Construction Equipment Economics [grd1ем]
| Civil Engineering |
Auditory lectures with presentation technology. Methodological units are accompanied with appropriate descriptive or computational examples and real examples from practice. Solving practicable problems begins with a brief explanation and then students doing tasks individually or in small groups. Course website is available with literature
Introducing students to the economic parameters for construction equipment, learning the techniques for construction equipment selecting optimization and forming machine fleet on the project.
Competence of students to analyze economic parameters for construction machinery and to perform optimization of construction machinery selection process.
Construction machinery planning. Estimating the cost of construction machinery. The economic life of the machine , the average age of the machines in the fleet, the impact of age on the total cost of equipment. Strategic maintenance of construction machinery. Performance measurement of construction machinery. Estimating the cost of construction machines in time. Supply model of machinery. Optimization of construction machinery . Stochastic methods for assessing the productivity of construction machinery. Analysis of the machine working parameters according to the type of project ( horizontal and vertical type of project ) .
Exercises : Numerical problems are fully in accordance with program of lectures .
· Nunnaly, S., W., Managing Construction Equipment, Prentice Hall, USA, 2000.
· Schaufelberger, E., Johh, Construction Equipment Management, Prentice Hall, USA, 1999.
· Peurifoy, Robert L., Ledbetter B. William, Construction Planning, Equipment & Methods, Fourth Edition, Mc Grow Hill, 3rd ed. (673 pages), 2000.
· Douglas D. Gransberg, Calin M. Popescu, Richard C. Ryan, Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners, Taylor & Francis, USA, 2006.
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