Curricula

Objective

Purpose of the course:
The knowledge and skills you will need in this course will enable you to determine the quantities of building materials required for a project and, after pricing, to prepare a quotation and work schedule for the project.

Course competences:
Knowledge and understanding: knowledge and understanding of the appropriate materials, equipment, tools, technologies and processes and their limitations in your area of specialisation.
Communication and teamwork: the ability to work effectively with engineers and other professional groups.
Interdisciplinary skills: the ability to manage complex technical or professional tasks or projects, taking responsibility for decision-making.
Practical application of technology: The ability to identify, formulate and solve complex problems, with the ability to select and have the practical skills to apply well-established analytical, computational and experimental techniques and methods appropriate to the situation.

Course objective:
You will be able to make quantity calculations from existing plans, transfer quantities to a quotation calculation program and price them according to work types and materials using the House nomenclature for lithography. After quantity surveying and pricing, you will be able to submit a tender. Identify the different types of schedules for a construction project and be able to select the most appropriate one for the site to be used, make the corresponding schedule using the scheduling software and draw up different types of contracts. You will be able to use data models for quantity surveying.
These are also the basic elements of the course.

Content

Calculating quantities for a construction project, transferring quantities to the tender calculation software, pricing work types and materials, and submitting a tender.
Littering of work phases according to Talo nomenclatures.
Different types of schedules for a construction project.

Qualifications

Competences of the Construction Economics course.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Intermediate (1): The student knows and recognises the topics described in the course objectives and is able to perform the tasks according to the course objectives: calculating the quantity of a construction project, transferring quantities to the tender calculation software, pricing of types of work and materials and submitting a tender. Littering of work steps according to the House nomenclature. Different types of schedules for a construction project. Students can demonstrate their competence by completing tasks in accordance with the objectives.

Satisfactory (2): The student knows, identifies and understands the issues described in the learning objectives of the course. The student can demonstrate competence by systematically describing the topics covered in the course.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3): the student has achieved the learning objectives of the course and is able to demonstrate his/her knowledge in a clear and understandable way. The student is able to articulate the learning in a clear and concise manner and to apply it to practical tasks.

Excellent (4). The student is able to describe the effects of different solutions and to make informed choices between alternatives.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5): the student has achieved the learning objectives of the course with excellent results. In addition, the student is able to examine the topics of the course theoretically and apply them critically in practice. Competence is demonstrated in a coherent and multidimensional manner.