Construction Planning and Scheduling. 3 credits

Catalog description

This course will help students establish basic and advanced construction management skills with a focus on planning and scheduling of construction projects. Different procedures for construction control and developing a practical methodology appropriate for civil, environmental, and infrastructure engineering applications will be explored. An introduction to industry terminology, basic and advanced scheduling procedures, building work breakdown structures, activity identification, sequencing and logical ties, different levels schedule development using the critical path method, understanding schedule restrictions, schedule calculations, schedule resource management, and maintaining schedule updates will be covered. An emphasis will be placed on using computer-based scheduling software. Offered by Civil, Environ & Infrastr Engr . Limited to three attempts.