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Feedback for Principles of construction management

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course.

We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.

In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.
 
We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

https://goo.gl/forms/P1MXdUNDm8Iq8CBV2

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-8 solutions released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-8 solutions for the course "Principles of construction management" has been released in the portal. 

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,
Course TA.

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Principles of construction management - Erratum in Running account bills slides released

Dear Participants,

An erratum regarding mobilization advance calculations in lecture-10 (RA bills) is released in Unit-3 (Construction Economics). Please go through this document that clears all the doubts raised by you in the forum.
As a simple note, I would like to mention the following: 
If RA bill calculations are done as per gross basis, recoveries should also be taken in gross basis. Both gross work-done approach and net work-done approach result in same net payable values. We would strongly recommend you to use net work-done approach (that was given in Assignment-3 solutions) to avoid any sort of confusion in this regard.

With best wishes,
Course TA.

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Principles of construction management - Instructions for end examination

Dear Participants,

Please note the following information regarding the final exam:

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING THE FINAL EXAMINATION

•  The online final examination will be held in two shifts on 22nd October, 2017, and we are
    sure that you have received your Hall tickets for that. 

•  Please make sure that you carry a hard copy of hall ticket along with a valid original ID card
   to the examination center.  

•  As far as the examination is concerned, please note the following: 

• All modules covered in the course are important for the exam.
  
• A thorough revision of all assignments and lectures is recommended.
• All questions in the final exam are going to be of MULTIPLE CHOICE type, and there will be ONLY one correct answer for each question.
• Questions in the examination will be of two types – those requiring some calculation and a numerical answer (to be worked out), and, other questions, which do not require any explicit calculations.
• Maximum marks in the paper are 100.
• There is NO negative marking.
• Other specific instructions will be available as part of the question paper. 
• Please go through the general and other guidelines that have been issued by NPTEL from time to time.
• All relevant information will be provided in the question paper. 
• You are not expected to carry any tables or charts with you.
• You are NOT allowed to use excel sheets or any other aid for calculations during the exam. USE OF ONLY NON-PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATORS IS ALLOWED.  

HAPPY DIWALI

Thanks and regards,
Course TA.

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Principles of construction management - Some general terms in buildings

Dear Participants,

Please note that under a special unit named "SPECIAL INFORMATION", a PDF containing some generally used terms in buildings, is made available to you for your knowledge and information purpose. You are requested to go through the same.   

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,
Course TA.

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Hall ticket for October 22nd NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download

Dear Candidate:

If you have registered and paid successfully for the October 22nd NPTEL Online certification exam, your Admit Card/ Hall ticket is now available inside your application form:

1. Please visit the link: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

Login with your registered Google-enabled account email id (used to access the course on the portal and used for registering for the exam) and its password to access the link and click on October exam to download the hall ticket(s) for the October 22nd exams, from the link.

2. You can also download it from the alternate link given below:

https://cdn3.digialm.com:443//EForms/configuredHtml/885/52549/login.html

Please try to access both the links to download your hall ticket, if you are not able to find your hall ticket in both the links., kindly write to us at nptel@iitm.ac.in.
 
Note: that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on October 22, 2017.

Please download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a original ID card, carry it with you to the venue (The exam centre address is there in the hall ticket). Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall ticket carefully and follow them.

Note1:- If you are writing 2 exams – Forenoon and Afternoon sessions, please ensure that you have downloaded 2 hall tickets which will be hosted inside the login.
 
In case of the any problems with the hall ticket kindly write to us nptel@iitm.ac.in

IMPORTANT:

1. Change of shift, course, exam center, exam city will not be encouraged.
2. You will not be allowed to write the exam if you are showing up in the exam center which is not allocated to you by mistake or by intention.
3. Gate Entry beyond 09:30 AM in FN and 2:30 PM in AN will not be entertained.
4. Candidates will not be allowed to write the exam without Hall ticket and proper id proof.

NPTEL Team wishes you the very best for the certification exam.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL team

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-7 solutions released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-7 solutions for the course "Principles of construction management" has been released in the portal. 

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,
Course TA.

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Principles of construction management - Week-8 content released

Dear Participants,

Week-8 video lectures for the course "Principles of construction management" are available in the portal. 

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,
Course TA.

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-6 solutions released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-6 solutions for the course "Principles of construction management" has been released in the portal. 

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,
Course TA.

