Course Details

Economy of Construction Industry

Academic Year 2025/26

NVA030 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIM Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. et Ing. Martin Tuscher, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 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/295864

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Construction company and production in the construction company
  • 2. Normalization of work and performance; Normalization and remuneration in the construction industry
  • 3. Managing Material and Supplies Costs.
  • 4. Managing labor costs.
  • 5. Cost control of machines and production equipment.
  • 6. Valuation of production, prices in the construction industry.
  • 7. Investments.
  • 8. Corporate Finance.
  • 9. Taxes, accounting and operational records.
  • 10. Marketing.
  • 11. Business organization systems, types of business association.
  • 12. Benchmarking, management of production costs with respect to the competitiveness of the company.
  • 13. Planning circuits and plan control systems, documentation of changes.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Assignment of semestral work.
  • 2. Marketing Analysis.
  • 3. Costs of materials.
  • 4. Costs of wages.
  • 5. Transport costs.
  • 6. Calculation of the price of construction work.
  • 7. Aggregate budget of buildings
  • 8. Investment evaluation.
  • 9. Price sensitivity analysis.
  • 10. Calculation of break-even point.
  • 11. The overall evaluation of the investment.
  • 12. Presentation of work.
  • 13. Handing in and final control.