Faculty of Civil Engineering / Standard Courses in Hungarian

Obligatory Subjects

Construction Management - Estimates

Construction Management - Contracting

Management in Construction

Labour Safety

Four Weeks Technical Experiences

Branch of  CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

Decision Supporting Methods

Performing Civil Engineering Projects

Organizing Assembly Works of Structures

Contracting in Construction

Engineering Economics

Founding and Managing Companies

Real-estate Development

Economy in Construction

Conditions, Themes, Examples

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Principles of Site Layout, Site Zones, Production Plants

Planning Site Layout ( locating and calculating temporary plants, supplies and structures ).

Collaborating parties in Construction and their roles; Basic Documents of  Building Sites and Processes.

Basics of Scheduling; Process identification, representations, tools and aims.

Machines at Concrete works, plants, time estimates.

Machines at Earthworks, plants, time estimates.

Mechanizing Foundation works and Materials Handling.

Cost estimates and pricing in Construction.

Preparing time estimates, schedules and site-layout plans for an individual engineering project

Preparing bills of quantities for an assigned set of a building jobs

Collaborating parties in Construction and their roles. Mechanization in Construction

Basics of  Scheduling. Site Layout. Cost estimates

• PERFORMANCE  DATA COLLECTION  (STANDARDS)  FOR  CONSTRUCTION, Outdraw by Bacher-Neszmély ( in Hungarian )
• CATALOG  OF  BUILDING  MACHINES, Vattai-Neszmélyi-Berecz ( in Hungarian )
• Bacher - Dr. Lánczos - Dr. Soós : Mechanization in Construction - I. ( in Hungarian )
• Dr. L. Soós : Construction Machines - I. ( in Hungarian )
• Dr. L. Soós : Construction Machines - II. ( in Hungarian )
• Dr. L. Soós : Lifts and Cranes ( in Hungarian )
• Bacher - Dr. Monori - Dr. Neszmélyi : Construction Management I/1 - Basics of  Scheduling ( in Hungarian )
• Dr. Kürti - Dr. Monori : Construction Management II - Site Layout ( in Hungarian )

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Cost Estimates, Pricing, Cost Factors.

The Process of  Investment. The Public Procurement System.

Basic Terms and Main Problems of  Graph Theory.

Network Techniques ( PERT^time, CPM^time, CPM^cost, MPM/PDM^time ), Terms of  Time-Analysis.

Time-, Resource- and Cost Management with Network Techniques, Algorithms, Documentation.

Decision Supporting Methods. Engineering Economics.

Cost Estimates, Pricing ( no overhead )

Call for Bids, Public Procurement System

Preparing Network Model of a Multiple Civil Engineering Project

SLIDES OF LECTURES,  Dr. Z. Vattai - Dr. E. Klafszky ( in Hungarian )

Dr. J. Gyulay : Activities of  Civil Engineers and of Architects in progressing investments ( in Hungarian )

Dr. J. Gyulay : Contracting via Tendering, The Public Procurement System ( in Hungarian )

Dr. Muzelák - Neuwirth : Cost Estimates and Pricing ( in Hungarian )

Bacher - Dr. Monori - Dr. Neszmélyi : Construction Management I/2 - Network Techniques ( in Hungarian )

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Planning and scheduling processes of engineering projects; considering technical preferences

Principles of  organization- and management theories; company strategies, organizational structures

Heading companies, "managing", "management"; main courses of management theories

Factors effecting on operations and management of organizations

Processes within organizations; managing organizational processes

Finance as driving force in life of companies; alternatives and preferences

Principles and tools of evaluating; evaluation in market companies

Purchasing and selling; marketing at companies; marketing management

Planning and scheduling production; production management; quality as driving philosophy

Innovation and development; expectations against planning and managing development; innovation management

Book-keeping and auditing at companies; controlling

Human resources at companies; human resource management; the effective manager; managerial behavior

