Academy of Technical and
Art Applied Studies Belgrade

Construction Organization Course code: ORGR | 6 ECTS credits

Basic information
Level of Studies: Undergraduate applied studies
Year of Study: 3
Semester: 5
Requirements: Completed pre-exams from the courses: Construction equipment, Concrete structures 1, Metal and wood structures 1, Soil mechanics and foundation engineering
Goal: The course is organized in such a way that prospective construction engineers fully mastersolving organizational problems at construction sites and in production plants in accordance with the applicable legislation.
Outcome: The course provides understanding of process of structure construction, communication, methods, materials, systems, equipment, planning, scheduling, security, cost analysis, cost control; understanding of management thematic units such as economics, business, law, ethics, management, decision-making and optimization methods.
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
  1. Curriculum and syllabus of the course. History of construction organization.Theory of systems. Information systems. Map of processes and flow charts.
  2. Management. Management functions. Business operating system. Construction company. Organizational schemes. Conditions that affect the construction industry. External conditions. Conditions of supply.
  3. Monthly coefficient of utilization of working time. Site organization (slides). Wider range of machines. Narrower range of machines. Theoretical and practical effect. Annual fund of working time. Construction standards / standardization in construction.
  4. Calculation of needs in the labor force, machinery and material. Calculation of the number of workers-days and the number of working days.Construction site layout scheme.
  5. Safety and security systems at work. Site documentation. List of documents for technical inspection. Activities on the design. Types of projects. Changes of the documents and theirimpact on construction. Technical and plan documentation.
  6. Resources. Bill of Quantities and priced bill of quantities. Classification of construction works. Plants.
  7. Introduction to planning. Planning in the construction industry. Static and dynamic plans. Numerical dynamic plan. Gantt chart. Orthogonal plans. Cyclograms. Financial plan - S curve.
  8. Network planning. Structural analysis. Analysis of time. Optimization of network plans. Activities. Types of connections in network planning. Terms-early Gantt chart. Total and free time reserve. Design of network plan using the table. Activities: residential building / hall.
  9. Network planning - activities. Structural analysis. Forward – backward pass. Table calculations. Gantt charts. Cyclograms. Financial plan. PERT. Operation research in construction. Simplex method. Transport method. Computer processing of a network plan.
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
  1. The content of lectures transferred into practical application through exercises and practical exercises in teaching bases.
Textbooks and References
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures: 3
Practical classes: 3
Other types of classes: 0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
Points
activities during lectures
10
activities on practial excersises
30
seminary work
30
colloquium
0
Final exam
Points
Written exam
0
Oral exam
30