150 hours involve 15 week of class.

Individual tutorials are scheduled in a two hours per week basis.

5.3. Syllabus

To reach the subject aims, this one is structured in 9 topics.

The detailed content of these topics is as follows:

TOPIC 1.       GENERAL ASPECTS OF A CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECT

1.1.       The civil Works as an instrument of society

1.2.       Civil Works requirements

1.3.        Civil Works´ concept  and its implementation: different types of project design and studies referred at the Road & Railway  Laws

1.4.       Project:  concept and definition

1.5.       Civil corks life cycle and its influence on its concept and design

1.6.       Basic elements to be consider into a civil Works project design

1.7.       Terrain forced expropriation law

TOPIC 2.       PROJECT DESIGN CONTRACT CONCERNING TO PUBLIC WORKS

2.1.       Legislation concerning to public sector contracting

2.2.       Process  / sequence of the tender and award of public contracts

2.3.       A project design as a type of public contract

2.4.       Requirement to fulfil  in order to contract a project design

2.5.       Preparatory actions previous to a work contract

2.6.       Award of project design contracts

2.7.       Specific contracting law articles  concerning services contracts

TOPIC 3.       PREVIOUS STUDIES: FEASIBILITY STUDIES

3.1.       Introduction

3.2.       Feasibility studies aims

3.3.       General methodology

3.3.1.           General conditions, content and format

3.3.2.           Input data and project environment knowledge

3.3.3.           Technical study - Alternatives

3.3.4.           Economic study

3.3.5.           Environmental study

3.3.6.           Other ítems to consider

3.4.       Tools supporting decisión making

3.5.       Multicriteria decisión models. General features

3.6.       Method of “Weighted averages approach”

3.7.       PRESS method

3.8.       Other multicriteria methods

TOPIC 4.       PROJECT DESIGN STANDARD DOCUMENTS

4.1.       Introduction

4.2.       Basic concept on standarization

4.3.       Process to develop an European standard (UNE)

4.4.       Purpose and background of the “Professional collegiate authorisation”

4.5.       Origin and rationale of the standards series 157000

4.6.       The AEN / CTN 157 committee “Proyects”

4.7.       UNE 157001

4.7.1.           Rationale, purpose and scope

4.7.2.           General requirements

4.7.3.           Project design basic documents content

4.8.       The family of UNE 157001 standards

4.9.       Conclusions

TOPIC 5.       DRAWINGS

5.1.       Introduction

5.2.       Designing

5.3.       Formal expression

5.3.1.           Outline

5.3.2.           Standard formats

5.3.3.           Drawing data box

5.4.       Delineation

5.4.1.           Dimension data

5.4.2.           Labeling

5.4.3.           Scales

5.5.       General content

5.6.       Specific content depending on drawing topics

5.6.1.           Situation

5.6.2.           Work overview  / general definition

5.6.3.           Setting out top view

5.6.4.           General top view

5.6.5.           Longitudinal diagram

5.6.6.           Standard section

5.6.7.           Cross sections

5.6.8.           Structures

5.6.9.           Replacement of affected services

5.6.10.       Expropiations

TOPIC 6.       SPECIFICATION

6.1.       Introduction

6.2.       Specification porpous

6.3.       Specification structure

6.4.       Specification scope

6.5.       Normative

6.6.       Description of the works

6.7.       Materials

6.8.       Facilities and equipment

6.9.       Execution of the works

6.10.    Quality assurance

6.11.    Measurement and evaluation

6.12.    Other specifications

6.13.    Particular site Works conditions

TOPIC 7.       MEASUREMENTS, VALUATIONS AND WORKS ESTIMATES

7.1.       Introduction

7.2.       Works units

7.2.1.           Definition and its writting

7.2.2.           Definitions examples

7.3.       Measurements

7.3.1.           Auxiliary measurements

7.3.2.           Measurements of the work units

7.3.3.           Measurement examples

7.3.4.           Linking with the work schedule

7.3.5.           Ratios measurement

7.4.       Price calculation

7.4.1.           Stages

7.4.2.           Type of costs

7.4.3.           Workforce

7.4.4.           Materials

7.4.5.           Machinery

7.4.6.           Indirect costs

7.4.7.           Auxiliary prices

7.4.8.           Unit prices

7.4.9.           Lump sum payment units

7.5.       Prices lists

7.5.1.           Unit prices list

7.5.2.           Broken down prices list

7.5.3.           Price ratios

7.6.       Works estimates

7.6.1.           Partial and chapters estimates

7.6.2.           Quality assurance and health and safety estimates

7.6.3.           Woks estimates global sum

7.6.4.           Works estimates for public employer understanding

TOPIC 8.       QUALITY PLAN OF A PROJECT

8.1.       Quality concept

8.2.       ISO 9000

8.3.       Quality assurance plan of a work

8.4.       Quality assurance plan of a project

8.5.       Final thoughts

TOPIC 9.       THE PROJECT REPORT AND ITS ANNEXES

9.1.       Projects documents and their interrelationships

9.2.       The project document No. 1

9.2.1.           Normative

9.2.2.           Content and overall structure

9.2.3.           Relationship with previous studies

9.3.       Project report

9.3.1.           Structuring proposal

9.3.2.           Contenido

9.3.3.           Variantes

9.4.       Project report annexes

9.4.1.           Annexes structuring

9.4.2.           Basic information annex

9.4.3.           Solutions study annex

9.4.4.           Technical and constructive annexes

9.4.5.           Economical and Time of phases completion annexes

9.4.6.           Supplementary annexes

9.4.7.           Odd annexes

9.4.8.           Relevant annexes

9.5.       Final thoughts

For the practical learning of the theorical content of the subject the following projects will be carry out by the students synchronized in time with the theorical contents:

1. Road
2. Sanitation pipeline network or irrigation ditch
3. Water supply network and irrigation
4. Bridge abutment or concrete work

5.4. Course planning and calendar

Planning

The theorical and practical workload of the different topics is distributed according the table below:

S.-            Theorical sesions / lectures

P.-            Practical sesions /Problems

PT.-          Computer lab workshop

E.-            Written assesment test

TI.-           Personal study

 DESIGNATION OF SESSIONS ACCORDING TO THE WORKLOAD

(Eg. Designation meaning:   PT-7210.-  Tutorial practice corresponding to the topic 7, sesión 2 of 10)

CALENDAR

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

Basic biblyography

• Organización y gestión de proyectos y obras  de los autores Germán Martínez Montes y Eugenio Pellicer Almiñana (Editorial Mc Graw Hill).
• Proyectos en licitación publicados en la página web oficial del Ministerio de Fomento.
• Valoración de obras en Ingeniería civil (Gonzalo de Fuentes Bescos)
• Pliego de prescripciones técnicas para obras de carretera y puentes (PG-3; MFOM)
• Real Decreto Legislativo 3/2011 por el que se aprueba el texto refundido de la Ley de Contratos del Sector Público. (TRLCSP) (BOE núm 276 ; 16nov2011)
• Presto . Tercera Edición. (Mc Graw Hill; R. de Benito Arango y A.J. Sánches Granda)
• Autocad aplicado a la topografía (Editoríal Politécnica de Valencia; Joaquín Gaspar Mora Navarro) o la nueva versión “Autocad aplicado a la ingeniería civil”

Complementary bibliografy

• Aspectos a considerar en la redacción de estudios y proyectos de obras civiles. Cuadernos CICCP núm. 16.
• Procedimientos generales de construcción y organización de obras de Antonio Lara Galera (Editorial Cuadernos ES ICCP Madrid).