Construction Engineering Management course essentials

For students of Construction Engineering Management, the following information, divided into the module subjects you are likely to study as part of the course, is available on our site.

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[edit] Structural design

• Bridge construction
• Cantilever
• Concept architectural design
• Concept design
• Concept structural design of buildings
• Detailed design
• Diaphragm wall
• Domestic roofs
• Elements of structure in buildings
• Feasibility studies
• Groundworks
• Hyperbolic paraboloid
• Portal frame
• Structural engineer
• Structural modeling and analysis
• Structural systems for offices
• Structure definition
• Substructure
• Superstructure
• The development of structural membranes
• Types of dome
• Types of structural load

[edit] Building materials

• 3d printing in construction
• Aggregate
• Asbestos in construction
• Architectural ironmongery.
• Blockwork
• Brick
• Building component
• Building element
• Carbon fibre
• Cement
• Ceramics
• Cladding for buildings
• Cool brick
• Concrete
• Cross-laminated timber
• Curved glass
• Defects in stonework
• Deleterious materials in construction
• ETFE
• Glass for buildings
• Glazing
• Glulam
• Grouting in civil engineering
• Hempcrete
• Laminated veneer lumber LVL
• Low-e glass
• Masonry
• Mastic sealant
• Materials on site
• Mortar
• Non-combustible material
• Pebbledash
• Phase change materials
• Plastic cladding
• Plywood
• Prestressed concrete
• Rebar
• Recyclable construction materials
• Reinforced concrete
• Rendering
• Stainless steel in construction
• Steel
• Steel-concrete composite structures
• Structural steelwork
• Stucco
• Sustainable aggregates
• Sustainable materials
• Thermoplastic materials in buildings
• Timber
• Timber preservation
• Tradical Hemcrete

[edit] Principles of design and construction

• Air tightness in buildings
• As-built drawings and record drawings
• As-built or as-constructed building information model
• Assembly
• Assembly drawing
• Asset information model AIM
• BIM articles
• BIM glossary of terms
• Building component
• Building element
• Building foundations
• Building regulations
• Building related illness
• Cladding for buildings
• Computer aided design CAD
• Computer aided manufacturing CAM
• Concept architectural design
• Concept drawing
• Concept structural design of buildings
• Concrete vs. steel
• Concrete-steel composite structures
• Cracking and building movement
• Crosswall construction
• Damp
• Damp-proof course DPC
• Damp proof membrane DPM
• Detail drawing
• Domestic roofs
• Drainage
• Elevations
• Fire principles of prevention.
• Fire protection engineering
• Fire safety design
• Flooring
• Ground conditions
• Ground heave
• Health and safety for building design and construction
• Overheating in buildings
• Pad foundation
• Partition wall
• Pile foundations
• Portal frame
• Projections
• Raft foundation
• Raised floor
• Risk assessment for construction
• Samples and mock-ups
• Section drawing
• Settlement
• Shop drawings
• Sick building syndrome
• Soil survey
• Solid wall insulation
• Spalling
• Stairs
• Subsidence
• Substructure
• Superstructure
• Suspended ceiling
• Technical drawing
• The thermal behaviour of spaces enclosed by fabric membranes
• Thermal insulation for buildings
• Types of ceiling
• Types of drawings for building design
• Underpinning
• Vapour barrier
• Variable air volume VAV
• Ventilation
• Wall types
• Working drawing

[edit] Building environmental science

• Air quality
• Air permeability testing
• Airborne sound
• BFRC window rating scheme WER
• Building a better quality of life: A strategy for more sustainable construction
• Building performance metrics
• BREEAM
• Code for Sustainable Homes
• Cold stress
• Combined heat and power CHP
• Convection in buildings
• Do green buildings pay?
• Dry-bulb temperature
• Emissivity.
• Energy certificates for buildings
• Environmental impact assessment EIA
• Environmental plan for building design and construction
• Evolving opportunities for providing thermal comfort
• Flanking sound
• Floor insulation
• Green building
• Green infrastructure
• Heat stress
• Impact sound
• Heating
• K-value
• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED
• Life cycle assessment
• Limiting fabric parameters.
• Mean radiant temperature.
• Minimum energy efficiency standard regulations for domestic and non-domestic buildings
• Nearly zero energy buildings
• Operative temperature.
• Overheating.
• Performance gap
• Radiant heating
• Room data sheet
• Shading coefficient
• Solar heat gain coefficient
• Sound absorption coefficient
• Sound frequency
• Sound v noise
• Structure-borne sound
• Sustainability in building design and construction
• Sustainable water
• Target emission rate TER
• Temperature
• The business case for adapting buildings to climate change
• Thermal admittance
• Thermal behaviour of architectural fabric structures
• Thermal bridge.
• Thermal comfort in buildings
• Thermal conduction in buildings
• Thermal indices
• Thermal mass
• Thermal pleasure in the built environment
• Thermographic survey
• U-values
• Wet-bulb temperature.
• Wet-bulb globe temperature.
• Zero carbon homes

[edit] Construction and commercial management

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[edit] Economics

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[edit] Principles of law

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[edit] Site surveying

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[edit] Building production

• Advanced construction technology.
• Advanced manufacturing.
• Archaeology in the built environment
• Architect
• Base construction
• Basement excavation
• BIM information manager
• Buildability in construction
• Building an extension
• Building control officer BCO
• CDM 2015
• CDM 2007 Construction phase plan
• CDM co-ordinator
• CDM planning period.
• Civil engineer
• Client for building design and construction
• Construction contractor
• Construction manager
• Construction organisations and strategy
• Construction phase plan.
• Construction plant
• Consultant team for design and construction
• Cost consultant
• Design and build.
• Design coordination
• Design management
• Developer
• Driven piles
• Electrical engineer
• Employer's agent for design and build
• Engineer for construction
• Environmental consultant for building design and construction
• External works
• Falsework
• Footings in foundations
• Formwork
• Health and safety consultant
• Hoarding for construction sites
• Integrated project team
• Integrated supply team
• Lighting of construction sites.
• Mechanical engineer
• Modular vs traditional construction
• Pile foundations
• Pre-construction information
• Prefabrication
• Project engineer for construction
• Project manager
• Quality control for construction works
• Quality in construction projects
• Quantity surveyor
• Retaining walls
• Schedule of work for construction
• Site appraisals.
• Site information.
• Site layout plan for construction.
• Sub-contractor
• Subcontractor vs supplier
• Suppliers for design and construction
• Supply chains in construction
• Surveyor
• Site foreman
• Site manager for construction sites
• Site plan
• Site Waste Management Plan
• Structures at the end of their design life
• Temporary works for construction
• Topping out
• Types of crane

[edit] Methods of measurement

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[edit] Procurement and contract administration

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[edit] Management principles and practice

• Computers in the management of construction
• Construction manager
• Construction progress meeting
• Construction progress report
• Delays on construction projects
• Design coordination
• Design management
• Key performance indicators KPI
• Leadership styles
• Management contractor
• Pre-contract meeting for construction contracts
• Programme for building design and construction
• Project manager's report for building design and construction
• Project team for building design and construction
• Quality in construction projects
• Sectional completion in construction contracts
• Site manager for construction sites
• Supply chain management in construction

[edit] Health and safety

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[edit] Plant and equipment

• 3d printing in construction
• Absorption heat pump
• Bituminous mixing and laying plant
• CCTV
• Cherry picker
• Compressed air plant
• Concreting plant
• Construction drones
• Construction tools
• Crane supports
• Earth-moving plant
• Equipment in buildings
• Excavating plant
• Forklift truck
• Hoist
• Power float
• Pumps and dewatering equipment
• Scaffolding
• Types of crane
• Rubble chute

[edit] Civil engineering technology

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[edit] Geotechnical engineering

• Biodiversity in the urban environment.
• Biodiversity offsetting.
• Biophilia.
• Condition survey.
• Contaminated land.
• Cracking and building movement.
• Desk study.
• Ecological impact assessment.
• Ecological survey.
• Ecologist.
• Environmental impact assessment EIA.
• Environmental plan.
• Ground anchor.
• Ground conditions.
• Ground heave.
• Ground investigation.
• Groundworks.
• Grouting in civil engineering.
• Insitu testing of soils.
• Japanese knotweed identification and eradication
• Latent defects.
• Retaining walls.
• Settlement
• Sinkholes.
• Site investigation.
• Site survey.
• Spalling.
• Soil survey.
• Strategic ecology framework SEF
• Subsidence
• Sustainable urban drainage systems.
• Tree preservation order.
• Tree rights.
• Types of soil.
• Underpinning.
• Urban heat island effect.
• Vibro-compaction
• Vibro-replacement.

[edit] Contractor’s estimating and planning

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[edit] Building services technology

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[edit] Construction organisation and management

• Appointing consultants for small domestic projects
• BS11000 Collaborative business relationships
• Business administration
• Business case for construction projects
• Business model.
• Business process outsourcing (BPO).
• Company acquisitions in construction
• Construction Industry Council
• Construction industry institutes and associations
• Construction organisation design
• Construction organisations and strategy
• Corporate social responsibility in construction
• Diversity in the construction industry
• Equity and loan capital
• Funding options
• Funding prospectus
• Health and Safety Executive HSE
• Heritage Lottery Fund
• Joint venture
• Limited company
• Limited liability partnership
• Overage
• Partnering
• Personal service company
• PPC 2000
• Private Finance Initiative
• Procurement
• Social Value Act
• Special purpose vehicles
• Types of construction organisations

[edit] Maintenance, repair and refurbishment

• Building log book.
• Building owner's manual.
• Building performance evaluation BPE.
• Building performance metrics.
• Building services maintenance contractors’ role in reducing carbon emissions.
• Building user's guide.
• CIBSE Case Study Angel Building Refurbishment
• CIBSE Case Study Thamesmead Estate Refurbishment
• Defects liability period
• Dilapidations
• Facilities management.
• Handover to client.
• In-house or outsource maintenance.
• Initial aftercare.
• Lessons learned report.
• Maintenance
• Performance in use.
• Post occupancy evaluation of completed construction works.
• Post project review
• Pre-demolition and pre-refurbishment audits
• Soft landings.
• Renovation v refurbishment v retrofit
• Retrofit
• Retrofit coordinator

[edit] Contracts

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[edit] Management finance

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[edit] Value engineering and management

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