Structural Equipment & Construction Site Management

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of the course, students are expected to:

• Understand the different types of construction equipment and machines and their use.
• Understand the principles of construction site design and be able to design basic construction site technical provisions.
• Calculate the productivity of the basic construction machines, as well as the execution time – completion of an earthmoving project.
• Understand the use cost of construction machinery and calculate the cost of earthworks.
• Calculate the required number of basic earthmoving machinery so that the project is completed within the contractual deadline.
• Calculate the required number of construction machines for the basic earthworks, in order to limit the unproductive times of the machines.
• Understand the basic principles of health & safety of construction projects & sites.

 

General Competences

• Application of knowledge in practice.
• Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies.
• Project design and management.
• Decision making.
• Adapting to new situations

 

SYLLABUS

1. Overview of construction sites (construction categories, site characteristics, study of site layouts, stages and principles of site layout design, potential site installations, analysis – evaluation of construction site cases).
2. Overview of functional analysis (general principles, basic questions studied, key factors – (soil conversion factors, site employment rate, bucket fill factor, operating rate, etc.).
3. Life cycle analysis of soil material (compacted – loose – compressed) and connection with the respective earthmoving machinery.
4. Productivity overview (definition, measurement of productivity, principles – stages of analysis and recording of productivity in technical projects, productivity of construction machines, alternative ways of measuring and estimating productivity of construction machines – analytical methods, methods of rapid estimation according to Komatsu, Caterpillar, empirical methods).
5. Overview of construction machinery (general presentation) and analysis of basic earthmoving machinery (excavator, loader, dozer, transport vehicle, grader, compacter, scraper, lifting equipment, concrete production units etc). Presentation of the different types of machinery and equipment available, the uses they serve and the factors that influence the choice of the appropriate type.
6. Analysis and application of the method of rapid calculation of the productivity of the basic earthmoving machinery (excavator, loader, dozer and transport vehicle) according to the Komatsu methodology.
7. Analysis of the economics of construction machinery (cost of ownership and operating costs). Cost calculation applications.
8. Functional analysis applications (calculation of time for completion of earthworks and costing of technical projects). Analysis of combined works e.g. loading and transporting of soil material, calculating the number of the required combination of machines for standard combined activities (excavator – loader / loader – transport vehicle) in order to complete the project within the required time with the minimum non-productive time in construction machinery.
9. Overview of safety of technical works. Health & Safety issues at construction sites.

 

STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Language of evaluation: Greek
Methods of evaluation:
• Written exam at the end of the semester
• Examination of exercises. (max 10%)
• Mid-term examination (max 30%)

 

ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Petroutsatou Κ., Marinelli Μ. (2018). Construction equipment, functional analysis and cost of civil engineering projects. 2nd edition ISBN978-960-586-253-4. KRITIKI Publishing S.A.
2. Efraimidis Χ. (2002). Construction equipment, Athanassopoulos
3. Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering AACE (2010). “AACE International Recommended Practice No. 10S-90 – Cost Engineering Terminology”.
4. Burke R. (2010). Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Burke Pubishing.
5. Burke R. Project management, Principles & Techniques, KRITIKI PUBLISHING S.A.
6. Gransberg D. (2006). Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators and Owners, Taylor and Francis.
7. Hegazy T. (2002). Computer-Based Construction Project Management, Prentice-Hall.
8. Komatsu. Specifications & Application Handbook – Edition 30
9. Peurifoy, R. Oberlander G.D. (2014). Estimating Construction Costs, McGraw – Hill.