CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY & WORKS MANAGEMENT
1. INTRODUCTION : Need for project planning & management, value engineering , time value of money, activity & event, bar chart, Milestone chart, uses & draw backs.
2. PERT : Construction of PERT network, time estimates, network analysis, forward pass & backward pass, slack, critical path, data reduction, suitability of PERT for research project, numerical problems.
3. CPM : Definitions, network construction, critical path, fundamental rules, determination of project schedule, activity time estimates, float types, their significance in project control, numerical problems.
4. COST ANALYSIS AND CONTRACT : Type of costs, cost time relationships, cost slopes, conducting a crash programme, determining the minimum total cost of project, flexible budgets, cost & quality control, profit planning control & decision making, cost accounting systems, numerical problems. Updating a project, when to update, time grid diagram, resource scheduling. planning of different components of civil engineering projects such as a house, workshop, dam, tunnel.
5. EARTH MOVING MACHINERY : Tractors, bull dozers, rippers, scrappers power shovels, dragline, hoes. Line diagram of each, sizes, output, uses, factors affecting selection of each equipment, economic life of equipment maintenance and repair cost. Hoisting & Transporting Equipments: Hosts, Winches, Cranes, Belt conveyors, Ropeways, trucks & Wagons.
6. CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT : Plants for grading, batching, mixing, types of mixers, concrete pumps, bitumen plants.