The Certificate program in Construction Management is comprised of 5 courses of 3 credit hours each. Each course contains a printed or online study guide with course overview, lecture notes, practice exercises, computer-scored multiple choice tests and hand-graded assignments. To complete the program, students must take 2 required courses and 3 electives.
B01 - Introduction to Construction
Processes, players, and practices in the construction industry. The history of construction; owners, the design team, and the contracting team; the sequence of a project; and communications and documentation in construction.
B08 - Construction Management
A capstone course in managing a construction project that provides in-depth coverage of project delivery systems, responsibility and authority, resident project representative's office responsibilities, records and reports, electronic project administration, specifications and drawings, construction law and labor relations, construction safety, meetings and negotiations, risk allocation and liability sharing, preconstruction operations, planning for construction, scheduling, construction operations, value engineering, measurement and payment, materials and workmanship, change orders and extra work, claims and disputes, and project closeout.
B02 - Construction Methods and Materials
Introduction to the materials and methods used in constructing commercial buildings. Covers foundations, using wood in construction, exterior and interior finishes, brick masonry, stone and concrete masonry, masonry load bearing wall construction, steel frame construction, site cast and precast concrete framing systems, roofing, glass, windows and doors, cladding systems, interior walls and partitions, ceilings, and floors.
B03 - Drawings and Specifications
An introduction to reading construction blueprints. Lines of construction, scales, types of surveys, off-site and site improvements, foundations and below-grade construction, the structure above grade, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, commercial blueprints, construction offices, manufacturing facilities, and warehouses.
B04 - Safety Planning and Administration
Introduction to the role of safety in the construction industry. Covers the cost of accidents, causes of accidents, ethics and safety, workers' compensation, OSHA compliance, detailed coverage of subparts A through Z of OSHA's Construction Standard, safety and health programs and policies, job safety and hazard analysis, accident reporting and record keeping, emergency response plans, total safety management, workplace violence, bloodborne pathogens, workplace stress, environmental safety, ISO 14000, and promoting safety.
B05 - Construction Surveying Fundamentals
Introduction to the use of surveys in commercial, residential, and road construction. Includes the fundamentals of surveying, distance measurement, leveling, angles and theodolites, total stations, traverse surveys and computations, geomatics, global positioning systems, control surveys, highway curves, highway construction surveys, municipal street surveys, pipeline and tunnel surveys, culvert and bridge surveys, building construction surveys, and quantity and final surveys.
B06 - Cost Estimating
Introduction to the process of estimating the full cost of construction projects. Covers contracts, bonds, insurance, specifications, overhead and contingencies, labor, equipment, excavation, concrete, masonry, metals, wood, thermal and moisture protection, doors and windows, finishes, electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and profit.
B07 - Project Scheduling
Introduction to planning and scheduling a construction project. Gantt charts, basic networks, the critical path method, precedence networks, resource allocation and leveling, schedule updating and project control, schedule compression, reports and presentations, and construction delay claims.
