Instructor: Andrew Wolfe	CTC-415 Construction Estimating & Scheduling
Office DON 1195	Spring 2009
315-792-7240 (W)	email: Andrew.Wolfe@sunyit.edu	315-733-9005 (H) before 10 pm

Reference: Gould, Frederick, Managing the Construction Process: Estimating, Scheduling, and Project Control, 3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2005

Associated General Contractors of America, Construction Planning & Scheduling, 1994

Objective: To teach students scheduling, and estimating theory and practice..

Goals:

1) Each student will be able to develop an estimate based on engineering drawings and specifications.

2) Each student will be able to use MS Project software to develop and manipulate a schedule.

2) Each student will be able to develop a schedule based upon estimates.

3) Each student will be able to manipulate a schedule based on resource allocation principles.

Week	Topic	Lab
Jan 19	Intro & Construction Project Management	Excel Spreadsheets
Jan 26	Estimating & Quantity Takeoffs	Quantity Takeoffs
Feb 2	More Quantity Takeoffs , Waste	Using R.S. Means
Feb 9	Estimating Site work
Feb 16	Estimating Site work, Estimating Structures	Exam 1
Feb 23	Activity Identification & Duration, Activity ID	Activity ID
Mar 2	Activity Network Development	Activity Network Development
Mar 9	Spring Break
Mar 16	Bar Charts and Gantt Charts	MS Project & Bar & Gantt Charts
Mar 23	Precedence Diagram Method	Precedence Diagrams
Mar 30	Reviewing & Analyzing Schedule	Exam 2
Apr 6	Short Interval Scheduling & Schedule Compression	AON Diagrams
Apr 13	Resource Planning	Project
Apr 20	Cost Planning, Cost of Safety	Project
Apr 27	LEEDS, Multi Tasking	Project
May 4	Final	Exam 3

Class Participation: Class Participation is worth 10% of the course grade. Attendance will not be taken, but you cannot participate if you are not present. Class participation includes: attendance, ability to answer questions in class, ability to work problems in class, being respectful of others in the class.

Homework: Homework is worth 10% of the course grade. Homework will be assigned during class. Homework is an individual effort. Select problems from the homework will be graded.

Exams: There will be three 1.5 hour exams given. Each exam is worth 15 % of the course grade. Exam problems are modeled on the homework and the lab projects. Exams are closed book, closed notes. Each student is allowed (1) 8.5" x 11.0" piece of paper with any formulae they wish to place on it - information must be written on paper - no photocopied or typed work. Cheating is not allowed and will result in an exam grade of zero.

Lab: The lab grade is worth 35% of your final grade. The lab grade consists of two parts.

Small projects - 10%

Final project - 90%.

The final project is due on the last day of class at the beginning of the class period. Late projects will be penalized 5 points per MINUTE late. Each group will be given one set of plans.

Project deliverables: A bid for the project. This will include an estimate, schedule for the project including critical path and floats, contingencies and bond costs. All special conditions, value engineering, and assumptions about the project need to be stated. The bid should include payment milestones and any up-front moneys requested. A bid template will be handed out when the project is assigned.

The course grade is based on the following breakdown of points.

3 - Exams 15% each, 45%

Class Participation 10%

Homework 10%

Lab 35%

Final Grading: The following is a guide to the grading scheme used on the final grades. The instructor reserves the right to lower the cutoff points.

A	A-	B+	B	B-	C+	C	C-	D
>93	90 - 92	87 - 89	83 - 86	80 - 82	77 - 79	73 - 76	70 - 72	60 - 69