Undergraduate Course: Infrastructure Management and Sustainability 3 (CIVE09018)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Civil |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course introduces students to the management of civil engineering from varying aspects. Four distinct areas are covered: construction safety management; construction, business and project management; sustainability management and transportation management, through four separate modules.
The course is structured to expose the students to modern professional practice and therefore benefit through lectures from practising engineers. The course further emphasises the importance of communication skills and provides the students an opportunity to improve their written and oral presentation skills. Health and safety management is an increasingly important aspect of civil engineering and this topic will be covered with industrial professionals. This course will also provide an opportunity for students to begin exploring sustainable development (SD) issues and to focus on the role and practices of engineers in creating a sustainable world. The course will provide an introduction to the field of transportation engineering, including mainly highway engineering with some railway engineering.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | YES: This course involves a number of sites visits and students must purchase appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (such as safety boots, hard hat, gloves, hi-vis vests, protective glasses) for these visits. Cost will be approximately £20-40 though students on the civil engineering programme may have purchased these in their second year. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
Throughout the semester there will be a series of site visits arranged and attendance at these is compulsory.
As visits will be conducted to live construction projects students must ensure they have their own safety boots. These can be purchased from the School of Engineering and Electronics at a cost of approx. £20. Continuing Civil & Environmental students will already have purchased these boots as part of their second year activities.
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| Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 44,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 18,
External Visit Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
124 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Exam Information |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course the student should be able to:
- describe the processes from the formulation of a concept through to construction on site;
- understand the behavioural aspects of safety and hazard management, including how people are aware of and respond to safety risks;
- be aware of the current UK legislation relating to health and safety in the workplace in general and within construction in particular;
- show the ability to carry out fundamental safety risk assessments, and appreciate how IT tools can be used to improve such tasks;
- understand the practices of health & safety management within contracting companies;
- appreciate the consequences of poor health and safety management;
- demonstrate an understanding of how a large contracting company operates;
- explore the meaning of sustainability and the implications of SD practices at a variety of scales;
- identify the numerous stakeholders and recognize their often conflicting priorities for a variety of issues;
- create an awareness of the triple bottom line considerations in a global market economy;
- introduce Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) guidelines and their impact and value;
-investigate the requirements for effective solutions to unsustainable practices beyond only technical considerations;
- describe the structure of long term transportation planning and appropriate surveys;
- undertake some analyses relating transport planning;
- describe aspects of railway engineering; and
- describe NDT surveys of bridges and undertake some simple analyses.
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Assessment Information
Student performances will be formally assessed using intermittent assessment and degree examination:
1. Intermittent assessment (coursework) (50%)
Four pieces of the student¿s work contribute to the assessment:
¿ H&S Risk Management Exercise (20 marks)
You will produce an individual report based on the Health & Safety Module that takes place in the latter part of the semester.
¿ Sustainability exercise (30 marks)
This is a group exercise covering the issues dealt with in the Sustainability issues module
2. Degree examination (50%)
The degree examination is held at the end of the Semester and consists of a single 2 hour exam in three sections, A, B and C. There are 5 questions in total from which 4 must be answered, at least one from each section.
¿ Section A will cover Health and Safety Management. 1 question will be set which must be answered i.e. this question is compulsory
¿ Section B will cover Construction and Project Management. 2 questions will be set from which at least 1 must be answered
¿ Section C will cover Transportation Management. 2 questions will be set from which at least 1 must be answered.
The pass mark for the course is 40%, aggregated on the whole course ¿ that is there is no requirement to pass every module. There will be no resit examination for this course except: for requirements for professional purposes; for those attempting the ordinary degree award; and for those who been allowed a further attempt as a result of valid special circumstances.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
Module 1: Construction and project management
L1 Introduction and Communication Skills
The course and its modules introduced. Communication in Infrastructure Management: Letters, Reports, Presentations. Coursework Introduction.
L2 History of engineering; the modern construction industry and civil engineering procedure
Origins; the Industrial Revolution and its consequences; modern times: rapid and technological change; specialisation. Sectors, characteristics, work force, project types, parties to a project, Client, designer, contractor, aims and responsibilities
L3 History of engineering; the modern construction industry and civil engineering procedure: continued
L4 ICE Talk
L5 To be confirmed
L6 Company organisation (Morrison Lecture)
Required elements of marketing, estimating and planning, design, buying, accounting, measurement and valuation, health and safety, personnel and training. Structure and aims, components, responsibilities.
L7 Estimating (Morrison Lecture)
Labour, plant, material, duration of contract, subcontractors, wastage, administrative procedures.
