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 (some changes possible…)
-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 phase, design phase, production planning/construction phase, quality control on site

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

To be announced in the course.

Teaching methods

Study methods:
-Contact hours (lectures, small scale exercises, team work..)
-Self-studying
-Exercises reflecting the theory (presentation, feedback)

Exam schedules

The course is completed with assignments, there is no separate re-exam.

Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development

See. previous
-Finnish-speaking and exchange students in the group.
-Quality management in construction aims to promote sustainable development.

Completion alternatives

There is no method of selection

Student workload

The course includes three main exercises. Emphasis of assessment in personal
in the main training task.

Scope:
3 credits, about 30 contact hours => 2 contact hours / week
1 credit = 27 hours studying

Evaluation methods and criteria

Completion of course:
-participation in lectures / contact hours
-making main exercises reflecting the theory => presentation => feedback
-in addition, smaller exercises in class
Grading scale: 0-5

Failed (0)

Assignments or some assignment without being returned and presented. The answers to the assignments do not correspond to the assignment.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The answers to the assignments do not fully correspond to the assignment. Some of the assignments have been returned and submitted late.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

All assignments were completed according to the assignment and the assignments were presented on schedule. The student masters the theory of quality management and is able to bring it up in assignments.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

All assignments were completed according to the assignment and the assignments were presented on schedule. The student demonstrates the prevailing quality management theory commendably and is able to bring it up in the assignments.

Further information

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