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-8 Released

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-5 solutions released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-5 solutions for the course "Principles of construction management" has been released in the portal. The delay in posting this solution is deeply regretted.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

Course TA.

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Principles of construction management - Revisit Assignment 6

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Regarding Assignment 6

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Principles of construction management - Corrections in Assignment-7

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-7 Released

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Principles of construction management - Week 7 Videos Available

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-5 clarification and deadline extension

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Principles of construction management - Week 6 videos available

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-6 is released

Dear participants,

The Assignment-6 for the course titled "Principles of construction management" have been released in the portal.
The deadline for submitting this assignment is 04/10/2017, 11:59 PM.

HAPPY LEARNING.
Thanks and regards,
Course TA

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-4 Solution Released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-4 solution for the course "Principles of construction management" has been released in the portal.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

Course TA.

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Principles of construction management - Extension of deadline for submitting Assignment-4

Dear all,

Due to some requests in the Forum, the deadline for submitting Assignment-4 is extended to 11:59 hr of 23-September-2017 (i.e.Saturday noon). You can submit accordingly. Please note that we are not going to extend deadlines of assignments in future.

Regards,
Course TA.

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Last date for Exam Registartion Extended

Dear Candidates

Last date for exam registration have been extended till Sep 26th, 5pm (Tuesday).

Payment of the exam fee can be done till: Sep 27, 10am (Wednesday)

The certification exam will be conducted at designated centers in the city chosen by you. You have to register for the exam by filling up the form, paying the exam fee and appear in person and to get the certificate.

Hard and soft copy of Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for the exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score > 40%

Register for the exam today at: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

For other details about exam registration, please check our previous announcement.

-NPTEL Team

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Principles of construction management - Reevaluation of Assignment-1

Dear Participants,

Assignment-1 has been reevaluated. You may check your revised scores in the progress tab of your account.

Best wishes,
NPTEL team.   

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-5 released

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Principles of construction management - week 5 videos available

Dear Participants,

The week-5 video lectures for the course "Principles of construction management" have been released in the portal.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team 

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Principles of construction management - Assignment 3 solutions released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-3 solution for the course "Principles of construction management" has been released in the portal.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL team.

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Principles of Construction Management - Feedback for week 4

Dear Learner,

We are glad that you have Joined the NPTEL online certification course.

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare
some of your valuable time to input your observations for Week 4.
This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you
better.

The links to give your feedback are:

Week 4: https://goo.gl/forms/Jnrul3Xhcvv5FmxF2

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Principles of construction management - Extension of deadline for submitting Assignment-3

Dear all,

The deadline for submitting Assignment-3 is extended to 11:59 hr of 15-September-2017 (i.e. tomorrow noon). You can submit accordingly. Please note that further extension is NOT going to be made.

Regards,
Course TA.

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Exam Type and Certificate Format

Dear student

The certification exam will be conducted at designated centres in the city chosen by you. You have to register for the exam by filling up the form, paying the exam fee and appear in person to get the certificate.

Register for the exam today at: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

Exam registration form closes on 20th September 2017 5:00 PM (Wednesday).

For other details about exam registration, please check our previous announcement.

Type of exam: Computer based exam (Online)

Online:

You will have to appear at the allotted exam centre and produce your Hall ticket and Government Photo Identification Card(Example: Driving License,Passport, PAN card, Voter ID, Aadhaar-ID with your Name, date of birth, photograph and signature) for verification and take the exam in person. You can find the allotted exam center details in the hall ticket.

The questions will be on the computer and the answers will have to be entered on the computer; type of questions may include multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, essay type answers, etc

The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively around 11-15th October 2017. We will notify the same through email.

FINAL CERTIFICATE:

The final score = 25% assignment score + 75% final certification exam score.

The final score will determine if you will/will not receive a certificate.

1. Final score < 40%: NO certificate
2. Final score between 40% -59%: Certificate of type "Successfully completing the course"
3. Final score between 60% -89%: Certificate with tag "Elite" printed at the top
4. Final score of 90% and above: Certificate with "Elite" tag and the gold medal printed on it.

Please click the link here for certificate format: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/cert_preview/certificate_latest.pdf

-NPTEL Team

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Principles of construction management - week 4 videos available

Dear Participants,

The Week-4 video lectures for the course "Principles of Construction Management" have been released in the portal.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team 

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-4 released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-4 for the course "Principles of Construction Management" has been released in the portal. The last date to submit the assignment is 20/09/2017, 11:59 pm.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,
Course TA.

