Quality Management in Construction (3 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Learning outcomes:
-To expand earlier knowledge about project and quality management
-Students gain deeper understanding and more accurate information about project and quality management in the field of construction
Content
-Students will get know the practical project work and risk management role of a project manager
-team work
-risk management during construction process
Introduction to the construction quality management in phases of construction process
-construction management
-design phase
-production planning, construction
-quality control

Objective

For civil engineering students only. Organizing a project, reporting, inspection and control, ending a project. Quality control systems and their maintenance; securing quality in planning and during construction. Based on the lectures, the student draws up e.g. a quality assurance plan for a small building project, as well as a plan for organizing, supervising and controlling a project. There will be an individualized project for exchange students.

Materials

Study material:
-Lectures, exercises…, pdf => ITSLearning
-Project management in practice
-Risk management
-Quality management in construction; parts 1 & 2

Literature:
-Rakennustöiden laatu 2017, Rakennustieto
-RT-kortisto, Ratu-kortit
-other literature...

Teaching methods

Implementation:
-Lectures (english/finnish) 30 contact hours
-Self-studying (1 credit = 27 hours studying)
-Exercises

Exam schedules

No exams, only exercises

Completion alternatives

No

Student workload

Implementation:
-Lectures (english/finnish) 30 contact hours
-Self-studying (1 credit = 27 hours studying)
-Exercises

Evaluation methods and criteria

Completion of course:
-Participation in lectures / contact hours
-Making exercise works / presentation / feedback
-Small scale exercises … final personal exercise
-Grading scale: 0-5

Failed (0)

The student does not attend classes and does not do exercises

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The student demonstrates that he/she has mastered the subjects of the study course satisfactorily

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

The student demonstrates to master the subjects of the study course well and is able to apply them in practice

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student demonstrates to master the subjects of the study course excellently and is able to apply them in practice independently

Further information

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