Integrated processes at organizations; integrated systems of production and stockpiling; logistics at companies; change management

Tools of  management; management scenarios and softwares

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Basics of legalisation and administration; enforcing labour safety regulations

Basics of  labour safety; terminology

Regulating labour safety; specialities of  labour safety regulations; aims and principles of  Labour Safety Law

Tripartit manner of  labour safety; labour safety tasks of  government, of employers and of employees

Technical and human conditions of performances

Tools and ways of enforcing labour safety preferences

Safety regulation of construction; safety regulations of  basic technologies

Safety regulations of  lifting machines ( cranes )

Delegation system in labour safety; roles and responsibilities of labour safety representatives; the Labour Safety Committee; the Labour Safety Fund

The Labour Safety Authority

Liability in labour safety: liability of individuals

Liability in labour safety: accountability

 Dr. Gy. Bonifert : Labour Safety ( in Hungarian )

Complementary Information

Students would spent their courses at a company dealing with construction contracts, performances and/or management as junior engineers elaborating jobs fitting them. Based on preliminary consultations companies applied for ("suggested") by students are generally accepted though in cases when necessary the Department assists them to find appropriate firms. As well as experiences at Hungarian companies experiences spent at a foreign company or outside of  Hungary taking at least four weeks are accepted too ( e.g. IAESTE ).

Detailed information on administrating full-fillment of expectations on technical experiences is communicated on lectures during spring semester of the academic year. Students having been full-filled their obligations on technical experiences have to prepare a report of some 15 to 20 sheets that should be assessed and signed by the Department if admitted within the first two weeks of succeeding ( 9^th ) semester.

Branch  of  CONSTRUCTION  MANAGEMENT

As specific addendum on regulations on preliminary studies Application for and Certification of studies on main branch or on sub-branch of  CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT including visiting lectures of the branch is controlled in accordance with agreement of  EDUCATIONS' COMMITTEE OF FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING and of DEPARTMENT OF CONTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT as follows:

Sub-Branch of CONTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

• To certify studies on sub-branch of Construcion Management an overall studies of 15 Credits ( practically all ) is expected selected from set of subjects ( of alltogether 16 credits ) listed below.

• For to certify studies and to apply for a Diplom Work on main branch of Construcion Management on one hand an overall studies of 11 Credits is expected selected from set of subjects ( of alltogether 16 credits ) listed below, on the other hand studies of subjects STEEL SUPERSTRUCTURES ([BMEEOHS-SA1]7Cr) and REINFORCED CONCRETE SUPERSTRUCTURES ([BMEEOHS-SA2]7Cr) gesdtored by Department of Bridges and Structures is also expected. Courses of the latest two subjects are available in any semester with no limitations.

• Number of students attending courses of the branch is limited by the Department as follows: On courses available in any semester of the academic year: 30 students/course; On courses available in one semester of the academic year: 60 students/course. Figures include studenst selecting Contruction Management either as main- or as sub-branch.
• Number of students preparing any diploma work on Branch of Construction Management is limited in accordance with the agreement of FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING and of DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENET as follows: 30 students/academic year.
• Due to limitations on courses students of courses are selected from an extended register of applications according to their qualification indices calculated as Sum(Credit*Mark) considering their results in subjects gestored by the Department. Qualification indices of students are revised in each semester.
• Acceptance list of students' appllication gets announced before start of actual semester on advertisement board at the entrance of  the Department ( “Hallgatói tárgyfelvétel és elõzménylista" ).

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Basics of Graph Theory, Labelling Methods. (i) The Shortest Path - The Maximum Potential Problem, (ii) The Maximum Flow - The Minimum Cut Problem.

The Transportation Problem and it's Variants. A Hungarian Algorithm.

MPM Network Technique, Time- and Cost Model.

Terms of Floats, Their applications in practice.

Linear Programming. Production- and Sale Model.

Multi-Functional Decision Making. (Bridgman model, Arimoto-Blahut method).

