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Architectural Projects Management and Economics

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    This course is an introduction to basics of project management and its main objectives. It scrutinizes the planning process in different phases of a project. It also previews the role of quality in the project multistage (technical investigation, confirming assurance steps, applications using computer). Moreover, it offers application on execution of urban and architectural projects.
  • Course Goals
  • Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • Climate Action

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Basics of project management and its objectives, Initial and running costs, The importance of feasibility studies, Land economics and marketing studies in making design decisions, Types of projects turnovers as well as administrative and environmental aspects, Skills for Planning and time scheduling of jobs through the evaluation of programs, Critical path method, “Gantt” chart, Cost-time analysis, progress curves and resource allocation, The “Entrepreneurship” definition, importance, and skills.
  • Arabic Description

    Basics of project management and its objectives, Initial and running costs, The importance of feasibility studies, Land economics and marketing studies in making design decisions, Types of projects turnovers as well as administrative and environmental aspects, Skills for Planning and time scheduling of jobs through the evaluation of programs, Critical path method, “Gantt” chart, Cost-time analysis, progress curves and resource allocation, The “Entrepreneurship” definition, importance, and skills.
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Student Activities (40 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 20% , tr.Self_learning 10% , tr.Seminar 10% ) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 1, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
  • a. Essential books (textbooks)
  • ● Baars Wouter, Project Management Handbook, Version 1.1, DANS – Data Archiving and Networked Services, The Hague, Netherlands, 2006.
  • ● Frederick E. Gould, Managing the Construction Process: Estimating, Scheduling, and Project Control, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, NJ, USA, 2005.
  • ● Michael Lefevre, Managing Design: Conversations, Project Controls, and Best Practices for Commercial Design and Construction Projects, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, USA, 2019.
  • ● Project Management Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)–Sixth Edition, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, PA, USA, 2017.
  • ● Timothy Kloppenborg, Kathryn Wells, Vittal Anantatmula, Contemporary Project Management, 4th edition, Cengage Learning, Mason, OH, USA, 2018.
  • b. Recommended books
  • ● Alan Griffith, Paul Stephenson & Paul Watson, "Management Systems for Construction", Longman, Harlow, UK, 2000.
  • ● Duncan Cartlidge, Construction Project Manager's Pocket Book, Taylor & Francis, London, UK, 2015.
  • ● Erling S. Andersen, Kristoffer V. Grude, Tor Haug, Goal Directed Project Management: Effective Techniques and Strategies, 4th Revised edition, Kogan Page, London, UK, 2017.
  • ● Hyttinen Kirsi, Project Management Handbook, Laurea Universities of Applied Sciences, Vantaa, Finland, 2017
  • ● John Buttelwerth, "Computer Integrated Construction Project Scheduling", Prentice Hall, New Jersey, NJ, USA, 2005
  • c. Periodicals, Web sites, … etc
  • ● http://www.pmi.org/