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Construction Management Major

Overview

Taking the Construction Management Major will give you much greater depth of knowledge in this field along with breadth of skills across all disciplines in Civil Engineering. Your course of study in the Construction Management Major will include organisation and management, design and construction, the economics of construction projects and project administration systems. You will learn about infrastructure in large construction projects and gain skills in professional project management.

This major best aligns with the Civil stream.

Unit of study table

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session

Construction Management Major

Unit of study table
Complete 24 credit points of the following:
Select a minimum of 18 credit points from the following units of study:
CIVL3805
Project Scope, Time and Cost Management 		6    A CIVL2810 or CIVL1810
N QBUS2350, ENGG1850
Semester 2
CIVL4810
Mgmnt of People, Quality and Risk in PE 		6    A CIVL3805. Students are expected to have understood and applied basic tools for project scope, cost and time management for projects as taught in (CIVL3805)or equivalent courses.
 Semester 2
CIVL4813
Contracts Formulation and Management 		6    A CIVL3805. Students are expected to have grasped the concepts of basic legal and management principles and the understanding of construction and engineering terminologies. As there is no any prerequisite courses for this UoS, without prior knowledge student can perform exceptionally well with regular attendance and participation in course activities.
N CIVL3813 OR ENGG3854
Semester 2
CIVL4814
Project Procurement and Tendering 		6    A CIVL3805
Semester 2
CIVL4815
Project Formulation 		6    P CIVL3805 AND (CIVL3812 OR CIVL2812)
Semester 1
A maximum of 6 credit points from any other CIVL 3000-level, 4000-level or 5000-level unit from the Civil Engineering Stream Core or Specialist table may be taken.
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