Building Site Technology and Building Machines (5cr)

Objective

Buiding Machines
The students are familiar with construction equipment, and are able to select appropriate equipment for a job, and know how to compare operating expenses and acquisition costs across different available equipment.
Building Site Technology
The students will learn to plan building-site assignments, assuring viability and good quality, and to understand the problems and methods of quality control.

Content

Buiding Machines
Acquisition and economics of construction equipment. Lifting and moving equipment. Earth excavation machines. Synchronization of machines.
Building Site Technology
The content and progress of production management, production design, general schedule, building stage and discipline planning, organization of work, procurement, machine and equipment planning, meetings, occupational safety.

Qualifications

Basics of Building
Building Site Technology

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Buiding Machines
Grade 1 when the student knows 40 % of the course contents.
Grade 5 when the student masters 85 % of the course contents.
Building Site Technology
Specified at the beginning of the course.