CEE 431 - Construction Contracting (Winter)

Construction contracting for contractors, architects, and owners; Organization and administration; industry structure; construction contracts, bonds, insurance; Planning, estimating, and control; quantity takeoff and pricing; labor and equipment estimates; estimating excavation and concrete; proposal preparation; scheduling; accounting and cost control. Students use contract documents to prepare detailed estimate. CEE 431 is prerequisite to CEE 531 and CEE 532. We recommend it be taken in the first term towards the M Eng and MSE degrees.

CEE 531 - Construction Cost Engineering

The objective of this course is to provide participants with the skills necessary to understand, direct, and employ important accounting, estimating, and cost control technologies in construction. Topics include cost engineering for construction organizations, projects, and operations; Construction financing; break even, profit, and cash flow analyses; capital budgeting. Equipment cost and procurement decisions; Construction financial accounting, cost accounting, cost control systems, data bases; Cost indices, parametric estimates, unit price proposals, measuring work and settling claims. Prerequisite: graduate standing and preceded or accompanied by CEE 431
 

CEE 633 - Construction Management Information Systems

The objective of this course is to learn how to automate some of the tasks that are performed by construction engineers and managers by taking advantage of modern application development systems and the programmability built into today’s engineering and productivity applications. Topics include design of computerized construction management information systems (MIS); Databases and information management systems for computer-aided construction engineering and management; Engineering data modeling issues, relational and object oriented models, and data mining for textual and graphical information systems. Students design and implement project control subsystems as an integrated MIS and apply to construction problems and case studies. Prerequisite: permission of instructor