Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

The current subject “Construction work management” 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                     18 hours          
• Practical classes                                        7 hours           
• Tutorship practical sessions                       26 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 12 topics grouped into 4 educational units.

The detailed contents of these topics is as follows:

EDUCATIONAL UNIT I: PUBLIC CONSTUCTION WORKS TENDERING

TOPIC 1.            GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS AT CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECTS

1.1.    Civil engineer Project: general concept and definition

1.2.    Systemic concept of construction projects

1.3.    Civil engineering projects types

1.4.    The Project and its environment

1.5.    Phases and life cycles of a project

1.6.    Agents and stakeholders

1.7.    Construction company structure

1.7.1. Construction company organization chart

1.7.2. Department´s  roles

1.7.3. Store and warehauses

1.7.4. Safe and safety department

1.7.5. Quality department

1.8.    Project management: Planning, Organization, Execution and control.

TOPIC 2.          WORKS TENDERING ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR

2.1.    Construction contract

2.1.1. Current legislation on public contracting

2.1.2. Contract types

2.1.3. The construction contract

2.1.4. The public contracting body

2.1.5. Conditions required to get a public contract

2.1.6. Construction Company qualification required

2.1.7. Guarantees

2.1.8. Objet and price of a public contract

2.1.9. Processing of the contracting files

2.1.10.                Biding documents (Economical and Technical)

2.2.    Tendering, biding , offer document, and contracts award

2.2.1. Contract award proceeding types

2.2.2. Physical construction budget / Tendering construction budget

2.2.3. Costs to be consider on bidding

2.2.4. Initial planning estimation

2.2.5. Execution bid / Technical and economical

2.2.6. Coefficient of contract award, recklessness

2.2.7. Contract awarding

2.2.8. Forms of provide a security right (Guarantee)

2.2.9. Software tools to help for drawing up a cost assessment for a biding (PRESTO, spreadsheet Excel)

EDUCATIONAL UNIT II:                 PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION WORKS ORGANIZATION

TOPIC 3.          PLANNING TECHNIQUES

3.1.    Project planning

3.1.1. Work  structure breakdown  (WSB)

3.1.2. General planning process

3.2.    Generalities about arrow diagrams

3.3.    Time-space diagram

3.4.    Gantt diagram

3.5.    Crital path method (C.P.M) diagram

3.6.    Program evaluation review technique (P.E.R.T) diagram

3.7.    Precedence diagram method (PDM)

TOPIC 4.          CONSTRUCTION WORKS ORGANIZATION

4.1.    Work contract award

4.2.    Contract completation and sign

4.3.    The act of topographic survey

4.4.    Contract resolution before works start

4.5.    Pre-works

4.5.1. Health and safety plan

4.5.2. Communication of the opening of the work center

4.5.3. The act of verification of topographic survey

4.5.4. Implementation / deployment

4.5.5. Affected services

4.6.    Construction work general organization chart

4.7.    Work site manager

4.8.    Assistant to work site manager

4.9.    Technical and topographic office

4.10.Administrative tasks

4.11.Work site organization

4.12.Supply and material reception

4.13.Woks management

4.14.Survellance, control and works supervision

TOPIC 5.          CONSTRUCTION WORKS PLANNING

5.1.    Technical planning

5.1.1. Resources allocation to a project

5.1.2. Resources allocation methods

5.1.3. Resourses allocation

5.1.4. Resourse leveling

5.1.5. Resources histogram

5.2.    Economical planning

5.2.1. Minimum cost programming method

5.2.2. Time-cost relationship

5.2.3. Cost curve

5.2.4. Time optimization

5.2.5. Ackoff – Sasieni mathematic algorithm

TOPIC 6.          PLANNING SOFTWARE TOOLS

6.1.    MS Project

6.2.    Excel worksheet

6.3.    PRESTO

EDUCATIONAL UNIT III:               CONSTRUCTION WORKS EXECUTION AND CONTROL

TOPIC 7.          CONSTRUCTION WORKS EXECUTION MONITORING

7.1.    Purchasing management

7.2.    Executed tasks control

7.3.    Payment certifications

7.4.    Price review formulas and reference indices.

7.5.    Quality control

7.5.1. Quality concept

7.5.2. Standard ISO 9000

7.5.3. Quality management

7.5.4. Quality assurance plan

7.5.5. Inspection and control points programme

7.6.    Documentation on work site

7.6.1. Orders and assistance log book

7.6.2. Safe & Safety log book

7.6.3. Subcontracting log book

7.6.4. Daily operations diary

7.6.5. Task report

7.6.6. Storehouse and warehause reports

TOPIC 8.          COST CONTROL

8.1.    Concept of cost and relativity of it

8.2.    Difference between spending, cost and payment

8.3.    Classification of costs

8.4.    Payment certifications planning

8.5.    Costs planning

8.6.    Cash flow study

8.7.    Comparative study: initial bid / Price target / real execution

TOPIC 9.          CONTROL SOFTWARE TOOLS

9.1.    Spreadsheet : Payment certifications / Prices review

9.2.    PRESTO: Payment certifications / Price comparative studies/real execution cost /target cost

9.3.    MS Project: Work execution monitoring

TOPIC 10.       INCIDENCIES DURING WORK EXECUTION

10.1.Indemnification in case of force majeure

10.2.Missed deadlines

10.3.Legal modifications in construction works contracts

10.4.Works suspension

10.5.Time frame modifications and readjustment of annuities

10.6.Contract assigment to another contractor and subcontracting

10.7.Contract resolution

TOPIC 11.       LIQUIDATION OF THE CONSTRUCTION WORK

11.1.Completion of the work

11.2.Reception of the work

11.3.Final payment certification

11.4.Contract liquidation

11.5.Guarantee period

11.6.Processing and return of guarantees

EDUCATIONAL UNIT  IV:              PROJECT MANAGEMENT

TOPIC 12.       PROJECT MANAGEMENT

12.1.Project management

12.2.Main international satndards: PMI, IPMA.

12.3.Standard UNE-ISO 21500 “Guidance on project mangement”

12.3.1.                Aim and field of application

12.3.2.                Terms and definitions

12.3.3.                Project management concepts

12.3.4.                Processes considered

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-723.-  Tutorial practice corresponding to the topic 7, sesion 2 of 3)

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

Basic bibliography

• Organización y gestión de proyectos y obras  de los autores Germán Martínez Montes y Eugenio Pellicer Almiñana (Editorial Mc Graw Hill).
• Procedimientos generales de construcción y organización de obras de Antonio Lara Galera (Editorial Cuadernos ES ICCP Madrid).
• Planificación Técnica (CICCP; Carlos Tutor Larrosa)

Normativa de consulta

• Real decreto legislativo Texto refundido de la Ley de contratos del sector público TRLCSP 3/2011 (BOE núm 276 ; 16nov2011).
• Reglamento general de la Ley de contratos de las Administraciones Públicas (RD 1098/2001 ; B.O.E. 257 de 26-oct-01)

Complementary bBibliography

• Presto . Tercera Edición. (Mc Graw Hill; R. de Benito Arango y A.J. Sánches Granda)
• Planificación gráfica de obras (Editorial Gustavo Gili ; Juan Pomares Martínez)
• Organización y control de obras (Universidad de Cantabria; Carlos Fresno; Aja Setién)

Normativa de consulta

• Ley 32/2006  de subcontratación del sector de la construcción