Course Details

Prices in Civil Engineering

Academic Year 2026/27

BVA031-A course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPA-SIS Winter Semester 3rd year

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

English

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Eva Vítková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Aims

Knowledge
  • The student is familiar with the costs and prices of construction production in a construction company, understands the principles of pricing construction work and the construction budget.
Skills
  • The student can standardize and calculate the prices of construction work.
  • The student can compile a construction project budget from calculated items and available price lists.
Competence
  • The student is able to compile a list of works, supplies and services for selecting a contractor,
  • The student is able to evaluate the itemized bill of quantities for a construction project.

Basic Literature

Pricing system ÚRS, www.cs-urs.cz (en)
Pricing system RTS, www.cenovasoustava.cz (en)
Decree No. 169/2016 Coll. on the Determination of the Scope of Documentation for Public Procurement of Construction Works and the Bill of Quantities of Construction Works, Supplies, and Services (en)
Act No. 134/2016 Coll.Public Procurement Act (en)
HANÁK, Tomáš; MATHOI, Thomas; ALB, Marianne; SCHACHNER, Katharina; VÝSKALA, Miloslav et al. Life cycle cost modelling using 6D BIM in construction: A comparative study. Online. MATEC web of conferences. 2024, vol. 396, s. 6001. ISSN 2261-236X. (en)
MIKULÍK, M.; HANÁK, T.; AIGEL, P. Errors in the list of works, supplies and services in public works tenders. Archives of Civil Engineering, 2022, roč. 68, č. 1, s. 611-622. ISSN: 1230-2945. (en)
PLEBANKIEWICZ, E.; LEŚNIAK, A.; VÍTKOVÁ, E.; HROMÁDKA, V. Models for estimating costs of public buildings maintaining – review and assessment. Archives of Civil Engineering, 2022, roč. 68, č. 1, s. 335-351. ISSN: 1230-2945. (en)

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/299110

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  1. Introduction, basic terms, price, value, legislation.
  2. Labor standardization. Labor measurement.
  3. Material consumption standardization. Machine standardization.
  4. Labor remuneration. Wage theory.
  5. Cost calculation, types and classification of costs.
  6. Classification in construction, price systems.
  7. Price of a construction object - budget.
  8. Price of a construction object - budget.
  9. Public procurement - list of works, supplies and services.
  10. Construction price in the context of BIM.
  11. Cost estimates, unit price indicators,
  12. Summary budget of a construction project
  13. Price of design and engineering services.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  1. Introduction, teaching program, instructions and guidelines.
  2. Standardization of work. Survey methods. Calculation methods.
  3. Standardization of material consumption. Standardization of machines.
  4. Calculation of construction costs.
  5. Itemized bill of quantities for a construction project – MCV
  6. Itemized bill of quantities for a construction project – MCV
  7. Itemized bill of quantities for a construction project – MCV
  8. Itemized bill of quantities for a construction project – SCV
  9. Itemized bill of quantities for a construction project – SCV
  10. Itemized bill of quantities for a construction project – SCV
  11. Price calculations, price indicators, summary budget.
  12. Calculation of design and engineering services
  13. Written credit test.

Self-study

30 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Individual preparation for an ending of the course

48 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective