Course Overview
Covers building and construction industry infrastructure, project initiation, team organization, construction contracts, bidding processes, material take off and pricing includes cost accounting, scheduling, labour and labour relations and environmental health and safety. Applications are applied to examples of work using samples for cost and labour.
Prerequisite(s)
- 50% in MSYS 3386
Credits
4.0
- Retired
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Prepare a productive wage rate for a team of workers based on an evaluation of site and labour conditions.
- Prepare a materials takeoff of all mechanical systems from a set of working drawings.
- Price systems components and determine labour costs.
- Describe the components of construction contract documents.
- Describe bidding procedures for obtaining a contract.
- Describe the organizing structure that should be established for project coordination and site supervision.
- Prepare project schedule using GANTT and CRITICAL PATH strategies.
- Identify criteria for employing workers.
- Explain applicable health, safety and environmental requirements for workers.
- Describe procedures required in preparation for construction.
- Describe use of progress reports for construction management and cost accounting.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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