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-2 solution released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-2 Solution for the course "Principles of construction management" has been released in the portal.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

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Principles of construction management- Regarding uploading PDF versions of lectures

Dear participants,

We have received several requests for uploading PDF versions and/or transcriptions of the lectures. We are now checking with the organizers if there is a requirement to actually do so. Action will be taken in accordance with the policy of the MOOCS programme.

Sincerely,
Course TA.

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Principles of Construction Management - Feedback for week 1, 2 and 3

Dear Learner,

We are glad that you have Joined the NPTEL online certification course.

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare
some of your valuable time to input your observations for Week 1, 2 and 3.
This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you
better.

The links to give your feedback are:

Week 1: https://goo.gl/forms/N9FrA33184u7fRr62

Week 2: https://goo.gl/forms/A41sX7TdtzrNSzG03

Week 3: https://goo.gl/forms/4RTSSmFUdCPay7ok2

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Principles of construction management- Assignment-3 released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-3 for the course "Principles of construction management" has been released in the portal. The last date to submit the assignment is 13/09/2017, 11:59 PM.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,
Course TA.

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Principles of construction management - Week 3 videos available

Dear Participants,

The week-3 video lectures for the course "Principles of construction management" have been released in the portal.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL team. 

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A Reminder on Certification Exam - Register Today

GET CERTIFIED

Registration is open from 29th AUGUST 2017 (Tuesday) until 20th September 2017 5:00 PM (Wednesday). Hurry up to get certified from IIT's and IISc

Register Now

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Principles of construction management - Small clarification on Assignment-2

Dear Participants,

DO NOT enter any commas, spacing and units in the box given for answer. You have to write the answer in numerals only (with decimals if required).

Kindly make a note of it and please submit your answers accordingly.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

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Principles of Construction Management - Assignment-1 solutions released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-1 Solution for the course "Principles of Construction Management" has been released in the portal.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

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REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!

Dear Student:

Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the October 2017 certification exam. The registration for the certification exam is only open to students who have enrolled in the course.

Registration is open from 29th AUGUST 2017 (Tuesday) until 20th September 2017 5:00 PM (Wednesday). 
The certification exam registration URL is: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

(If you want to register for the exam for this course, login here using the same email id used to enroll to the course)

Dates of exam: 22nd October 2017(Sunday) [Forenoon-Shift 1/Afternoon Shift 2] (You can choose any one shift according to your convenience for writing the exam). You can register for a maximum of 2 course exams (same day of exam – 2 sessions. Same center will be allocated for both the sessions).

Exam Session time: Shift 1 - 9.00 AM -12.00 PM ; Shift 2 - 2.00 PM - 5.00 PM
Examination Cities: The exam is to be conducted in several cities across India whose list is available on the registration form. 
Tentative list of exam cities: http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnptel.ac.in%2FLocalChapter%2FAssets%2Fspoc_refdocs%2FOct_2017_Exam_Cities.pdf&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFksV6ScgWkPREriW7zk7jpDmjAbA

Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
(Students belonging to the SC/ST category can avail a 50% fee waiver - please select Yes for the SC/ST option and upload the correct Community certificate)
Mode of payment:  Online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking.

HALL TICKET:
The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively between 11 -15th October 2017. We will confirm the same through an announcement once it is published.

Final score on certificate: 25% of assignment score + 75% of certification exam score.
Award of certificate:  Hard and soft copy of Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for the exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score > 40%

The final score, assignment score and exam score will be printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website (http://nptel.ac.in/noc), where on logging in, your scores and e-certificate will be available for verification  (Appropriate announcements will be made). Please do regularly submit assignments to get a good final score.

IMPORTANT NOTES

1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:- Once the registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course, exam shift, city is possible. So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and make the payment for both courses at the same time. It is not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, only basic details will be editable.


2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR COLLEGE:- 

1. In the exam form, you will fill all the details and also upload photo, signature.
2. Ensure that you had selected your college name correctly from the drop-down list in the form.
3. Payment of exam fees - click on the tab - 'PAY VIA SPOC'.
The SPOC has to now confirm to NPTEL that he/she will pay fees on your behalf.
If the SPOC says NO, you will be intimated via email.
Then it becomes your responsibility to come back to the exam form and make the payment.
If you do not pay the exam fees within the prescribed time, you will not be able to write the exam.

