Academic and Resource Planning Division

To: Dean, ARP Division Date:04.05.2017

Through: _____________________

Form for changing the description of a course

1. Name of Department and campus proposing the change: Civil Engineering, Hyderabad, Pilani, and
Dubai

2. Details of the course for which change in description (s) is (are) being sought:

S.NO. Course No. Name of Course L P U

CE F242 Construction Planning and Technology 3 0 3

3. Existing course description(write topics only):

Development of model based planning, control and reviewing civil engineering construction, network
techniques, CPM, PERT, LOB, network crashing and time cost trade off, resources allocations, valuation,
engineering economy and cost benefit analysis of project; principal building system as affected by
environmental, legal, material, and industrial constraints; interrelationship among the components of the
systems, functional requirement, development control rules, National building code 2005, planning and selection
of foundation systems, foundation construction, piling system, construction procedures, pile construction
problems, causes and remediation, construction of masonry work, floors, roofs, stairs, dam proofing and other
components of buildings and relevant code of practices, earthquake resistant construction of buildings,
computer applications in construction management, construction safety & health acts and management,
contracts, tender, estimating and costing.
4. Proposed course description:
Principal components of a building system and their interrelationships; functional planning and requirements of
a building and its components using relevant codes; building processes; types and construction of foundation
systems, masonry, walls, floors, roofs, vertical transportation, doors, windows, building finishes, plumbing
services, damp proofing; temporary supporting structures; introduction to planning and scheduling of projects;
construction project network analysis; Introduction to quantity estimation, costing and valuation; contracts,
tenders; engineering economy and cost benefit analysis of a project; introduction to building information
modeling; computer applications in construction management.
5. Justification for the change in course description:
Curriculum review experts and CCDCA observed that the existing course content is too large to be effectively
taught over 41-42 lectures, with adequate importance to the critical topics. Topics removed are earthquake
resistant building, construction safety & health acts and management.
6. Have the proposed changes been discussed in Departmental committee on academics (DCA ) and the
cross campus Departmental Committee on Academics (CCDCA)?
Yes. And Yes. Consensus reached.
Signature of Head of the department
[A signed hard copy of this form is to be submitted to campus Associate Dean, ARP for record. A
softcopy in MS word with file name as Department Name_Campus (eg. EEE_Pilani) to be sent to
arp@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in]