CONST 230 Planning and Scheduling I (5 credits)
Prerequisite CONST 150, CONST 160, and BTECA 125 with at least a 2.0 in each of these courses.
Course Description
Principles of scheduling and planning to control and manage a construction project. This class requires a 2.0 minimum grade to enroll in subsequent Construction Management courses.
Course Content
Four constraints of construction scheduling: Quality, Time, Costs and Safety
Scheduling and its relationship to quality.
Basic principles of Critical Path Method scheduling
Determination of project activities, their durations and sequencing
Resource loading of schedule
Cost loading of schedule activities
Short interval scheduling techniques
Scheduling
Student Outcomes
- Demonstrate ability to apply principles of schedule development and use to manage a typical construction project.
- Determine the critical path through a project by analysis of all project activities by developing activity durations.
- Resource load a schedule and use that information to analyze flow of work.
- Cost load a schedule and use that information to analyze and manage project cash flow.
- Using computerized industry software, produce a schedule that conforms to time limits based on “critical path planning.”
- Determine the appropriate construction sequence necessary to avoid unsafe working conditions.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:
- Professionalism: Model professionalism in the construction industry through ethics and advocacy; team building; leadership; and mentorship.
- Safety and Accident Prevention: Evaluate the importance of jobsite safety and research strategies that can be used to build a culture of safety.
- Communication: Compose, implement, and assess the efficacy of communications tools used in the construction industry to disseminate technical and professional business information to a diverse audience.
- Analysis and Problem Solving: Analyze projects through the application of mathematics, logic, and technology to solve problems in construction documents; materials and methods; estimating; budgets; and scheduling.
- Planning and Organization: Research, implement, and evaluate construction processes using project planning methods and tools.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking
Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
Instructor, peer, and self-evaluation
Written exam – matching, true/false, multiple choice, essay
Written report
Oral presentation
Completion of out-of-class activities
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