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Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management (TST)

By mastering the objectives of the Building Operations Management course the students get the principal knowledge of the construction process from the contractos´s point of view. An integral part of the acquired knowledge will be understanding of the activities performed by the contractors in pre-production, production and operational preparation and its relation to scheduling, resource planning and record keeping, every day administration and material activity of the operative management incl. knowledge of the principal safety rules and strategy of tender proceedings.

Knowledge of complete construction process and rights and obligations of individual subjects in construction incl. requirements of public hearing. Knowledge in the area of general construction preparation.

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1.Basic terms of the Commercial Code for the establishment and operation of construction companies, alternatives of obligation relations, parties in the construction, their right and obligations
2. Supplier systems of construction, Contract for Work (sub-contractor, ordering client), financing of constructions
3. Principals of successful management, inter-personal relationships in the management process, transformation of a specialist in a manager, motivation of managers and subordinates, control and operation features of general management principles, delegation of competence and responsibility
4. Specific features of building production, production plan, balance of sources
5. Organisation of construction companies with stress laid on production section and its links
6. Initial data files for construction management, realisation documentation, production and operation preparation
7. Passing over and take-over of the site, obligations of individual entities
8. Planning as an integral part of the management, operational plan and its link to production calculation and accounting files
9. Supporting sections of the construction management at the level of a company, dispatch, specialised centres, mechanisation
10. Work management and organisation on site, obligations of the main contractor´s site managers (chief site managers), contractor´s site managers, foremen
11. Agenda of the site manager, basic documents on the course of work on site, keeping of builder´s log, care for building production quality, quality inspection
12. Care for occupational safety and work hygiene from the point of view of the employer and employees
13. Acceptance procedure in relation to sub-contractors and to ordering client, invoicing and final accounting of construction

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Making the student acquainted with basic rules of construction company management and operation, its division, competences of individual departments. Daily routine, rights and obligations of the operational management of construction companies, documents important for their management activity, safety rules to be met. Pre-production, production and operation preparation of constructions. Bidding and tender proceeding in construction in the link to the activities of the contractor. Contacting of students with managers of particular construction companies with stress laid on their specific activities.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

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26 hours, compulsory

1. Division of the construction into individual construction sites, calculation of the measuring units and their number for the budget costs, construction classification into "JKSO" (individual classification of the constructions) and transfer into CZ-CC (classification of types of constructions). Price calculation for the individual construction units or the whole construction. 2. Requirements for the price calculation of the completion activity of the contractor and the costs connected with the building location. Calculation of the contractor's hourly rate. Elaboration of a calculation schedule (approximate) of the whole construction, use of supportive indicators and software tools. 3. Definition of the structure of a large and small construction enterprise – creation of a bond graph, comments about the advantages and disadvantages of these structures. 4. Composition of a work contract for the construction execution. 5. Construction site handover protocol elaboration, construction handover protocol elaboration - including the small defects and unfinished work, list of the necessary documents. 6. Field trip to a construction site with a special attention to the operative management activity. 7. Completion of a partial budget for a part of the object (at least 3 connected construction parts or technology stages). 8. Partial subsequent time-plan elaboration (bar chart, time-space graph, network graph) for one month for a part of the rough construction and at least 3 technology stages, for example earthworks, foundations, vertical constructions. Resource balance evaluation (manpower, material, mechanical and financial). 9. Operation plan for 2 weeks period from a previously completed schedule including the proposal for necessary resource and the mode of their securing. 10. Completion and contents of a control and trial plan for one month period or 3 technology stages for previously completed time advancement of the construction. 11. Elaboration of security risks and environmental plans of the construction for previously written time plan for 1 month period or 3 technology stages. 12. Elaboration of operational procedure on the construction for 2 weeks period in the building log book and writing in the introductory pages. Report elaboration from one inspection day. 13. Assignments check-up, credits.