Cluster Evaluation.

Stochastic models. Bayes-typed methods and models: (i) RAS method, (ii) Gravity model.

Time Value of Money, Equitations.

Cash-Flows, Net Present Value Analysis.

Internal Rate Of  Return.

Investment Optimization, Capital Allocation.

Risk Analysis, Assessing Likeliness.

Portfolio models.

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Inter-relations of technical documents and time estimates.

Conceptual questions of  time estimates.

Process composition, resources and quantities.

Up to date techniques for modelling time and preparing estimates.

Network techniques - in details.

Time estimates and associating documents.

Computer Aided Time estimates and resource allocations.

Site Management, Conceptual quesitions of Site Layout Planning.

Supplementaries and Plants on Construction Sites.

Temporary structures, stores and services.

Cost estimates of performance, Engineer's Price.

Multi-Project Management, Managing more sites simultaneously.

Combinatorical Models in Construction Management.

Experiences and Case Studies of Engineering Projects.

Preparing time and cost estimates together with site layout design of an engineering project assigned ( e.g. industrial hall, bridge, highway system )

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Development of prefabricated structures, functional elements, prefabricated units and joints.

Catching elements, catch-points for lifting and transporting ( planning elements considering on-site performance,  dynamics of temporary and construction loads ).

Supplementary structures, hangs, trusses, grabs, joints.

Questions of transporting large-scale elements ( selecting routes, wehicles, supplementary structures ).

Questions of temporary storages for prefabricated elements, site-management plans - I.

Surveying possibilities of and/or needs on pre-assembling. site-management plans - II.

Considerations of scheduling elements, Inter-relationship of schedule and of site layout.

Lifting individual pieces. Locating cranes at positioning (lifting) different types of elements.

Typical solutions of joining prefabricated elements.

Site management plans - III ( temporary roads, deposits of elements, manouvering and locating cranes ).

Technical documentations and technical reports of detailed schedules.

Detailed plans and estimates of erecting a prefabricated engineering structure ( e.g. industrial hall ) assigned

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Roles and communication of parties contributing in a construction project.

Tendering and contracting, Law of Public Procurements, International outsight / FIDIC.

Preparing for a construction project, Schemes, tools and information systems for bidding.

The Bid as a price, effecting factors. Roles of banks in life of a project.

Contracts, types and contents.

On-site documents ( Site records and surveys, bills and accounts ).

Payment systems, accounting, considering inflation.

Documents and processes of hand-over, Garantee, warranty and quality.

Preparing tender documents, such as call for a tender, and bid for a tender aiming to construct an engineering structure. Students should use anonym but real samples of tender documents of real projects from near past.

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Principles of Engineering Economics

The interest as a price for using foreign capital

Calculations on interest, present value analyses

Cash-Flow analysis, basic elemets (types) of cash-flows

Pay-back time and rate of return analyses

Numeric (economic) comparisions

Graphics in Engineering Economics

Considering taxation

Loan contracts, pay-back constructions

Risk, cost and benefit, principles of portfolio analysis

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Legal invironment of companies, fundamental laws, types of companies.

Ways and conditions of founding (strating up) a company.

Rules and regulations on book-keeping and on accounting.

Turnover of a company, monetary considerations.

Internal information system, tools of operative management.

Laws on taxation and on social insurences.

Terminating a company, bankruptcy, final settlement.

Experiences of prospering companies.

Preparing a case study discussing any engineering or managerial aspect of a real or of a theoretical company.

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Real-Estate Developmet and "Real-Estate Industry". Basic terms.

Real-Estate Agencies, Rents: Practices in Hungary and abroad.

Real-Estate Laws.

Basic Tools of Real-Estate Appraisals.

Feasibility Studies for Real-Estate Development Projects.

Managerial Bodies of Real-Estate Development Projects.

Developing Real-Estate Networks.

Facility Management.

Real-Estate Portfolios.

Computer Aided Facility Management ( SAP ).