L8 Planning and programming (Morrison Lecture)
Planning, logistics, communication, integration, management information, measurement of progress, programme types, bar charts, linked bar charts, time /chainage diagram, network diagram, precedence diagram, line of balance schedule, site programmes.
L9-11 Temporary works (Morrison Lecture)
Contractual aspects, legal requirements, Codes of Practice and British Standards, costs, plant, scaffolding, excavation support, formwork, falsework.
L12 Execution of contract (Morrison Lecture)
Pre-contract meeting, setting-up site, personnel, start date, on-going administration, site administration manual, feed-back and administration, cost/value reconciliation, payment, measurement.
Module 2: Health and safety management (with Balfour Beatty)
L11 Introduction to safety management
Providing the context for the module this lecture will provide recent background to Health & Safety Development such as the ¿Safety Summit¿, 27 February 2001, HSE¿s report ¿Identification and management of risk in undergraduate construction courses¿ and the HSE/UK Government Strategy Statement ¿Revitalising Health & Safety¿.
L12 Introduction to site safety
Philip Matyear will introduce Site Safety from the point of view of Bovis LendLease¿s Safety Operations Co-Ordinator.
L13 Health & Safety legislation
General Health & Safety Legislation and the Health & safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Smaller construction legislation such as the Construction (Head Protection) Regulations and the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations. The Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007.
L14 Construction site safety 1
Method Statements and Operation Plans. An introduction to Risk Management. Working at heights; Case Studies and practical examples.
L15 Construction site safety 2
Excavations; Case Studies and practical examples.
L16 Construction site safety 3
Working with Plant. Working with Temporary Works
L17 Hazard identification
Introducing hazard identification as being the key to successful risk assessments.
L18 Risk management
The theory of risk including the five stages of risk management: identification, estimation, evaluation, response and monitoring. Case studies. An introduction to the Total-Safety safety risk management application.
L19 Risk management Continued
Module 3: Sustainability issues
L20 Introduction To Sustainability Issues
Course outline, Introduction
L21 Theory and Concepts of Sustainability
Context of the problem and scope of potential solutions
L22 Sustainable Development: A Valuable Business Strategy
Sustainability in practice in industry (Guest lecturer)
L23 The Role of the Engineer in creating a Sustainable Society
Problem solving, leadership, professional development
L24 Sustainable Engineering Solutions
Regulation, consultation and decision-making (Guest lecturer)
L25 Evaluating Sustainability
Measurement indices of sustainability (Guest lecturer)
Module 4: Transportation management
L26 Long-Term Transport Planning
Introduction, Traffic Planning & the environment.
L27 Transportation Surveys
Household interview surveys and roadside surveys
L28 Transportation Model Building -1
Trip Generation & Distribution, modal Split, and Traffic Assignment.
L29 Transportation Model Building -2
L30 Highway Capacity
Headway distributions, mean speeds, flow and density; Space mean and time mean speeds.
L31 Priority Control Junctions
Modelling; Conflicts; Gap acceptance; Merging; Areas of Collision.
L32 NDT procedures for Bridges, Roads & Railways
Radar, Sonics & Infra-Red Thermography
L33 Transportation Planning
Processes, systems and case-studies in the planning of highways and other transportation projects (Guest Lecture - Grontmij)
L34 Overview and revision
Revision of topics covered; Examination-style questions.
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Important
Civil Engineering Procedure, The Institution of Civil Engineers, Thomas Telford, 1986.
Civil Engineering: Supervision and Management, Twort, A.C., Rees, G.J. Arnold, 1995
The Ingenuity Gap, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Vintage, 2001
Suggested further reading
The Practice of Construction Management Barry Fryer BSP, 1990
Modern Construction Management Frank Harris, Ronald McCaffer BSP, 1990.
Effective Speaking, Christopher Turk E&FN Spon, 1991.
Highway Traffic Analysis and Design, R.J. Salter, MacMillan, 2nd edition, 1989
Highway Design and Construction, R.J. Salter, MacMillan, 2nd edition, 1988
Highway Construction & Maintenance, J. Watson, Longman Scientific & Technical, 2nd edition, 1994
The Design & Performance of Road Pavements, P Croney & D Croney, McGraw Hill, 3rd edition, 1997.
An Introduction to Sustainable Development, P Rogers et al, Earthscan, 2008
The Sustainability Handbook, W.R. Blackburn, Earthscan, 2008
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Simon Smith
Tel: (0131 6)50 7159
Email: Simon.Smith@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Tina Mcavoy
Tel: (0131 6)51 7080
Email: Tina.McAvoy@ed.ac.uk |
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