CivE 406
Construction Estimating, Planning, and Control
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Description
Introduction to elements of construction, planning, scheduling, and cost estimating. Familiarization with quantity take-off, estimate preparation, cost recovery, resource allocation, project scheduling, risk analysis, and bid preparation. Prerequisite: CIV E 303.Learning Outcomes
Conduct bid factor analysis to analytically connect total price with unit prices of bid items in balanced and unbalanced bidding.Apply path float based critical path method for project scheduling and project time cost trade-off optimization analysis.
Distinguish crew production rate and labor productivity definition, evaluation, and analysis in construction planning.
Distinguish components of labor cost and equipment cost and apply practical equations to analyze time-dependent cost elements.
Perform integrated analysis for planning, estimating, and scheduling a typical material-handling problem by an equipment-dominant crew and a typical piece-together problem by a labor-dominant crew.
Apply network model based non-computer approach to plan the use of finite labor resources and account for complex precedence relationships in critical path scheduling.
Analyze “Known Unknowns” for contingency estimating and risk analysis of project schedules by Excel-based Monte Carlo Simulation.
Apply a practical optimization approach based on Excel Solver to achieve cut fill balance and minimize earthwork cost in rough grading.
Apply mass haul diagram based approach for earthwork takeoff and detailed planning in road construction.
Implement an Excel-based earthwork planning method for temporary haul road layout design and total construction cost analysis.
Implement integrated project delivery strategy for workface planning, waste reduction, productivity assessment and cost analysis.
Tackle problem sets of estimating, planning and scheduling based on real world construction projects integrating knowhow of practitioners and data from 3D engineering software and cloud database.
| Lecture | Seminar | Lab | Credits | Total AU |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 0/1 | 3/2 | 3.75 | 47.25 |
| M % | NS % | CS % | ES % | ED % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 25 | 50 | 25 |
None defined
Undergraduate Program(s)
| 2024/2025 - Fall - Civil-coop - Year 5 |
| 2024/2025 - Fall - Civil - Year 4 |
| 2023/2024 - Fall - Civil-coop - Year 5 |
| 2023/2024 - Fall - Civil - Year 4 |
| 2022/2023 - Fall - Civil-coop - Year 5 |
| 2022/2023 - Fall - Civil - Year 4 |
| 2021/2022 - Fall - Civil-coop - Year 5 |
| 2021/2022 - Fall - Civil - Year 4 |
| 2020/2021 - Fall - Civil-coop - Year 5 |
| 2020/2021 - Fall - Civil - Year 4 |
| 2019/2020 - Fall - Civil-coop - Year 5 |
| 2019/2020 - Fall - Civil - Year 4 |
Sections & Respective Instructors
| A1 - 2024/2025 - Fall - Ahmed Hammad & Salam Khalife |
| A1 - 2023/2024 - Fall - Ming Lu & Vicente A. González |
| A1 - 2022/2023 - Fall - Ming Lu |
| A1 - 2021/2022 - Fall - Ming Lu |
| A1 - 2020/2021 - Fall - Ming Lu |
| A1 - 2019/2020 - Fall - Ming Lu |