ENCI363-11S1 (C) Semester One 2011

Infrastructure Management

12 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2011
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 22 May 2011

Description

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

This course covers the management of civil engineering (including roads, railways, water supply and waste disposal), 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;
- to be able to identify and schedule the tasks involved in completing a project on time;
- 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;
- understand how to prioritise maintenance work for a network so the socio-economic benefits are maximised and impacts minimised.

Prerequisites

ENCI262

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Alan Nicholson

Lecturer

David Scott DO NOT USE

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Management Camp 25%
Final exam 65%
Engineering Economics Test 16 Mar 2011 15%
Infrastructure Asset Management Assignment 26 May 2011 5%


You cannot pass this course unless you achieve at least 40% of the marks available in the test plus final exam (i.e. 40% of 70%).

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

This course provides the opportunity to apply the engineering economics and project management material to a real project during the Management Camp, which is scheduled for 30 April – 2 May. During the camp, your ability to apply the concepts, principles and methods of engineering economics and project management will be assessed through a series of group activities and tasks.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $598.00

International fee $3,180.00

* 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 .

All ENCI363 Occurrences

  • ENCI363-11S1 (C) Semester One 2011