ENCI363-10S1 (C) Semester One 2010

Infrastructure Management

12 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2010
End Date: Sunday, 27 June 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 7 March 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 23 May 2010

Description

Engineering economics; time and financial management; contracts and contract administration; management information systems; infrastructure systems.

This course covers the management of civil engineering infrastructure assets, taking account of the full range of life-cycle costs. It also covers the basics of economic appraisal, contracting arrangements, time scheduling and cost estimation.

Learning Outcomes

On completion you should:

- understand the essential charactistics of the various infrastructure systems, and the main issues associated with their construction, operation and maintenace;
- understand the main strengths and weaknesses of alternative contracting arrangements;
- be able to undertake appraisals of capital and maintenance investment options, taking account of short, medium and long term socio-economic costs and benefits, and financial constraints;
- be able to accurately estimate the costs of engineering work and to schedule the tasks involved to those costs are minimised;
- understand how to prioritise maintenance work for a network so the socio-economic benefits are maximised and impacts minimised.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator

Andre Dantas

Lecturers

David Scott DO NOT USE and Alan Nicholson

Guest Lecturer

Tony Mortensen

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Management Camp 25%
Final exam 65%
Infrastructure Asset Management Test 27 May 2008 10%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Banks, James H; Introduction to transportation engineering ; 2nd ed; McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Bennett, F. Lawrence; The management of engineering : human, quality, organizational, legal, and ethical aspects of professional practice ; Wiley, 1996.

Fricker, Jon D. , Whitford, Robert K; Fundamentals of transportation engineering : a multimodal systems approach ; Pearson Prentice Hall ;, 2004.

Ingenium (Organization) , New Zealand National Asset Management Steering Group., Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia; International infrastructure management manual ; Australia/New Zealand ed; Association of Local Government Engineering N.Z, 2002 (Medium: Other).

Pilcher, Roy; Principles of construction management ; 3rd ed.; McGraw-Hill Book Co, 1992.

Sullivan, William G. , Bontadelli, James A., Wicks, Elin M; Engineering economy ; 11th ed; Prentice Hall, 2000.

Notes

In addition to lectures and tutorials, this course will comprise the 2nd Pro Camp. The ‘Management Camp’ will be held during the mid-semester break (22-24 April)  and will involve students working in teams, applying the material covered during the first 18 lectures to a Civil Engineering project.  More information on the Camp will be given during the lectures.

Now no longer any pre-requisite.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $607.00

International fee $2,875.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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