| Semester 2, 2022 Springfield On-campus | |
| Units : | 1 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences |
| School or Department : | School of Surveying & Built Environment |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Staffing
Examiner:
Requisites
Pre-requisite: CMG1002
Overview
Construction management involves three main areas, construction project management, construction business management and construction production management. This course focusses on the latter and covers managerial issues associated with on-site construction operations for the construction manager.
The aim of this course is to provide a broad understanding of the procedures and processes, tools and techniques, strategies and tactics used for managing on-site construction production operations from contract formation to completion in a team environment focussing on issues related to transformation-flow-value issues, short-term pull/push schedules, subcontractor management, productivity enhancement, and knowledge areas connected with lean construction. Additionally, it covers on-site quality and safety management issues while also introducing building information modelling to understand its relevance to production management.
Course learning outcomes
The course objectives define the student learning outcomes for a course. On completion of this course, student should be able to:
- Describe production management operations
- Explain procedures and processes adopted to manage time, cost, quality, safety and environmental issues at site level with respect to production operations
- Demonstrate the application of production management tools and techniques, procedures and processes
- Explain the relevance of building information modelling to production management
- Describe the relevance of teamwork and communication skills to production management
- Summarise and analyse project progress
- Demonstrate appropriate written and communication skills
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Construction logic | 5.00 |
| 2. | Site Mobilisation and Establishment | 10.00 |
| 3. | Short-term look-ahead pull/push schedules | 10.00 |
| 4. | Task explosion, transformation, and flow | 5.00 |
| 5. | Lean construction | 10.00 |
| 6. | Productivity improvement and value stream mapping | 10.00 |
| 7. | Managing quality and environmental issues | 10.00 |
| 8. | Managing safety | 10.00 |
| 9. | Managing subcontractors and suppliers | 10.00 |
| 10. | Progress monitoring and reporting | 7.50 |
| 11. | Teamwork and communication | 5.00 |
| 12. | Building information modelling and production management | 7.50 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Report 1 | No | 30 | 1,2,3,7 |
| Report 2 | No | 30 | 1,2,3,6,7 |
| Report 3 | No | 40 | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |