Construction management
The Construction Management is a branch of civil engineering . It includes the construction industry , construction technology and building law . The aim of construction management is to understand and optimize the entire construction process with its technical, economic and legal contexts (so-called construction process management ). The term construction company can also be used as construction execution instead of the entire project management and should not be confused with construction management.
Overview
The construction management covers all construction activities (building construction, civil engineering and special civil engineering) over the entire life cycle of the structures (planning, new construction, modernization, conversion and renovation as well as demolition, recycling and recultivation).
The fields of teaching and research in construction management are construction technology , construction and construction management , construction management and legal issues in construction. Construction management is an integral part of civil engineering studies at all German-speaking universities. At various universities, such as in Aachen , Berlin , Biberach , Osnabrück , Bielefeld, Dortmund , Dresden , Stuttgart , KIT Karlsruhe and HS Karlsruhe , construction management is offered as a special field of study.
The following core areas are assigned to the designated teaching and research fields:
- the construction technology the Bauverfahrenstechnik , the construction schedule , the site equipment , health and safety ( OSH ), IT in construction and the construction machinery ;
- In the construction industry, the calculation of construction prices, contract issues in the construction industry, tendering , awarding and billing of construction services (AVA), award and contract forms (e.g. unit price, hourly wage, general contractor or PPP contracts) as well as the structure and mechanisms of the construction market;
- the construction management , the project management (including the construction management ), the ergonomics , the Controlling the Baulogistik , the risk and quality management ;
- the planning , the project development , investment and financial planning, the planning and construction law .
The overarching knowledge areas of construction management include:
- the general fundamentals of corporate management , accounting , economics , sales and marketing , taxation and operations research ;
- the higher-level functions with turnkey construction , building in existing buildings, foreign construction, industrial construction , real estate management , real estate management , facility management (FM) and public-private partnership (PPP) projects ;
- the complementary knowledge and teaching areas with rhetoric , negotiation , language training, labor law and teamwork .
History of the construction industry
As early as the 18th century, the Göttingen professor Johann Beckmann had established technology as "a science of industrial arts and processes". In addition to agriculture, his theoretical work deals with the various trades, including the building trade. In addition to the procedural aspects, the business (economic) component was also taken into account.
With the increasing mechanization of construction in the 20th century, aspects of manufacturing technology, construction operations and business administration also moved into the field of knowledge in student training - initially as part of the established structural subjects.
At the civil engineering department of the Technical University of Dresden , Neuffer has been giving an independent lecture on "Construction Operations" since the early 1930s, which dealt with the problems of operating construction sites.
In the winter semester of 1927/28, the Faculty of Construction at what was then the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg was expanded to include the "Chair of Mechanical Engineering in Construction". Georg Garbotz was appointed to this chair, which after its name was still heavily oriented towards construction machinery . Garbotz, often referred to as the Nestor of the Construction Company, worked in Berlin until 1946. On September 1, 1950 , almost 60 years old, he took over the management of the newly established "Chair for Construction Machinery and Construction" at RWTH Aachen University . By resolution of the Council of Ministers of the former GDR and on the special initiative of Ernst Wolfgang Lewicki , the Institute for Construction Management was founded on September 1, 1955 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at what was then the Dresden University of Technology (today TU Dresden ). For the first time, this institute no longer included the term "construction machinery" in its name.
requirement
The Main Association of the German Construction Industry has determined in its annual statistical surveys that on average 18% of all civil engineering graduates complete their studies with a specialization in construction. The need for construction engineers in the construction industry is given as around 30%.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of HS Osnabrück: Bachelor's degree in Construction Management Dual
- ^ Website of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences: Bachelor's degree in civil engineering ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed October 9, 2010.
