Smart Construction. Inefficiencies associated with the traditional approaches to construction and intelligence requirements of the building lifecycle. This course aims to develop undergraduate students’ understanding of smart planning, design, and contracting practices, enabling technologies, and strategies for involving down-stream stakeholders in the design of buildings for constructability and maintainability. The course also provides students with hands-on experience with the implementation of digital infrastructure in enhancing productivity and safety of construction projects.
BC 3114
Building Systems Technology. Physical installation and integration of passive and active environmental control systems including: heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, acoustics, and plumbing.
CNST 5034
Wireless Sensing in Construction Management. Concepts, approaches, and implementation issues associated with data acquisition in the construction industry. The course equips students with hands-on technical capabilities of various sensing and modeling technologies. Students also have the opportunity to use machine learning techniques to model the sensor data.
Western Michigan University:
CCE 3330
Construction Contracts. Codes and Specification. Introduction to construction contracts; specifications; application of model codes to residential and commercial structures, nonstructural and structural plan review; fire codes, codes governing the installation of the electrical, plumbing and heating elements of the building; inspection techniques; and code administration.
CCE 4360
Construction Estimating, Bidding and Cost Control. Estimation of labor, material, equipment, and overhead costs; use of D4Cost, DProfiler and Navisworks, and RSmeans; bidding procedures and elements of construction cost control.
CCE 4380
Construction Project Management. Characteristics of construction industry project organizations, labor, material, and equipment utilization, construction productivity, value engineering; total quality management, constructability, construction safety, contract types; 3D coordination with BIM; use of sensing systems for work measurement.
CCE 5960
Fluids and Water Resources Engineering. Theoretical bases for fluid statics and dynamics, including the conservation of mass, energy, and momentum; Introduction to modeling of hydraulic systems; Pipe flow and open-channel hydraulics.
CCE 6310
Design and Analysis of Construction Operations. Measuring, modeling, analyzing and predicting the productivity of construction processes; Use of Unity3D, Civil3D; Sensitivity analysis for understanding the implications of project management decisions on the output of construction activities.
CCE 6320
Construction Project Control. Administration of construction contracts; financial control, cost control, schedule update and monitoring, integrated project management systems, and computer integrated construction; 3D coordination with BIM; use of sensing systems for work measurement.
CCE 6350
Project Cost Estimating. General overview of construction cost estimating. Techniques and procedures used for estimating cost of construction projects, which include cost estimating process; elements of project cost; conceptual and detailed cost estimation methods; risk assessment and range estimating. Computer applications for building construction cost estimating and infrastructure projects.
CE 6380
Cyber-Physical Systems in Construction. Comprehensive overview of how computing systems, sensing, and modeling technologies, are tightly integrated and coordinated with the physical construction process/infrastructure systems for enhanced monitoring and control; Concept of CPS, applications in other industry sectors, design methodologies and research directions in the field of application of CPS in the construction industry, with an emphasis on the design of the underlying computational architecture, how CPS requirements of predictability and reliability can lead to significant changes in the construction industry and the study state of the art solutions; development and experimentation of applications through the development of laboratory-scale prototypes.
CCE 6960
Sensing and Modeling in Construction Management. Comprehensive overview of the technical capabilities of various sensing (e.g., RFID, Video cameras, laser scanners) and modeling technologies (3D modeling, CAD, Building Information Modeling, Geographic Information Systems), and experience how these technologies can help construction project managers to achieve efficient and effective construction project planning, job site monitoring, and integrated cost-time-safety-quality management.