AR3903 Construction and Project Management Syllabus:

AR3903 Construction and Project Management Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES

 To introduce different management techniques suitable for planning and construction projects.
 To enable understanding of management systems for accomplishing the task efficiently in terms of quality, time and cost.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Project management concepts. Objectives, planning, scheduling. Controlling and role of decision. In project management. Traditional management system. Gantt’s approach. Load chart. Progress chart. Development of bar chart, merits and demerits. CPM networks, merits and demerits. PERT network. Introduction to the theory of probability and statistics.

UNIT II PROJECT PROGRAMMING AND CRITICAL PATH METHOD

Project network. Events activity. Dummy. Network rules. Graphical guidelines for Network. Numbering the events. Cycles. Development of network-planning for network construction. Models of network construction. Steps in development of network. Work break down structure. Hierarchies. Critical path method – process, activity time estimate, earliest event time, latest allowable occurrence time, start and finish time of activity, float, critical activity and critical path problems.

UNIT III RESOURCE PLANNING

Cost model- project cost, direct cost, indirect cost, slope curve, total project cost. Optimum duration contracting the network for cost optimisation. Steps in cost optimisation, updating, resource allocation, resource smoothing, resource leveling.

UNIT IV COMPUTERISED PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Creating a new project, building task. Creating resources and assessing costs, refining project. Project tracking, recording actual. Reporting on progress. Analysing financial progress. Introduction to BIM.

UNIT V CONCEPT TO COMMISSIONING

Project feasibility study. Real estate and regulatory strategies. Facility programming and planning. Design management. EPC. testing and commissioning.

OUTCOME

 Ability to understand a project from concept to commissioning, feasibility study and facility programme, design, construction to commissioning.
 Ability to apply project management techniques in achieving objectives of a project like client needs, quality, time and cost.
 An understanding of principles of management, construction scheduling, scope definition and team roles.

TEXTBOOKS

1. Dr. B.C. Punmia and K.K. Khandelwal, ‘Project Planning and Control with PERT and CPM’, Laxmi Publications, 2018.
2. Elaine Marmel, ‘Microsoft Project 2016 Bible’, Prentice Hall, 2016.
3. Sam Kubba, ‘Green Construction Project Management and Cost Oversight’, Elsevier, 2010.

REFERENCES

1. Jerome D. Wiest and Ferdinand K. Levy, ‘A Management Guide to PERT/CPM’, Prentice Hall of India, 1982.
2. Bert Bielefeld, ‘Basics Project Management Architecture’, Birkhauser, 2013.