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Project Management per le Costruzioni
Project Management for Construction
Alessandro Carbonari

Seat Ingegneria
A.A. 2015/2016
Credits 9
Hours 72
Period I
Language ENG

Prerequisites
None

Learning outcomes
The course explores the methods for the management of complex building interventions, with explicit references to the stages and procedures typically required to manage the entire course of the intervention, but with special focus on the management of planning and execution. Students will learn the methodologies and techniques for the preparation of a Project Management Plan regarding a building contract, as well as the tecniques for the control of the execution phase and the deviations from the schedule.

Program
This course focuses mainly on the issues concerning the methodological and operational management of large construction projects. It is organized according to one general methodological section and other two more analytic ones, regarding planning and management of the construction execution phase. Within the first part of the course, the management methodologies concerning the whole construction process (from planning to building) will be investigated, whose issues are discussed according to the PMI international classification: Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Resource Management, Risk Management, Integration Management, Quality Management, Procurement Management and Communications Management. In addition, fundamentals for risk assessment issues will be discussed. During the second part of the course, methodologies and techniques for construction work planning will be concerned: work phase scheduling; resource scheduling; CPM/PERT and PDM scheduling for work duraton planning; advanced methods for time scheduling; cost assessments; financial and economic risk analyses; probabilistic techniques for risk assessment and mitigation; decision theory and automation for Project Management. Within the third part of the course, the techniques for the construction phase management will be investigated: cost monitoring and sheduling; activity and project indexes; cost/schedule control systems criteria; non linear resource scheduling. Furthermore, the course provides students with the basic skills needed for software aided management of complex construction projects (Microsoft Office Project), whose application will be shown through the development of demonstrators during the course's classes.

Development of the examination
LEARNING EVALUATION METHODS
: One practical test and one verbal examination. The practical test is aimed at checking students' ability to deal with practical aspects of the construction process management, and the verbal examination will be focused on the several topics of the course.

LEARNING EVALUATION CRITERIA
The practical test will allow students to show their capabilities in operational planning and scheduling of a construction site. The verbal examination will be used to assess student's skills about contextualization of the issues relative to scheduling of large and complex construciton sites and about problem solving in specific management scenarios.

LEARNING MEASUREMENT CRITERIA
The correctness of the methodology and the final schedule proposed by students will be assessed to evaluate the success of the practical test. The verbal text will be ranked according to the ratio between correct answers and the overall number of question

FINAL MARK ALLOCATION CRITERIA
Admission to the verbal examination is conditioned upon the succesful completion of the practical test. The final mark is weighed according to how knowledgeable each student is on each of the topics discussed.

Recommended reading
- Project Management Institute - PMI Standards Committe, “Guida al Project Management Body of Knowledge”, Terza edizione, 2004. - Naticchia B., “Tecniche per il management del costruire”, Il lavoro editoriale/Architettura editions, 1996. - University le

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• Ingegneria Edile (Corso di Laurea Magistrale (DM 270/04))