CONST 260 - Project Management

Credits 5
Learn about project organization and the role of scheduling, quality assurance, safety management, cost control, and recordkeeping. Includes factors that affect how company decisions are made, implemented and evaluated. Understand management styles and procedures for how general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers coordinate, negotiate, and resolve disputes.
Prerequisite(s): CONST 101, CONST 140, CONST 160, CONST 183, CONST 202, and CONST 230, CONST 270, CONST 280.

Course Outcomes

Apply a construction schedule to the execution of project work in progress and appraise its value in meeting cost, schedule, and profitability performance.
Identify with and recognize quality performance issues in the process of executing construction work; arrange corrective actions.
Recognize and apply the concept of risk management in construction project management and the execution of work.
Use construction project schedules and construction budgets and apply management decision-making technique to construction case study scenarios in change and conflict.
Identify, relate to, and value the importance of recordkeeping and tracking construction documentation on a typical building construction project; to include managing submittals important submittals like shop drawings, manufacturers’ data, and material samples.
Describe the importance of recognizing change in a construction project, and formulating a workflow plan/process justifying change in the course of construction project execution.
Plan, prepare, and generate change management procedure(s) and policy. Recognize the value of change and addressing the need to adapt to and synthesize change in a prompt and organized manner.
Identify with and explain the importance of establishing a Communications Plan; illustrate and highlight the importance of stakeholders in a construction management community, and realize the importance of all stakeholders in a project.
Name, select, understand, and apply generally-accepted construction project management principles, documents, tools, and techniques in executing work in a building construction project environment.in a construction environment.