Major Project in Construction Project Management

Course description

This course is designed as a capstone project to enable students to apply and synthesize the material learned in other courses. Working in a team, students will select a project, submit a project proposal, and prepare a detailed project report and present their finding in a professional jury setting to external and internal examiners. In this course students assume consultant’s and contractor’s roles. In consultant’s role students prepare detailed market, technical and financial analysis, site selection and site feasibility study, project design, preliminary cost estimate, value engineering and life cycle costing, bid document, bid invitation, and simulated bid award. In the contractor’s role students prepare detailed quantity takeoff, cost estimate, site layout, project schedule, resource plan, risk plan, quality plan, procurement plan, construction health and safety plan, communication plan, stakeholder plan. The project type will engage all the lessons learned in the course of study, including co-op, therefore, Enrollment in this course is limited to students who are in their final semester of the program.

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