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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312696 (v.1) Civil Engineering Project and Cost Management 360

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Civil Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 302784 (v.2) Structural Design 266 or any previous version
AND
308864 (v.1) Geotechnical Engineering 268 or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction and use of fundamental management, cost and value techniques to realise civil engineering and construction projects. Planning and management of the concept, feasibility, design and construction phases of civil engineering and construction projects. Developing Work Breakdown Structures; Critical Path Methods (CPM) Activity on arrow and Precedence Diagrams; Resource constraints; Line of Balance; and PERT as a means of dealing with risk and uncertainty. principles of financial establishment and control of construction projects and an economic assessment of engineering proposals throughout their entire usable lifecycle utilising NPV, FV, PV, AV, ROR and B/C analysis Construction finance estimating, planning, controlling, monitoring, and life cycle construction cost flow analysis.
Field of Education: 030900 Civil Engineering (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External