Case Studies

Titles from the lectures and study room works

Basic terms, aims and tools of  "Construction Management".

Engineering plans and architectural designs, regulations. The Value Register

National Politicy of Architecture and of Construction, Regional Strategies.

Competition strategies on construction market. International comparision.

Regional investments. Councils of  Regional Developments.

Public and private organizations, Public Private Partnership

PR Activities. Initiating inhabitants for cooperating in developing regional development strategies.

Principles of Regional Development Projects, Integrated design, Sustainability, etc..

Conditions

     See: Branch of CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

Themes

Diplom Works gestored and tutored by the Department iu accordance with its speciality deal with questions of performing, managing and of decisioning in Construction Industry. The actual project to be elaborated by the student is usually selected or derived from living construction projects being started or being to be started ( to design the building itself is not included ) either in Hungary or abroad. Typical and optional subjects of the Diploma Works are: To develop time and cost estimates and site layout designs of a construction project being or being to be started ( such as: an office building, an industrial hall, a housing lot, an infrastructural investment, etc. ); Studying economic aspects, or questions of regulations or considerations of decisioning in Construction Industry; Developing methodology (software) and/or to prepare a case study or an analysis of an actual problem (development) in Construction Industry; etc..
Tutors of the Diploma Work are Lecturers (as "university" tutors) and Engineers or Managers (as "industrial" tutors) invited and responsible for the project selected.

Kecskemét, housing lot construction, time estimates and site layout plans, 1995

Vatican Chapel reconstruction, Budapest, technology and site layout plans, 1995

Budapest - Hegyeshalom railway line construction, sect. 91+59. Nádorkert bridge, organization plans, 1995

SKF store-basis construction, Budaörs, detailed plans of organization, 1995

Szombathely, OLADI housing lot Block L.7., dwelling house construction, detailed plans of performance, 1995

ATS Traffic Control Center construction, Budapest, Ferihegy airport, estimates and site layout plans, 1995

Székesfehérvár, shopping center ( PLAZA ) construction, plans of technology and of organization,1996

Paks Nuclear Power Station, Temporary Store construction, plans of technology and of organization, 1996

M5 highway construction, Kecskemét bypass, master schedule and site layout plan, 1996

METRO shopping center construction, Debrecen, detailed plans of organization, 1996

Budapest I. Hattyú str. 14., dwelling and office building construction, detailed plans of organization, 1996

Budapest XIII., Váci str., DUNA PLAZA shopping center, parking house construction, plans of organization, 1996

Budapest, Ferihegy II., Catering Building construction, detailed schedule and site layout plans, 1996

Budapest, XII. District, 1995 yearly real-estate turnover analysis ( Budakeszi ), 1996

Competition and cantracting in costruction, comparision of german and hungarian practice, 1997

Budapest, VI. Dist., Káldy Gy. str., apartman house construction, plans of technology and of organization, 1997

M3 highway construction, sect. 105,1 - 113,8 km, master schedule and site layout plans, 1997

AMP Hungary Ltd., Esztergom, Plant extension project, Phase III., plans of organization, 1997

Ferihegy Airport extension, Terminal B-II construction, plans of organization, 1997

ELTE South Block, organization plans and estimates for structural works, 1997

AUCHAN shopping center, detailed plans of organization for (prefabricated) strutural works, 1997

Terrapark, Building No 5 and No 6 construction, plans of organization, 1997

Veresegyház, Fõ sqr., shopping center construction, detailed plans of organization, 1997

Nagykovácsi, American International School, investment project, organization plans, 1999

Millenium Project, Building “B” reconstruction, estimates and site management plans for structural works, 2000

Circular overpath contruction,  M1-M7 highways, estimates and site managment plans, 2000

Budapest, Megyeri str., UTE Stadium reconstruction, detailed plans of organization, 2001

Budapest, “Forrásliget” housing lot, assigned building construction, detailed plans of organization, 2001