After submitting the form, in case you wish to change the name, date of birth, address, photo and signature.  Please login to http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/edit_details.php and make the changes till September 20, 2017.

The following data initially submitted cannot be changed –email id, course selected, shift, exam city, SC/ST. For changes in this, email us at nptel@iitm.ac.in giving your Application number, email id and name. No changes will be entertained in these details after September 20 2017.

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Principles of construction management - Week 2 Videos Available

Dear Participants,

The Week-2 video lectures (Lecture No. 6 to 8) for the course "Principles of Construction Management" have been released in the portal.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-2 released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-2 for the course "Principles of construction management" has been released in the portal. The last date to submit the assignment is 06/09/2017, 11:59 pm.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

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Clarification on Assignment-1

Dear participants,

In view of few questions being posted in the forum regarding assignment-1, we felt that it would be better to clear certain ambiguities through this announcement. You are requested to note the following with regard to Assignment-1,

Comprehensive information-1:

You are expected to rank the contractors based on the composite score, which is to be evaluated for all contractors who qualify technical criteria, irrespective of their financial bids, i.e. ranking should be based on composite score (for technically qualified bidders) irrespective of the fact that their financial bids are deviating or not!
While ranking the contractors, consider the composite score up to two decimal points.

Please perform your calculations accordingly, and submit your answers of assignment-1 once again, if needed.

We are very sorry for any sort of ambiguity or inconvenience in this regard.

Regards,
Course TA. 

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Principles of construction management - Assignment-1 Released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-1 for the course "Principles of construction management" has been released in the portal. The last date to submit the assignment is 30/08/2017, 11:59 pm.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Lectures of week-1 are released

Dear participants,

Please note that the lectures on the first module (i.e. General overview and project organization) are released today (21/08/2017). They are available in the portal. 

I wish a wonderful experience of learning to you.

Regards,
Course TA.

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Welcome address by the TA

Hello everyone,

My name is Behera Prasanna Kumar, the Teaching Assistant to Prof.Sudhir Misra sir at IIT Kanpur for this MOOCS course on "Principles of Construction Management".

At the outset, I take the privilege of welcoming you to the course. I will be in contact with you through this discussion forum only. Let us make our effort to learn the course topics by actively discussing relevant technical aspects in this forum. Please feel fee to post your technical doubts relating to this course (in this forum ) and we will try to clarify them as soon as they are posted.

With regard to maintaining contact with you during this course, please note the following:

The Forum embedded on the course portal is the only official communication channel monitored by the Faculty coordinator and team and on which we will respond. NPTEL is NOT responsible for any Whatsapp group or any other group created in any other social media. Request the learners to refrain from sharing phone numbers and other details which may be misused as this is a public group and this information is available to all members in this group - NPTEL will not be responsible for misuse of any such information

You are requested to note that neither NPTEL, the professor nor the TA of the course is responsible for any kind of group created in any other social media like Whatsapp, facebook, LinkedIn etc.

Hence, you are requested NOT to share your personal information (Telephone numbers) on this forum. Once again I would like to inform you that we will be in touch with you only through this forum.

I wish happy learning to you in this course. Please try to keep the forum active.

See you soon.

Best regards,
Prasanna Kumar.

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Welcome to Principles of construction management

Dear student,

Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!

Thank you for signing up for our online course "Principles of construction management". We wish you an enjoyable and informative learning experience.

The course will begin on August 21, 2017. When content is released on the portal, you will get an email alerting you. Please watch the lectures, follow the course regularly and submit all assessments and assignments before the due date. Your regular participation is vital for learning.

We will open registration for the exam soon after the course starts. A form has to be filled and the certification exam has a fee, which needs to be paid at the time of registration. Everyone who has signed-up for the course, including those who do not register for the exam, will continue to have access to the course contents.

There are two sections on the portal apart from the course content and assignment sections:

• The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.    
  
• The discussion forum which is for everyone to ask questions and interact - If you have any questions regarding the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments or any question related to the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc, kindly write about this in the forum and the course instructor/TA will respond to it. Please use this well and participate to benefit from the course.

Details regarding the course:

Name of the course: Principles of construction management
Course duration: 08 weeks
Start date of course: 21 August 2017
End date of course: 13 October 2017
Date of exam: 22 October 2017
Course url:  https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ce18
Time of exam: Shift 1: 9 am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2 pm-5 pm
Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course.
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.

Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly

Once again, thank you for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

 - NPTEL team.