3 Credit hours (3 h lectures). The construction business and processes; project phases; managerial duties, responsibilities, and authorities; project planning: WBS, networking techniques, scheduling, resources profiling and leveling, cash flow projections and budgeting; project monitoring and directing, actual progress reporting, and updating the project plan; project control: earned value analysis of cost and schedule variance; evaluating performance and identifying areas of potential improvement; forecasting time and cost to complete and at completion; computer applications in project planning and control. Equipment: calculating equipment cost and estimating productivity, economic life, and process
production cost; optimizing process production and production cost.