PROJECT MANAGEMENT

This module aims to develop the management skills of the students where it introduces students to the principles, techniques, managerial issues which form the process of project management. The area of study will focus in particular on project management in a construction context, but will also make considerable reference to the activity in other fields of commercial and business activity to emphasize the broad applicability of the principles.

PROJECT 1 . defining & documenting a project

This involves the application of the principles, issues and theories discussed thus far in the Project Management module, and their application into a simple construction project.

The objective of this project is as follows:

To understand the application of management techniques in the control and direction of project resources.
To appreciate the need for Project Management in a real project environment.
To understand the basic stages of project management in the construction industry.
To understand the basic roles of the different consultants in the construction industry.
To understand the use of "Success Criteria" in evaluating a project.

Architecture aims at Eternity

project management

PROJECT 1 . defining & documenting a project

This involves the application of the principles, issues and theories discussed thus far in the Project Management module, and their application into a simple construction project.

The objective of this project is as follows:

To understand the application of management techniques in the control and direction of project resources.

To appreciate the need for Project Management in a real project environment.

To understand the basic stages of project management in the construction industry.

To understand the basic roles of the different consultants in the construction industry.

To understand the use of "Success Criteria" in evaluating a project.

PROJECT 2 . documentation of medium-sized project

Report

Risk Analysis

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Gantt Chart