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Project Planning and Control

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course will cover the basic concepts in Project Planning and Control with a focus on construction projects. The course is relevant to Civil Engineering senior level undergraduate as well as post-graduate students in the area of construction management. Practicing engineers who are part of the planning team on construction projects will also benefit from the concepts covered in the course. 

INTENDED AUDIENCE
 UG/PG/Industry Participants

PRE-REQUISITES
 Basic Mathematics with Probability and Statistics

INDUSTRIES THAT WILL VALUE THIS
 All leading construction companies

4036 students have enrolled already!!

COURSE INSTRUCTOR


Dr. Koshy Varghese is a Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM). Dr. Varghese earned his Doctoral Degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 and worked as a post-doctoral fellow for a year after which he joined IIT Madras. Dr. Varghese is a pioneer in construction management education and research in India and has taught courses in Construction Planning and Control to undergraduates / postgraduate as well as to industry.

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE COURSE

Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_ce06
Course duration : 08 weeks
Start date and end date of course: 18 July 2016 - 9 September 2016
Dates of exams : 18 September 2016 & 25 September 2016
Final Score evaluation pattern : Calculated on the weightage of 25% for the assignments and 75% for the final exam
Assignment Weightage : 25% of weightage on assignments will be calculated for each student, best 6 out of 8 weekly assignments
Time of exam : 2pm - 5pm
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly
Exam Fee: The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000(non-Programming)/1250(Programming) needs to be paid.

CERTIFICATE

E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras.
It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1. Introduction, Course Context, Construction Project Management
Week 2. Time Management, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Gantt Charts
Week 3. Duration Estimation, Network Representation & Analysis -1
Week 4. Network Representation & Analysis -2; Two-Span Bridge: Scheduling, Network Analysis and Application
Week 5. Time-Cost Trade-off (Crashing)
Week 6. Resource Scheduling
Week 7. Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM), Project Monitoring & Control
Week 8. Project Monitoring & Control (Earned Value Concepts), Uncertainty in Project Schedules (PERT), Course Summary


SUGGESTED READING

(1) Saleh Mubarak, "Construction Project Scheduling and Control". Wiley Publications., 2nd ed., 2010. 

(2) Michael T. Callahan, Daniel G. Quackenbush and James E. Rowings, "Construction Project Scheduling". McGraw-Hill, Inc., International Edition., 1992.

(3) K K Chitkara, "Construction Project Management - Planning, Scheduling and Controlling". Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd., 2nd ed., 2013.

(4) Kumar Neeraj Jha, "Construction Project Management- Theory and Practice". Pearson Education India., 2011.

(5) BIS, "IS 15883 -1 (2009): Construction Project Management- Guidelines, Part 1: General".

(6) BIS, "IS 15883 -2 (2013): Construction Project Management- Guidelines, Part 2: Time Management".