Project life cycle – Types of Project Report - Organizational chart of a construction company - Role and responsibilities of Project Manager - Role of Project Management Consultants - Project management software 1) Create a new project and calendar for school building using Microsoft project.

Choice of Technology and Construction Method - Defining Work Tasks – Defining Precedence Relationships among Activities – Estimating Activity Durations – Estimating Resource Requirements for Work Activities – Tender - BoQ – Contract Types – Contract Agreement Experiment: 1) Schedule the substructure for a school building project. 2) Schedule the superstructure (G+1) for a school building project.

Construction Scheduling – CPM – PERT– Scheduling with Resource Constraints and Precedences – Crashing and Time/Cost Tradeoffs Experiment: 1) Add and assign the resources for the scheduled activities. 2) Update the work progress of the scheduled activities. 3) Tracking the work progress by comparing the work planned with work actually executed. 4) Generate the output of project schedule and Gantt chart.

The Project Budget- Forecasting for Activity Cost Control- Financial Accounting Systems and Cost Accounts- Control of Project Cash Flows- Schedule control- Schedule and Budget Updates

Planning for quality - Quality control – Quality Assurance – Quality standard – Planning for safety provisions - Analysis of construction hazards and accidents