This course will introduce to students the principles, methods and tools required for the development and implementation of scheduling in the construction industry. This course will also introduce to students various programming and scheduling techniques suitable for planning of long, medium and short-term projects. Coursework is integrated with hands‐on utilization of scheduling software commonly used in the industry and students will develop skills to create a schedule of tasks and activities related to the construction of a building or other structures, to allocate appropriate resources to such construction activities, and to develop schedules of construction activities within the most optimum time and cost. Guest lecturers may be featured for certain topics.

CILO-1: An ability to apply the concept of planning and scheduling and recognize its relationship with resource (cost) management CILO-2: An ability to prepare a CPM schedule, calculate the schedule manually or by use of computer software CILO-3: An ability to evaluate the output from software, and present such analysis both to field personnel for implementation and to upper management for overview