Construction project management course essentials
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For more information, see How to become a project manager.
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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