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 |
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Undergraduate Program(s)
| 2026/2027 - Fall - Civil-coop - Year 5 |
| 2026/2027 - Fall - Civil - Year 4 |
| 2025/2026 - Fall - Civil-coop - Year 5 |
| 2025/2026 - Fall - Civil - Year 4 |
| 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 - 2026/2027 - Fall - Lynn Shehab |
| A1 - 2025/2026 - Fall - Lynn Shehab |
| 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 |