The construction business and processes; project phases; managerial duties, responsibilities, and authorities; project planning: WBS, networking techniques, scheduling, resources profiling and leveling, cash flow projections and budgeting.
1. Introduction to project management.
2. Project phases and the role of project manager in each phase.
3. Project organization, reporting, and communication.
4. Project planning: WBS, networking, Gantt charts, and 2 scheduling.
5. Plan optimization: time-cost tradeoff and resource leveling.
6. Cash-flow analysis, budgeting, and financial requirements.
7. Overlapping (precedence) networks.
8. Time and cost control: Earned value analysis.
9. Construction equipment: productivity, cost, and production cost.
10. Process analysis and fleet size optimization.
