Course Details

Project Management of Building Constructions 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BVA011 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / E Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Hromádka, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

6 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289886

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to project management – historic evolution, current conception, suitable use, subject and content, fundamental terms.
  • 2. Project connected with construction, construction as subject of construction project, participants of construction process, construction code.
  • 3. Pre-investment phase of project, initiation, goals setting, documentation, project management, feasibility study.
  • 4. Evaluation of project proposal, planning, structuring of construction project, structuring of construction object.
  • 5. Work organisation of project, construction project participants, organisation structure, ways of construction, personnel provision, project manager.
  • 6. System of construction project planning, types, actualisations and levels of project plans, techniques of project planning, terminal planning.
  • 7. Network analysis, CPM, PERT method, Gantt chart, planning of sources, planning of sources outputs, sources histogram, cost planning, financial planning.
  • 8. Financing of project, proposal prices of project works.
  • 9. Relations between participants in investment project, work contract, command contract, model contract according to FIDIC.
  • 10. Risks and changes management, risks engineering, risks in construction, project risks management.
  • 11. Construction management models, software Microsoft Project.
  • 12. Project controlling, analysis of achieved performance values and progress of project costs, system of progress reporting and cost controlling.
  • 13. Information for construction and civil engineering, termination of lectures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Program of teaching, instruction and guidance. The interpretation and practical examples – Modelling of course of the project, methods and examples of the use of network analysis.
  • 2. Examples of calculation of network graph, reserves and their use.
  • 3. The course of a construction project. Processing flowchart of construction project, correction network graph.
  • 4. 1st task – project definition by method of the logical framework, processing a problem analysis.
  • 5. Continuing work on the 1st task, processing a target analysis and own logical framework.
  • 6. Public presentation of the project definition by method of the logical framework by each group.
  • 7. 2nd task – processing schedule for a specific site in the form of a network diagram, organizational chart, stakeholder responsibility matrix, resource analysis
  • 8. Continuing work on the 2nd task.
  • 9. 3rd task – processing the organogram and functional diagram for particular building.
  • 10. Correction 3rd task.
  • 11. 4th task – Processing and analysing well arranged a schedule of particular building for gross phases of planning and realization, updating and modification of this schedule. The part of this task is processing a costs plan, deployment plan of factual resources and financial plan
  • 12. Continuing work on the 4th task – correction, credit test.
  • 13. Continuing work on the 4th task – correction. Submission of all processed documents in a folder. Credit.