Construction project management course essentials
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For students of Construction Project Management, the following information, divided into the module subjects you are likely to study as part of the course, is available on our site.
[edit] Project management
- Construction management: outline work plan.
- Design and build: outline work plan.
- Management contract: outline work plan.
- Project manager
- Project sponsor
- Public project: outline work plan.
- Self-build home: outline work plan.
- Step-by-step guide to using BIM on projects.
- Traditional contract: outline work plan.
- User panels
[edit] Design management
- Abortive work.
- Approved documents.
- Architect's instruction.
- Asset information model AIM.
- Asset information requirements AIR.
- BIM articles.
- Briefing documents for building design.
- Building design.
- Building design competitions
- Change control procedure for building design and construction.
- Collaborative practices for building design and construction.
- Common data environment.
- Concept architectural design checklist.
- Concept design report.
- Construction industry knowledge standard.
- Consultant team for design and construction.
- Consultation process.
- Contingency plan.
- Data drops for BIM.
- Demand matrix for BIM.
- Design and access statement.
- Design and build procurement route.
- Design coordination.
- Design Council.
- Design for deconstruction.
- Design intent.
- Design liability.
- Design management.
- Design management plan.
- Design manager.
- Design programme.
- Design quality for buildings.
- Design responsibility matrix.
- Design review.
- Design team meeting.
- Design web for building design.
- Detailed design report.
- Detailed planning application.
- Developed design.
- Document control.
- End of stage report.
- Environmental plan for building design and construction.
- Feasibility studies for construction projects.
- Fire safety design.
- Gateways.
- Inclusive design.
- Insurance for building design and construction.
- Lead consultant.
- Lead designer.
- Life cycle assessment.
- Masterplanning.
- Milestones.
- Mixed use development.
- Non-discriminatory building design.
- Office space planning.
- Options review report.
- Performance specification.
- Placemaking
- Pre-construction information.
- Preparation and brief project stage.
- Programme for building design and construction.
- Project benchmarking.
- Project brief.
- Project execution plan PEP.
- Project extranet.
- Project implementation plan for construction projects.
- Project quality plan PQP.
- Quality in construction projects.
- RIBA plan of work.
- Risk register for building design and construction.
- Scope creep.
- Specialist designers.
- Stakeholder management for building design and construction.
- Strategic brief.
- Team management.
- Technical design stage for building projects.
- Types of drawings.
- Value management.
- Variation.
[edit] Construction technology
- 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
- Bridge construction
- Building component
- Building element
- Building foundations
- Building regulations
- Building related illness
- Cantilever
- Cladding for buildings
- Computer aided design CAD
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM
- Concept architectural design
- Concept drawing
- Concept design
- Concept structural design of buildings
- Concrete vs. steel
- Cracking and building movement
- Damp
- Damp-proof course DPC
- Damp proof membrane DPM
- Detail drawing
- Detailed design
- Domestic roofs
- Elements of structure in buildings
- Elevations
- Feasibility studies
- Fire principles of prevention.
- Fire protection engineering
- Fire safety design
- Flooring
- Groundworks
- 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
- Sewer construction.
- Shop drawings
- Sick building syndrome
- Soil survey
- Solid wall insulation
- Spalling
- Stairs
- Structural engineer
- Structural systems for offices
- Structure definition
- Subsidence
- Substructure
- Superstructure
- Suspended ceiling
- Technical drawing
- The development of structural membranes
- The thermal behaviour of spaces enclosed by fabric membranes
- Thermal insulation for buildings
- Tunnelling
- 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
[edit] Principles of law
[edit] Economics
- Balance sheet
- Business case for construction projects
- Business models in construction
- Business rates
- Capital allowances for construction
- Capital gains tax
- Cash flow in construction
- Cash flow projection
- Construction VAT
- Contract sum analysis
- Defined cost
- Depreciation
- Fee proposal
- Final account
- Inflation
- Land value
- Landfill tax
- Market segmentation in the construction industry
- Marketing audits in the construction industry
- Net Present Value
- Pay as you earn in construction PAYE
- Private finance initiative
- Profits method of rating valuation
- Rate relief schemes for small business
- Rating valuation
- Record keeping
- Research and development tax relief
- Small and medium-sized enterprises SME
- Stamp duty land tax SDLT
- Tax relief
- Taxation in building design and construction
- VAT - Option to tax
- Working capital
- What is a mortgage?
[edit] Building services technology
[edit] Construction organisation and strategy
[edit] Construction and commercial management
- Approximate bill of quantities
- Approximate quantities cost plan
- Bid strategies
- Bill of quantities
- CDM planning period
- Common Arrangement of Work Sections(CAWS)
- Computers in the management of construction
- Constraints
- Construction manager
- Construction management: outline work plan.
- Construction progress meeting.
- Construction progress report
- Cost control in building design and construction.
- Cost plans.
- Delays on construction projects
- Design coordination
- Design management
- Elemental cost plan.
- Firm bill of quantities.
- Key performance indicators KPI
- Leadership styles
- Management contractor
- Measurement.
- Named sub-contractor
- Named supplier in construction contracts
- New Rules of Measurement.
- NRM2.
- NRM3.
- Outturn cost.
- Payment notice for construction contracts.
- Pre-contract meeting for construction contracts
- Preliminaries.
- Prime cost sums
- Programme for building design and construction
- Project manager's report for building design and construction
- Project team for building design and construction
- Provisional sums.
- Quality in construction projects
- Relationship management
- Schedule of work for construction
- Scope of work.
- Sectional completion in construction contracts
- Site manager for construction sites
- Standard Method of Measurement (SMM7).
- Sub-contractor
- Supply chain management in construction
- Taking off.
- Tender.
- Tender documentation.
- Tender pricing document.
[edit] Health and safety
[edit] Contracts
[edit] Management principles and practice
- Appointing an architect
- Appointing consultants for building design and construction
- Appointing consultants for small domestic projects
- Business justification for building development
- Collaborative practices for building design and construction
- Computers in the management of construction
- Construction manager
- Construction progress meeting
- Construction progress report
- Consultation process
- Delays on construction projects
- Design coordination
- Design management
- Extended aftercare for completed construction works
- Fair payment practices for construction
- Game theory
- Key performance indicators KPI
- Initial aftercare for completed construction works
- Leadership styles
- Lean construction
- Logistics management
- Management contractor
- Management structure for construction clients
- Masterplanning
- Migration strategy
- Non-disclosure agreement for building design and construction
- Organisational information requirements OIR
- Pre-contract meeting for construction contracts
- Programme for building design and construction
- Project manager's report for building design and construction
- Project quality plan PQP
- 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
- Team behavioural roles
- Team management for building design and construction projects
- Ten principles for procuring better outcomes
- Writing technique in the construction industry
[edit] Building materials
[edit] Maintenance, repair and refurbishment
[edit] Property development
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