Description:
| Aims: This unit aims to:
* Introduce the student to current best practice thinking in project management by considering the individual phases of a construction project lifecycle.
* Encourage the student to critic and question the effectiveness of current practice particularly on complex construction projects.
* Provide an opportunity to reflect and apply leading-edge research using a set of new systems methodologies for dealing with complex construction projects.
Learning Outcomes: After taking this unit students should be able to:
* Be able to apply PM theory & techniques and reflect on their effectiveness,
* Articulate why PM theory & practice needs a new direction,
* Describe what this new thinking might look like in the international construction context in which they operate in and how it might be applied.
Skills: Intellectual skills
To understand and apply research methodology techniques - taught and assessed
Professional/Practical skills
To provide students with the ability to use project planning software - facilitated and assessed
To provide students with the ability to apply project management techniques and estimating - taught, facilitated and assessed
Transferable/key skills
To communicate ideas verbally and in writing - facilitated and assessed
To provide students with the ability to apply time management skills - facilitated.
Content: Through the use of a case study, this lifecycle framework will be embellished to give an understanding of the key support processes typically encountered in construction projects. The lifecycle will be divided into: concept and definition, design and development, construction, commissioning and handover, operation and maintenance. A toolkit of PM techniques will be reviewed. These include: maintaining the business case, planning (programming), initiating (procurement), managing risk, controlling (earn value reporting), delivering (quality and people management) and closing (reviewing objectives and feedback mechanisms).
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